An Ethnography of Stress [electronic resource] : The Social Determinants of Health in Aboriginal Australia /
Burbank, V.author.
Health inequality is a global issue. This book examines the problem through an in-depth look at a remote Australian Aboriginal community characterized by a degree of premature morbidity and mortality similar to that in other disadvantaged populations. Its synthesis of cognitive anthropology with frameworks drawn from epidemiology, evolutionary theory, and social, psychological and biological sciences illuminates the actions, emotions, and stresses of daily life. While this analysis implicates structures and processes of inequality in the genesis of ill health, its focus remains on the people who suffer, grieve, and live with the dilemmas of an intercultural life.
Description based upon print version of record.
Coverpage; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Map 1; Chapter 1 Introduction: Using Social Determinants of Health, Using Ethnography; Chapter 2 At Numbulwar: Blackfellas and Whitefellas; Chapter 3 Life History and Real Life: Fetal Origins of Disease, Ethnography, and History; Chapter 4 Feeling Bad: Everyday Stress; Chapter 5 Identity; Chapter 6 Selves and Others; Chapter 7 Conclusion: A Tentative Answer to a Fundamental Epidemiological Question; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Health inequality is a global issue. This book examines the problem through an in-depth look at a remote Australian Aboriginal community characterized by a degree of premature morbidity and mortality similar to that in other disadvantaged populations. Its synthesis of cognitive anthropology with frameworks drawn from epidemiology, evolutionary theory, and social, psychological and biological sciences illuminates the actions, emotions, and stresses of daily life. While this analysis implicates structures and processes of inequality in the genesis of ill health, its focus remains on the people who suffer, grieve, and live with the dilemmas of an intercultural life.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Anthropology.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Sociology.
Ethnology.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Anthropology.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Sociology, general.
Social Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.