The anthropology of health and healing
By: Mari Womack
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9780759110434; 9780759110441; 9780759118614
Description: This book is the first text to take an integrative approach to the discipline of medical anthropology. In it, the author champions a practice of medicine that includes the maintenance of health as well as treatment of illness, emphasizing the importance of lifestyle and the life cycle.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-350) and index.
Table of contents: title: The psychobiology of health and healing --; title: Models of the body, the self, and the human experience --; title: Constructing gender: the body in social context --; title: The biology of psychology and the psychology of biology --; title: Metaphor, labeling theory, and the placebo effect --; title: Maintaining health and healing the whole person --; title: The human life cycle: coming of age --; title: The human life cycle: the reproductive years --; title: The human life cycle: growing old and growing good --; title: Lifestyle and health --; title: Models of diagnosis and treatment --; title: Biomedicine and the scientific approach --; title: Restoring the balance: Asian models of health and healing --; title: Calling on the spirits: shamans, sorcerers, and mediums --; title: The emerging field of integrative medicine --; title: Contemporary issues in health and healing --; title: The social context of epidemics --; title: Medicines, herbs, and dietary supplements --; title: Public policy and health-care delivery systems.