Culture, health, and illness /

Culture, health, and illness /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Helman, Cecil, 1944-2009
Edition:	5th ed.
Imprint:	London : Hodder Arnold ; New York, NY : Distributed in the U.S.A. by Oxford University Press, c2007.
Description:	viii, 501 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Medical anthropology. Social medicine. Social Medicine. Anthropology. Sociology, Medical. Medical anthropology. Social medicine.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7476692

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ISBN:	9780340914502 0340914505
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of 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
Author Index
Subject Index