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The Resource The cultural context of health, illness, and medicine, Elisa J. Sobo and Martha O. Loustaunau
The cultural context of health, illness, and medicine, Elisa J. Sobo and Martha O. Loustaunau
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- Summary
- A "one size fits all" approach to health care does not work well, especially for America's extremely diverse population. This book provides a discussion of how and why a more flexible and culturally sensitive system of health care can, and must be, achieved. America is truly a world civilization, home to billions of immigrants from all around the globe. We came first by land, then sea, and now air as well, bringing with us a diversity of cultural traditions. What are the ramifications of this for the way we deliver health care? Anthropologist George Foster defined the first edition of this work as "a very readable introductory text dealing with the sociocultural aspects of health." With examples and updated scholarship, this second edition offers a guide to the practice of culturally sensitive health care. Readers will see America's biomedically dominated health care system in a new light as the book reveals the changes wrought by increasing cultural diversity, technological innovation, and developments in care delivery. Written by a sociologist and an anthropologist with direct, hands-on experience in the health services, this volume tracks culture's influence on and relationship to health, illness, and health-care delivery via an examination of social structure, medical systems, and the need for, and challenges to, culturally sensitive care. Cultural differences are situated against social-class differences and related health inequities, as well as different needs and challenges throughout the life course. In prescribing caring that is more holistic, culturally sensitive, and cost-effective, the work promotes awareness of pressing issues for health care professionals and the people they serve
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Extent
- xviii, 268 pages
- Note
- Martha Loustaunau is first named author on previous edition
- Contents
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- The concept of culture
- The health-related consequences of social structure
- Health and illness over the life course
- Therapeutic modalities : a cross-cultural perspective
- Biomedicine : emergence and evolution in cultural context
- Reforming medicine
- Developing cultural sensitivity
- Putting ideas into practice : complex contemporary challenges
- Isbn
- 9780313377617
- Label
- The cultural context of health, illness, and medicine
- Title
- The cultural context of health, illness, and medicine
- Statement of responsibility
- Elisa J. Sobo and Martha O. Loustaunau
- Subject
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- Anthropology -- United States
- Attitude to Health -- ethnology -- United States
- Attitude to Health -- ethnology -- United States
- Cultural Competency -- United States
- Cultural Competency -- United States
- Cultural Diversity -- United States
- Cultural Diversity -- United States
- Delivery of Health Care -- United States
- Delivery of Health Care -- United States
- Anthropology -- United States
- Gesundheitsverhalten
- Gesundheitswesen
- Kulturvergleich
- Medical anthropology
- Medical anthropology
- Social medicine
- Social medicine
- Sozialmedizin
- Ethnomedizin
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A "one size fits all" approach to health care does not work well, especially for America's extremely diverse population. This book provides a discussion of how and why a more flexible and culturally sensitive system of health care can, and must be, achieved. America is truly a world civilization, home to billions of immigrants from all around the globe. We came first by land, then sea, and now air as well, bringing with us a diversity of cultural traditions. What are the ramifications of this for the way we deliver health care? Anthropologist George Foster defined the first edition of this work as "a very readable introductory text dealing with the sociocultural aspects of health." With examples and updated scholarship, this second edition offers a guide to the practice of culturally sensitive health care. Readers will see America's biomedically dominated health care system in a new light as the book reveals the changes wrought by increasing cultural diversity, technological innovation, and developments in care delivery. Written by a sociologist and an anthropologist with direct, hands-on experience in the health services, this volume tracks culture's influence on and relationship to health, illness, and health-care delivery via an examination of social structure, medical systems, and the need for, and challenges to, culturally sensitive care. Cultural differences are situated against social-class differences and related health inequities, as well as different needs and challenges throughout the life course. In prescribing caring that is more holistic, culturally sensitive, and cost-effective, the work promotes awareness of pressing issues for health care professionals and the people they serve
- Cataloging source
- DNLM/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1963-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Sobo, Elisa Janine
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- GN296
- LC item number
- .L68 2010
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- NLM call number
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- 2011 I-481
- W 21
- NLM item number
- S677c 2010
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1938-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Loustaunau, Martha O.
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Medical anthropology
- Social medicine
- Cultural Competency
- Anthropology
- Attitude to Health
- Cultural Diversity
- Delivery of Health Care
- Medical anthropology
- Social medicine
- Sozialmedizin
- Ethnomedizin
- Gesundheitswesen
- Gesundheitsverhalten
- Kulturvergleich
- Label
- The cultural context of health, illness, and medicine, Elisa J. Sobo and Martha O. Loustaunau
- Note
- Martha Loustaunau is first named author on previous edition
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-254) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The concept of culture -- The health-related consequences of social structure -- Health and illness over the life course -- Therapeutic modalities : a cross-cultural perspective -- Biomedicine : emergence and evolution in cultural context -- Reforming medicine -- Developing cultural sensitivity -- Putting ideas into practice : complex contemporary challenges
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Extent
- xviii, 268 pages
- Isbn
- 9780313377617
- Isbn Type
- (eISBN)
- Lccn
- 2010014928
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)607465554
- (OCoLC)ocn607465554
- Label
- The cultural context of health, illness, and medicine, Elisa J. Sobo and Martha O. Loustaunau
- Note
- Martha Loustaunau is first named author on previous edition
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-254) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The concept of culture -- The health-related consequences of social structure -- Health and illness over the life course -- Therapeutic modalities : a cross-cultural perspective -- Biomedicine : emergence and evolution in cultural context -- Reforming medicine -- Developing cultural sensitivity -- Putting ideas into practice : complex contemporary challenges
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Extent
- xviii, 268 pages
- Isbn
- 9780313377617
- Isbn Type
- (eISBN)
- Lccn
- 2010014928
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)607465554
- (OCoLC)ocn607465554
Subject
- Anthropology -- United States
- Attitude to Health -- ethnology -- United States
- Attitude to Health -- ethnology -- United States
- Cultural Competency -- United States
- Cultural Competency -- United States
- Cultural Diversity -- United States
- Cultural Diversity -- United States
- Delivery of Health Care -- United States
- Delivery of Health Care -- United States
- Anthropology -- United States
- Gesundheitsverhalten
- Gesundheitswesen
- Kulturvergleich
- Medical anthropology
- Medical anthropology
- Social medicine
- Social medicine
- Sozialmedizin
- Ethnomedizin
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