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Culture, health and lllness / Cecil G Helman.

By: Helman, Cecil G.
Publisher: London : Hodder Arnold, c2007Edition: 5th ed.Description: viii, 501 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.ISBN: 9780340914502 (pbk.).Subject(s): Medical anthropology | Social medicineDDC classification: 306.461
Contents:
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 oh 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 oh 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.