Medicine And Culture
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Medicine As Culture
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Author : Deborah Lupton
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2012-04-04
Medicine As Culture written by Deborah Lupton and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-04 with Social Science categories.
Lupton's newest edition of Medicine as Culture is more relevant than ever. Trudy Rudge, Professor of Nursing, University of Sydney A welcome update of a text that has become a mainstay of the medical sociologist's library. Alan Radley, Emeritus Professor of Social Psychology, Loughborough University Medicine as Culture introduces students to a broad range of cross-disciplinary theoretical perspectives, using examples that emphasize bodies and visual images. Lupton's core contrast between lay perspectives on illness and medical power is a useful beginning point for courses teaching health and illness from a socio-cultural perspective. Arthur Frank, Department of Sociology, University of Calgary Medicine as Culture is unlike any other sociological text on health and medicine. It combines perspectives drawn from a wide variety of disciplines including sociology, anthropology, social history, cultural geography, and media and cultural studies. The book explores the ways in which medicine and health care are sociocultural constructions, ranging from popular media and elite cultural representations of illness to the power dynamics of the doctor-patient relationship. The Third Edition has been updated to cover new areas of interest, including: - studies of space and place in relation to the body - actor-network theory as it is applied in research related to medicine - The internet and social media and how they contribute to lay health knowledge and patient support - complementary and alternative medicine - obesity and fat politics. Contextualising introductions and discussion points in every chapter makes Medicine as Culture, Third Edition a rigorous yet accessible text for students. Deborah Lupton is an independent sociologist and Honorary Associate in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney.
Medicine And Culture
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Author : Lynn Payer
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 1996-11-15
Medicine And Culture written by Lynn Payer and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-11-15 with Health & Fitness categories.
The author concludes that medical decisions are often based on cultural biases and philosophies, suggesting a revaluation of American medical practices is warranted.
Medicine Across Cultures
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Author : Helaine Selin
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2006-04-11
Medicine Across Cultures written by Helaine Selin and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-11 with Medical categories.
This work deals with the medical knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Indian, Egyptian, and Tibetan medicine, the book includes essays on comparing Chinese and western medicine and religion and medicine. Each essay is well illustrated and contains an extensive bibliography.
Medicine Culture
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Author : Lynn Payer
language : en
Publisher: Orion
Release Date : 1989
Medicine Culture written by Lynn Payer and has been published by Orion this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Germany (West) categories.
A classic comparative study of medicine and national culture, Medicine and Culture shows us that while doctors regard themselves as servants of science, they are often prisoners of custom.
Patients And Healers In The Context Of Culture
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Author : Arthur Kleinman
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1980
Patients And Healers In The Context Of Culture written by Arthur Kleinman and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Medical categories.
Patients and healers in the context of culture: an exploration of the borderland between anthropology, medicine, and psychiatry describes observations of clinical interviews between various medical practitioners, namely folk healers, temple medicine men, and Chinese style and Western style physicians, and their patients. It stresses the importance of adopting proper cultural perspectives, making one's interpretations within that framework, and relying on direct observation; and urges an integration of social and cultural methods into the routine training of doctors, so as to enable a more humane and appropriate clinical practice. Medical anthropology is rich with anecdote and description focused on one or another aspect of patients or diseases, practitioners or healing, symbolisms or religion. This book takes us beyond such details and provides an integrating theoretical framework, operational models, and a systematic methodology of study that will allow the clinician and investigator to avoid the quagmires of ethnocentricity and reductionist formulation. The material is based on ten years of comparative cross-cultural research of Chinese medical systems at the National Taiwan University, Harvard University, the University of Washington, and the National Institutes of Health.
Medicine And Culture
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Author : F. N. L. Poynter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Medicine And Culture written by F. N. L. Poynter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with categories.
The Cultural Context Of Health Illness And Medicine
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Author : Martha O. Loustaunau
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1997
The Cultural Context Of Health Illness And Medicine written by Martha O. Loustaunau and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Family & Relationships categories.
Loustaunau and Sobo demonstrate the ways in which cultural and social factors shape medicine and health care. After a discussion of culture, the social structure and the impact of poverty, class, gender, and family patterns on health, illness and care-seeking, they explain the similarities and differences of medical systems cross-culturally. The authors call for a more flexible and culturally sensitive system of health care that expresses caring in more holistic ways, and offer examples as to how this might be accomplished in the increasingly multicultural USA.
The Anthropology Of Medicine
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Author : Lola Romanucci-Ross
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1991
The Anthropology Of Medicine written by Lola Romanucci-Ross and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Psychology categories.
This revision of what now has become a classic text in medical anthropology contains a wealth of new material on subjects as diverse as aging, creativity, and ideology. It is both a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly growing field of medical anthropology and a reference work. The authors bring new perspectives to our understanding of both Western and non-Western medicine, from the biochemical and physiological aspects of health care in preindustrialized cultures to cultural and ideological factors inherent in past and present Western medical care.
Medicine As Culture
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Author : Deborah Lupton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Medicine As Culture written by Deborah Lupton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with categories.
Encyclopedia Of Medical Anthropology
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Author : Carol R. Ember
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2003-12-31
Encyclopedia Of Medical Anthropology written by Carol R. Ember and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-31 with Social Science categories.
Medical practitioners and the ordinary citizen are becoming more aware that we need to understand cultural variation in medical belief and practice. The more we know how health and disease are managed in different cultures, the more we can recognize what is "culture bound" in our own medical belief and practice. The Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology is unique because it is the first reference work to describe the cultural practices relevant to health in the world's cultures and to provide an overview of important topics in medical anthropology. No other single reference work comes close to marching the depth and breadth of information on the varying cultural background of health and illness around the world. More than 100 experts - anthropologists and other social scientists - have contributed their firsthand experience of medical cultures from around the world.
