The Cultural Context Of Health

Author : Elisa J. Sobo,Martha Oehmke Loustaunau
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780313377617

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The Cultural Context of Health, Illness, and Medicine by Elisa J. Sobo,Martha Oehmke Loustaunau Pdf

A "one size fits all" approach to health care doesn't work well, especially for America's extremely diverse population. This book provides a lively and accessible discussion of how and why a more flexible and culturally sensitive system of health care can—and must be—achieved. Notable anthropologist George Foster defined the first edition as "a very readable introductory text dealing with the sociocultural aspects of health," adding: "[T]he authors do a commendable job... . I have profited from reading The Cultural Context of Health, Illness, and Medicine". With engaging examples, minimal jargon, and updated scholarship, the second edition of The Cultural Context of Health, Illness, and Medicine offers a comprehensive guide to the practice of culturally sensitive health care. Readers will see America's biomedically dominated health care system in a new light as the book reveals the changes wrought by increasing cultural diversity, technological innovation, and developments in care delivery. Written by a sociologist and an anthropologist with direct, hands-on experience in the health services, the volume tracks culture's influence on and relationship to health, illness, and health-care delivery via an examination of social structure, medical systems, and the need for—and challenges to—culturally sensitive care. Cultural differences are situated against social-class differences and related health inequities, as well as different needs and challenges throughout the life course. In prescribing caring that is more holistic, culturally sensitive, and cost-effective, the work promotes awareness of pressing issues for health care professionals—and the people they serve.

Author : Malcolm MacLachlan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015040072418

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Culture and Health by Malcolm MacLachlan Pdf

Physical and mental symptoms often point beyond the individuals who experience them, to the communities and cultures to which they belong. In his exploration of the interplay between culture and health, MacLachlan emphasises the practical implications.

Author : Michael Worton,Wilson Tagoe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134056934

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National Healths by Michael Worton,Wilson Tagoe Pdf

In today's globalised world, it is increasingly important to understand the otherness of different societies and their beliefs, histories and practices. This book focuses on a burning cultural issue: how concepts and constructions of gender and sexuality impact upon health, medicine and healthcare. Starting from the premise that health is neither a universal nor a unitary concept, it offers a series of interdisciplinary analyses of what sickness and well-being have been, are and can be. The originality of this book is its cross-cultural and trans-historical approach. Bringing together specially commissioned work by both major critical voices and young scholars in fields ranging from anthropology and art history to philosophy, political science and sociology, this volume challenges many traditional assumptions about gender, medicine and health-care. Issues addressed include: the politics and realities of female genital mutilation; sex-work and migration; the portrayal of mothering in contemporary African writing; the representation of AIDS in literature, photography and the media; the place of gender in ancient Egyptian health papyri; the dramatisation of morality and sexual over-indulgence in Thai literature; the relationship between myths of menstruation and power in early modern England; the role of anger in traditional Chinese medicine; and the ways in which both disease and sexual identities were redefined by cholera in the nineteenth century. The wide-ranging Introduction provides a historical and theoretical framework for what is defined here as Cultural Medicine, whilst fifteen original essays demonstrate from different perspectives that health is not merely a physiological and medical issue, but also a cultural and ethical one. An invaluable research and study resource, this book is written in a clear and accessible style and will be of interest to the general reader as well as to students of all levels, to teachers of a wide range of disciplines, and to specialist researchers of cultural studies and of medicine.

Author : Malcolm MacLachlan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780470035689

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Culture and Health by Malcolm MacLachlan Pdf

Most Western health professionals practice in multicultural societies. The influence of culture on illness, health and rehabilitation is therefore very important. Despite this, most lower level health psychology texts skim over these differences and assume our traditional biomedical approach will be appropriate for all. In this completely revised and updated edition of a groundbreaking book, Malcolm MacLachlan redresses the balance by showing how social and cultural aspects interact with the purely physical: from assessment and treatment all the way through to effects on rehabilitation.

