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Culture, Health and Illness, Fifth edition
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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 over 40 countries within universities, medical schools and nursing colleges. This new edition meets the ever-growing need for a clear starting point in
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Book title
- Contents
- Preface
- Companion website
- 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