Culture and health
Subtitle: applying medical anthropology
By: Michael Winkelman.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2009
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780470283554
Subjects: Medical anthropology; Social medicine; Culture; Health Services; Anthropology; Health Behavior -- ethnology; Medicine, Traditional
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Applied medical anthropology and health care; title: Disease, illness, sickness, and the sick role; title: Cultural competence in health care; title: Cultural systems models; title: Ethnomedical systems and health care sectors; title: Transcultural psychiatry and indigenous psychology; title: Medical-ecological approaches to health; title: Political economy and critical medical anthropology; title: Psychobiological dynamics of health; title: The shamanic paradyme of ethnomedicine.