Culture Health and Illness
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Culture, Health and Illness is the leading international textbook on the role of cultural and social factors in health, illness, and medical care. Since first published in 1984, it has been used in more than forty countries, in universities, medical schools, and nursing colleges. This new edition meets the ever-growing need for a clear starting point in understanding the clinical significance of cultural and social factors. Addressing the complex interactions between health, illness, and culture, this unique text sets out anthropological theory in a highly readable, jargon-free style and integrates it with the practice of health care using real-life examples and case histories.Features:* Addresses current concerns about the multicultural context of health care* Well supported by empirical examples and case studies from more than ninety countries* New coverage of poverty and inequality of health care, genetics, telemedicine, migration medicine, HIV/AIDS, obesity and malnutrition, and developments in medical technology* Features a free companion website that includes extensive additional material and printable clinical questionnaires: www.culturehealthandillness.com* In color for the first timeIn today's world of increasing cultural, religious, and ethnic diversity of populations, Culture, Health and Illness, Fifth Edition, is essential reading for students of medicine, nursing, psychiatry, public health, health education, international health, and medical anthropology, all across the globe.
1. Introduction: The Scope of Medical Anthropology2. The Body: Cultural Definitions of Anatomy and Physiology3. Diet and Nutrition4. Caring and Curing: The Sectors of Health Care5. Doctor-patient Interactions6. Gender and Reproduction7. Pain and Culture8. Culture and Pharmacology: Drugs, Alcohol and Tobacco9. Ritual and the Management of Misfortune10. Cross-cultural Psychiatry11. Cultural Aspects of Stress and Suffering12. Migration, Globalization and Health13. Telemedicine and the Internet14. New Bodies, New Selves: Genetics and Biotechnology15. Cultural Factors in Epidemiology16. The AIDS Pandemic17. Tropical Diseases: Malaria and Leprosy18. Medical Anthropology and Global Health19. New Research Methods in Medical AnthropologyAppendix: Journals and Websites Author Index Subject Index
