Hakutulokset: Sarja Culture, Illness and Healing
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The Context of Medicines in Developing Countries
Western pharmaceuticals are flooding the Third World. Injections, capsules and tablets are available in city markets and village shops, from 'traditional' practitioners and street …
The Culture-Bound Syndromes
In the last few years there has been a great revival of interest in culture-bound psychiatric syndromes. A spate of new papers has been published on well known and less familiar …
Normal and Abnormal Behavior in Chinese Culture
Our purpose in assembling the papers in this collection is to introduce readers to studies of normal and abnormal behavior in Chinese culture. We want to offer a sense o/what …
The Relevance of Social Science for Medicine
The central purpose of this book is to demonstrate the relevance of social science concepts, and the data derived from empirical research in those sciences, to problems in the …
Physicians of Western Medicine
After putting down this weighty (in all senses of the word) collection, the reader, be she or he physician or social scientist, will (or at least should) feel uncomfortable about …
Biomedicine Examined
The culture of contemporary medicine is the object of investigation in this book; the meanings and values implicit in biomedical knowledge and practice and the social processes …
The Cultural Context of Therapeutic Choice
This book examines the factors influencing women's choices of obstetrical care in a Bariba community in the People's Republic of Benin, West Africa. When selecting a research …
Culture and Retardation
Mental retardation in the United States is currently defined as " ... signif icantly subaverage general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive …
Anthropology and International Health
In this book I present a series of eleven essays written between 1978 and 1987 on subjects relevant to the anthropology of health and international health. The issues addressed in …
Social Science Perspectives on Medical Ethics
Medical or hio- ethics has in recent years been a growth industry. Journals, Centers and Associations devoted to the subject proliferate. Medical schools seem increasingly to be …
The Cultural Context of Therapeutic Choice
This book examines the factors influencing women's choices of obstetrical care in a Bariba community in the People's Republic of Benin, West Africa. When selecting a research …
Cultural Conceptions of Mental Health and Therapy
Within the past two decades, there has been an increased interest in the study of culture and mental health relationships. This interest has extended across many academic and …