Healing our differences
Subtitle: the crisis of global health and the politics of identity
By: Collins O. Airhihenbuwa
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780742539815; 9780742539822
Subjects: World health; Social medicine; Identity (Psychology) -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-210) and index
Table of contents: title: The cultural politics of identity; title: To think locally and act globally?; title: Language elasticity: the intersection of the senses; title: Ethics and the politics of professionalism; title: Ethnicity and race: a new double consciousness?; title: Omon: the cultural meanings of childhood and youth identity; title: Listening to her eyes: where motherhood meets sisterhood; title: Healing illness and affirming health in African; title: The future of health promotion: the legacy of Paulo Freire; title: Spirituality: the site of the true otherness; title: In the valley of selfhood and mountains of cultures: contextualizing HIV/AIDS communications; title: Of culture and multiverse: renouncing the universal truth in health; title: The way forward