Author : Mark Cameron Edberg
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780763780456

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Essentials of Health, Culture, and Diversity by Mark Cameron Edberg Pdf

"This book provides students of public health with tools and perspectives for understanding the relationship between culture and health. Effective promotion programs cannot be realized without attention to the cultural context. As part of the Essentials Public Health series, this critical text introduces the concept of culture as a framework for understanding human behavior and health."--Back cover.

Author : Mora Claramita,Ardi Findyartini,Dujeepa D. Samarasekera,Hiroshi Nishigori
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789811672323

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Challenges and Opportunities in Health Professions Education by Mora Claramita,Ardi Findyartini,Dujeepa D. Samarasekera,Hiroshi Nishigori Pdf

This book addresses health professions educational challenges specific to non-Western cultures, implementing a shifting paradigm for educating future health professionals towards patient-centered care. While health professions education has received increasing attention in the last three decades, promoting student-centered learning principles pioneered by leaders in the medical community has, for the most part, remain rooted in the Western context. Building from Hofstede’s analysis of the phenomena of cultural dimensions, which underpin the way people build and maintain their relationships with others and influence social, economic, and political well-being across nations, this book demarcates the different cultural dimensions between East and West, applied to medical education. The respective ‘hierarchical’ and ‘collectivist’ cultural dimensions are unpacked in several studies stemming from non-western countries, with the capacity to positively influence healthcare education and services. The book provides new insights for researchers and health professional educators to understand how cultural context influences the input, processes, and output of health professionals’ education. Examples include how cultural context influences the ways in which students respond to teachers, how teachers giving feedback to students, and the challenges of peer feedback and group work. The authors also examine causes for student hesitation in proposing ideas, the pervasive cultural norm of maintaining harmony, the challenges of teamwork in clinical settings, the need to be sensitive to community health needs, the complexity of clinical decision making, and the challenge of how collectivist cultural values play into group dynamics. This book aims to advocate a more culturally-sensitive approach to educating health professionals, and will be relevant to both students and practitioners in numerous areas of public health and medical education.

Author : Elisabeth Vanderheiden,Claude-Hélène Mayer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319531007

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The Value of Shame by Elisabeth Vanderheiden,Claude-Hélène Mayer Pdf

This volume combines empirical research-based and theoretical perspectives on shame in cultural contexts and from socio-culturally different perspectives, providing new insights and a more comprehensive cultural base for contemporary research and practice in the context of shame. It examines shame from a positive psychology perspective, from the angle of defining the concept as a psychological and cultural construct, and with regard to practical perspectives on shame across cultures. The volume provides sound foundations for researchers and practitioners to develop new models, therapies and counseling practices to redefine and re-frame shame in a way that leads to strength, resilience and empowerment of the individual.

Author : Arthur Kleinman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520340848

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Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture by Arthur Kleinman Pdf

From the Preface, by Arthur Kleinman:Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture presents a theoretical framework for studying the relationship between medicine, psychiatry, and culture. That framework is principally illustrated by materials gathered in field research in Taiwan and, to a lesser extent, from materials gathered in similar research in Boston. The reader will find this book contains a dialectical tension between two reciprocally related orientations: it is both a cross-cultural (largely anthropological) perspective on the essential components of clinical care and a clinical perspective on anthropological studies of medicine and psychiatry. That dialectic is embodied in my own academic training and professional life, so that this book is a personal statement. I am a psychiatrist trained in anthropology. I have worked in library, field, and clinic on problems concerning medicine and psychiatry in Chinese culture. I teach cross-cultural psychiatry and medical anthropology, but I also practice and teach consultation psychiatry and take a clinical approach to my major cross-cultural teaching and research involvements. The theoretical framework elaborated in this book has been applied to all of those areas; in turn, they are used to illustrate the theory. Both the theory and its application embody the same dialectic. The purpose of this book is to advance both poles of that dialectic: to demonstrate the critical role of social science (especially anthropology and cross-cultural studies) in clinical medicine and psychiatry and to encourage study of clinical problems by anthropologists and other investigators involved in cross-cultural research.

