Cecil Helman

Culture, Health and Illness, Fifth edition (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Using real-life examples and case histories and a highly readable, jargon-free style, this volume addresses the complex interactions between health, illness, and culture. Integrating these issues with the practice of healthcare, the book addresses current concerns about the multi-cultural context of caring for patients. This edition-in color for the first time-includes coverage of poverty and inequality of healthcare, genetics, telemedicine, migration medicine, HIV/AIDS, obesity and malnutrition, and developments in medical technology. A companion website features extensive additional material and printable clinical questionnaires.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040059357
• Artikelnr.: 70018996

Autorenporträt

Cecil G Helman, Professor of Medical Anthropology, Brunel University; Senior Lecturer, Dept of Primary Care and Population Sciences, UCL, London, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the 5th Edition
1. Introduction: the scope of medical anthropology
2. The body: cultural definitions of anatomy and physiology
3. Diet and Nutrition
4. Caring and curing: the sectors of health care
5. Doctor-patient interactions
6. Gender and reproduction
7. Pain and culture
8. Culture and pharmacology: drugs, alcohol and tobacco
9. Ritual and the management of misfortune
10. Cross-cultural psychiatry
11. Cultural aspects of stress and suffering
12. Migration, globalization and health
13. Telemedicine and the Internet
14. New bodies, new selves: genetics and biotechnology
15. Cultural factors in epidemiology
16. The AIDS pandemic
17. Tropical diseases: malaria and leprosy
18. Medical anthropology and global health
19. New research methods in medical anthropology
Appendix: Journals and websites
Author index
Subject index