Natalie Tobert

Cultural Perspectives on Mental Wellbeing (eBook, ePUB)

Spiritual Interpretations of Symptoms in Medical Practice

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As human migration brings an ever more diverse range of people, cultures and beliefs into contact, Western medical systems must adapt to cater for the different approaches it encounters towards illness, the body, gender, mental health and death.

Based upon training courses taught by the author to staff at hospitals, mental health professionals, and on degree courses, this complete resource provides an essential foundation for understanding the complex and manifold approaches to medicine and health around the world. An awareness of this diversity moreover allows healthcare professionals to better engage with their patients and offer them satisfactory care and support in the future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784503451
• Artikelnr.: 45970669

Autorenporträt

Natalie Tobert, PhD, is a medical anthropologist who has done original research in India, Sudan and the UK. She has been leading workshops and training on different cultural understandings of health for the past twenty years. Natalie lives in London.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. Preface. Part 1: Introduction. 1. Consensual Reality,
Spirituality and Religion. 2. Culture, Nationality and Ethnicity. 3.
Cultural Beliefs about Health and Illness. 4. The Human Body. 5. Beliefs
about Conception and Human Identity. 6. Women's Bodies and Human Behaviour.
7. Cultural U-turns and Changing Responses to Consensus. Part 2: 8.
Cultural Knowledge on Death and Dying. 9. Cultural Beliefs about Survival
Beyond Death. 10. Anomalous Experiences: A. Religious and Spiritual
Experiences. 11. Anomalous Experiences: B. NDE, OBE, ELE. 12. Anomalous
Experiences: C. Cultural Interpretations of Mental Health. 13. Anomalous
Experiences: D. Popular Uprising and Spiritual Awakening. 14. Anomalous
Experiences: E. Deliberate Shifts in Consciousness. 15. Why Address
Cultural Understandings and Academic Fixity?. 16. Acknowledging Dissonance
as a Way Forward. 17. Towards Positive Change. Bibliography.