The anthropology of health and healing /
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| Author / Creator: | Womack, Mari. |
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| Imprint: | Lanham, Md. : AltaMira Press, c2010. |
| Description: | xv, 367 p. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7916714 |
Table of Contents:
- The psychobiology of health and healing
- Models of the body, the self, and the human experience
- Constructing gender: the body in social context
- The biology of psychology and the psychology of biology
- Metaphor, labeling theory, and the placebo effect
- Maintaining health and healing the whole person
- The human life cycle: coming of age
- The human life cycle: the reproductive years
- The human life cycle: growing old and growing good
- Lifestyle and health
- Models of diagnosis and treatment
- Biomedicine and the scientific approach
- Restoring the balance: Asian models of health and healing
- Calling on the spirits: shamans, sorcerers, and mediums
- The emerging field of integrative medicine
- Contemporary issues in health and healing
- The social context of epidemics
- Medicines, herbs, and dietary supplements
- Public policy and health-care delivery systems.
