Society, health, and disease : transcultural perspectives /
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| Imprint: | Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1996. |
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| Description: | 345 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2442322 |
Table of Contents:
- I. The sociocultural context of health and disease
- 1. Culture, Parental Attitudes, and Child Health in Rural Peru
- 2. Transforming Society
- 3. Intrapsychic Autonomy and the Emotional Construction of Biocultural Illness: A Question of Balance
- 4. A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Filarial Disease in the Fiji Islands
- 5. The Demographic
- 6. Ecological and Macrolevel Influences on Illness in Northern Peru: Beyond the International Health Paradigm
- II. Sociopolitical constraints in health and health care
- 7. Inequalities in the Mexican National Health Care System: Problems in Managing Cancer in Southern Mexico
- 8. Utilization and Cost of Maternal Child Health Services in Belize
- 9. Hepatitis B in Taiwan and the United States: A Sociologic Analysis of Comparative Risk Factors and Efforts at Control
- III. The psychology of health and well-being
- 10. Early Retirement and Normal Male Identity: Assessing an Aspect of Quality of Life after Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
- 11. Oil Wells on Fire: A Study of Stress in Kuwait
- 12. The Medical Dignity of the Individual: A Cultural Exploration
- IV. The threat of aids
- 13. AIDS as a Globalizing Panic
- 14. Social Factors and Knowledge of HIV/AIDS in Vietnam
- 15. Sex Condoms and Risk of AIDS in Bangladesh
- 16. Women and AIDS in Africa: A Critical Review
- V. Emerging areas in international health
- 17. A Role for Genetic Epidemiology in the Development of International Health Care Programs for Soil-Transmitted Helminthiases
- 18. Domestic Violence Against Women: A Contemporary Issue in International Health
