{"product_id":"culture-and-health-isbn-9780470283554","title":"Culture and Health","description":"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.  Figures, Tables, and Exhibits.  \u003cp\u003eSpecial Features.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMedical Anthropology’s Perspectives.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Overviews.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpecial Features of the Text.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDedication.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Author.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE: APPLIED MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND HEALTH CARE.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCulture and Health.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCulture, Ethnomedicines, and Biomedicine.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCultural Competence in the Health Professions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConcepts of Health.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSystems Approaches to Health.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Summary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTWO: DISEASE, ILLNESS, SICKNESS, AND THE SICK ROLE.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExperience of Maladies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBiomedical Assumptions About Disease.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocial Models of Maladies and Diagnoses.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIllness and Sickness Accounts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Sick Role and Sickness Career.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAIDS as Disease, Sickness, and Illness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHealth Beliefs and Explanatory Models.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Summary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHREE: CULTURAL COMPETENCE IN HEALTH CARE.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCross-Cultural Adaptations in Health Care.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCultural Competence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnthropological Perspectives on Cross-Cultural Adaptation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConcepts of Culture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInterpersonal Skills for Intercultural Relations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpecialty Cross-Cultural Applications of Medical Anthropology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUsing Culture to Care for Patients and Providers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Summary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFOUR:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eCULTURAL SYSTEMS MODELS.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCultural Models for Health Assessment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCultural Systems Approaches to Health.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCultural Infrastructure, Structure, and Superstructure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInfrastructure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFamily Infl uences on Health and Development.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnderstanding Worldview and Symbolic Resources.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommunity Health Assessment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRapid Assessment, Response, and Evaluation (RARE).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Summary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFIVE: ETHNOMEDICAL SYSTEMS AND HEALTH CARE SECTORS.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePopular, Folk, and Professional Health Care Sectors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePopular-Sector Health Resources.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFolk Sectors and Ethnomedicines.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProfessional Healers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Summary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSIX: TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY AND INDIGENOUS PSYCHOLOGY.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCulture and Personality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCultural Concepts of Normalcy and Abnormalcy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePersonality and Self in Indigenous Psychology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePossession in Clinical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBiocultural Approaches to Indigenous Psychology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEthnomedical Theories of Illness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCross-Cultural Ethnomedical Syndromes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Summary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSEVEN: MEDICAL- ECOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO HEALTH.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMedical Ecology and Disease.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEvolutionary Adaptations and Health.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGenetic, Individual, and Cultural Adaptations to the Environment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpidemiology of Disease.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRacial and Ethnic Categories and Health.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTriune Brain Structures and Functions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEvolution of the Sickness-and-Healing Responses.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmotions in Biocultural Perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Summary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEIGHT: POLITICAL ECONOMY AND CRITICAL MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePolitical Economy Approaches to Health.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCritical Medical Anthropology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocial Conditions as Causes of Disease and Health.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocial Networks and Support.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMacrolevel Social Effects on Clinical Health.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChanging Health Through Public Policy and Community Involvement.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Summary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNINE: PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL DYNAMICS OF HEALTH.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCultural Healing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReligion, Ritual, and Symbolic Healing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStress Response.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlacebos and Placebo Effects.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePsychoneuroimmunology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMetaphoric Processes in Symbolic Healing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Summary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTEN: THE SHAMANIC PARADIGM OF ETHNOMEDICINE.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat Is Shamanism?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Integrative Mode of Consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNeurognostic Structures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBases for Shamanistic Therapies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShamanic Roots in Contemporary Religious Experiences and Healing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Summary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGLOSSARY.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eREFERENCES.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAME INDEX.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSUBJECT INDEX.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eMichael Winkelman,\u003c\/b\u003e MPH, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University and former Head of Sociocultural Anthropology. For 16 years he directed the Ethnographic Field School in Ensenada, BC, Mexico.  \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eCulture and Health\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"Winkelman amazes us once more with the quality and scope of his new book, Culture and Health: Applying Medical Anthropology, as he helps us understand the way that medical anthropology's biocultural approach expands the biomedical perspective—he covers Êa vast array of topics, including cultural Êcompetence, cultural systems models, cultural effect on biology, ethnomedicine and alternative medicine, and understanding health activities as cultural practices—a must have for the student, practitioner, or scholar!\"\u003cbr\u003e —Marlene Dobkin de Rios, PhD, associate clinical professor of psychiatry and human behavior, University of California, Irvine and professor emerita of anthropology, California State University, Fullerton\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is the most comprehensive, holistic, and practical text on medical anthropology I have read in my eighteen years of teaching and practice. It skillfully weaves together rich and clear explanations of all vital topics in medical anthropology with user-friendly practical application models and assessment instruments for easy use with self, patients, health care providers, and community members. The book is a medical anthropology gem\"\u003cbr\u003e —Mikel Hogan PhD, applied cultural anthropologist and professor and chair, Human Services Department, California State University, Fullerton\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In this thorough and well-constructed introduction to medical anthropology, Winkelman has provided a key resource for health sciences students, beginning researchers, and health professionals who are committed to a comprehensive perspective on the means by which culture—systems, models, beliefs, and practices—affect sickness and healing. The book will be of use to students studying the applications of the social sciences to health and health care, public health scientists wanting a broad view of the means by which social and cultural systems affect the health of communities and populations, and clinicians who wish to develop greater cultural competence in their relationships with patients and their families.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Craig R. Janes, PhD, professor, associate dean, and director, Global Health Faculty of Health Science, Simon Fraser University\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jossey-Bass","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989014003941,"sku":"NP9780470283554","price":74.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780470283554.jpg?v=1761782435","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/culture-and-health-isbn-9780470283554","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}