Culture, Health and Disease : Social and cultural influences on health programmes in developing countries

ISBN-13: 9780415264303 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 152 str.

Margaret Read

Opis

Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1966 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

Spis treści

Part 1 Traditional systems of care in sickness; Chapter 1 Survival studies and health hazards; Chapter 2 Role of the kin group in illness; Chapter 3 The role of the traditional practitioner; Chapter 4 Traditional ideas about sickness and treatment; Part 2 Social groups, culture patterns, and health; Chapter 5 The human group and its integration; Chapter 6 Culture patterns and human groups; Chapter 7 Ritual, religion, and values in health practices; Part 3 The forward look and the backward glance; Chapter 8 New horizons; Chapter 9 Drugs, injections, and opening doors; Chapter 10 Channels of new ideas about health and sickness; Chapter 11 Implications for orientation and training;

O autorze

Edited by Read, Margaret