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Culture, health, and illness
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Culture, health, and illness

Author: Cecil Helman
Publisher: London : Hodder Arnold ; New York, NY : Distributed in the United States of America by Oxford University Press, 2007.
Edition/Format: Book : English : 5th edView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Cecil Helman
ISBN: 9780340914502 0340914505
OCLC Number: 74966843
Description: viii, 501 p. : ill., col. maps ; 27 cm.
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 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.
Responsibility: Cecil G. Helman.

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