ABSTRACT

Culture, Health and Illness is the leading international textbook on the role of cultural and social factors in health, illness, and medical care. Since first published in 1984, it has been used in over 40 countries within universities, medical schools and nursing colleges. This new edition meets the ever-growing need for a clear starting point in

chapter 3|29 pages

Diet and nutrition

chapter 5|35 pages

Doctor–patient interactions

chapter 6|29 pages

Gender and reproduction

chapter 7|11 pages

Pain and culture

chapter 9|21 pages

Ritual and the management of misfortune

chapter 10|43 pages

Cross-cultural psychiatry

chapter 11|16 pages

Cultural aspects of stress and suffering

chapter 12|30 pages

Migration, globalization and health

chapter 13|21 pages

Telemedicine and the Internet

chapter 15|20 pages

Cultural factors in epidemiology

chapter 16|20 pages

The AIDS pandemic

chapter 17|13 pages

Tropical diseases: malaria and leprosy

chapter 18|31 pages

Medical anthropology and global health

chapter 19|11 pages

New research methods in medical anthropology