Author : Naseer Dashti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Baluchi (Southwest Asian people)
ISBN : UOM:39015080547840

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The Cultural Context of Health by Naseer Dashti Pdf

Author : Mohan J. Dutta
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781509506057

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Communicating Health by Mohan J. Dutta Pdf

The culture-centred approach offered in this book argues that communication theorizing ought to locate culture at the centre of the communication process such that the theories are contextually embedded and co-constructed through dialogue with the cultural participants. The discussions in the book situate health communication within local contexts by looking at identities, meanings and experiences of health among community members, and locating them in the realm of the structures that constitute health. The culturecentred approach foregrounds the voices of cultural members in the co-constructions of health risks and in the articulation of health problems facing communities. Ultimately, the book provides theoretical and practical suggestions for developing a culture-centred understanding of health communication processes.

Author : WADE. PICKREN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367439093

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PSYCHOLOGY & HEALTH by WADE. PICKREN Pdf

Author : Scriven, Angela,Garman, Sebastian
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780335221509

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Public Health by Scriven, Angela,Garman, Sebastian Pdf

This important book makes a significant contribution to the emergent body of public health knowledge by examining debates around the social context of health, including key socio-economic, environmental and cultural factors

Author : Hardey , Michael
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1998-07-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780335198634

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The Social Context Of Health by Hardey , Michael Pdf

* In what way is health related to our sense of self-identity? * How do we make decisions about our health in an age of uncertainty? * Which developments in medical knowledge and the delivery of care change our ideas about health? The central theme running through this book is the essentially 'social' nature of health. This embraces the way medical knowledge emerged out of a specific set of historical and intellectual circumstances, and the shaping of the health professions by the cultural and political milieu of the nineteenth century. Like non-expert knowledge, the development and application of expert knowledge in health is embedded in social processes. In this accessible text the complex relationships between inequality, race, gender and other social divisions are examined and related to changes in health care. Problems central to the delivery of health care are highlighted and linked to challenges to established health-care professions and systems. Michael Hardey shows the way in which health has become part of our identity, and relates this to the increasing range of health advice and the constant choices available in terms of our health and lifestyles.

Author : James Burgess Waldram,Ann Herring,T. Kue Young
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780802085795

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Aboriginal Health in Canada by James Burgess Waldram,Ann Herring,T. Kue Young Pdf

Numerous studies, inquiries, and statistics accumulated over the years have demonstrated the poor health status of Aboriginal peoples relative to the Canadian population in general. Aboriginal Health in Canada is about the complex web of physiological, psychological, spiritual, historical, sociological, cultural, economic, and environmental factors that contribute to health and disease patterns among the Aboriginal peoples of Canada. The authors explore the evidence for changes in patterns of health and disease prior to and since European contact, up to the present. They discuss medical systems and the place of medicine within various Aboriginal cultures and trace the relationship between politics and the organization of health services for Aboriginal people. They also examine popular explanations for Aboriginal health patterns today, and emphasize the need to understand both the historical-cultural context of health issues, as well as the circumstances that give rise to variation in health problems and healing strategies in Aboriginal communities across the country. An overview of Aboriginal peoples in Canada provides a very general background for the non-specialist. Finally, contemporary Aboriginal healing traditions, the issue of self-determination and health care, and current trends in Aboriginal health issues are examined.

Author : Wilbert M. Gesler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Medical
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041095238

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The Cultural Geography of Health Care by Wilbert M. Gesler Pdf

Arguing that medical systems must be seen in a social context, Gesler (geography, U. of North Carolina) applies the concepts of cultural geography to health care and shows that in both developed and developing countries alike the social sciences can inform the medical sciences and make them more effective and less expensive. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR