Author : Michael Winkelman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780470462614
Culture and Health by Michael Winkelman Pdf
Culture and Health offers an overview of different areas of culture and health, building on foundations of medical anthropology and health behavior theory. It shows how to address the challenges of cross-cultural medicine through interdisciplinary cultural-ecological models and personal and institutional developmental approaches to cross-cultural adaptation and competency. The book addresses the perspectives of clinically applied anthropology, trans-cultural psychiatry and the medical ecology, critical medical anthropology and symbolic paradigms as frameworks for enhanced comprehension of health and the medical encounter. Includes cultural case studies, applied vignettes, and self-assessments.