An ethnography of stress
Subtitle: the social determinants of health in aboriginal Australia
By: Victoria Katherine Burbank
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Culture, mind, and society; Culture, mind, and society
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780230110229
Subjects: Health and hygiene; Psychological Stress; Minority Health; Stress (Psychology); Social medicine; Ethnology; Socioeconomic Factors; Oceanic Ancestry Group; Case studies; Health; Indigenous peoples; Medical anthropology; Medical Sociology; Cultural Anthropology
Description: This compelling ethnography makes new inquiries into the "anthropology of stress." Focusing on the implications of premature morbidity and mortality in Numbulwar, a remote Australian Aboriginal community, this book examines the social determinants of health and how forms of self-conceptions can mediate, and perhaps exacerbate, stressful experiences. Engaging essential frameworks and topics in medical and psychological anthropology, Victoria Katherine Burbank draws important new conclusions about the social sources of suffering.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: -- ch. 1; title: Introduction: Using Social Determinants of Health, Using Ethnography -- -- ch. 2; title: At Numbulwar: Blackfellas and Whitefellas -- -- ch. 3; title: Life History and Real Life: Fetal Origins of Disease, Ethnography, and History -- -- ch. 4; title: Feeling Bad: Everyday Stress -- -- ch. 5; title: Identity -- -- ch. 6; title: Selves and Others -- -- ch. 7; title: Conclusion: A Tentative Answer to a Fundamental Epidemiological Question.