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  • Suburban Shaman

    tales from medicine's frontline

    par Cecil Helman ...
    Medicine is not just about science. It's also all about stories, and about the mingling of narratives among doctors, and between them and their patients.' So writes Cecil Helman after 27 years as a family practitioner in and around London interlaced with training and research as a medical anthropologist, comparing a wide variety of medical systems and other forms of healing. This unique ... En savoir plus

    $7.69 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Body of Frankenstein's Monster

    Essays in Myth and Medicine

    par Cecil Helman ...
    Frankenstein. Werewolves. Dracula. These images aren't just imaginary creatures—they're also powerful symbols of the body. The body can be thought of as a machine made up of parts like Frankenstein's monster, or as a creature ruled by animalistic urges, or as an entity that's vulnerable to infection from a diseased fiend. In The Body of Frankenstein's Monster, Cecil Helman, M.D., expands our view ... En savoir plus

    $23.17 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Culture, Health and Illness, Fifth edition

    par Cecil Helman ...
    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 ... En savoir plus

    $105.80 CAD

  • Culture, Health and Illness

    An Introduction for Health Professionals

    par Cecil Helman ...
    Culture, Health and Illness: An Introduction for Health Professionals covers basic ideas and research in medical anthropology. The book starts by discussing the scope of medical anthropology and the cultural definitions of anatomy and physiology, including the body structure and its functions. The text describes the clinical significance of food in diet and nutrition, social and cultural aspects ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

  • Doctors and Patients - An Anthology

    Modifié par Cecil Helman ...
    This is a wonderful collection of stories about doctors and patients, including many by world-famous authors who were also physicians, such as Oliver Sacks, Anton Chekhov and Arthur Conan Doyle. Always moving, entertaining and informative, and sometimes troubling, these remarkable stories will appeal to anyone with an interest in health, illness and medical care. They also provide essential core ... En savoir plus

    $68.70 CAD

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  • Culture and Health

    Applying Medical Anthropology

    par Michael Winkelman ...
    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 ... En savoir plus

    $108.99 CAD

  • Negotiating the Pandemic

    Cultural, National, and Individual Constructions of COVID-19

    Modifié par Inayat Ali, Robbie Davis-Floyd ...
    Collections Livre 19 - Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology
    This book centers on negotiations around cultural, governmental, and individual constructions of COVID-19. It considers how the coronavirus pandemic has been negotiated in different cultures and countries, with the final part of the volume focusing on South Asia and Pakistan in particular. The chapters include auto-ethnographic accounts and ethnographic explorations that reflect upon experiences ... En savoir plus

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  • Defeating Autism

    A Damaging Delusion

    par Michael Fitzpatrick ...
    Autism: disease, disorder or difference?What causes autism – genes or environment?Can biomedical treatments cure autism, and are they safe?An increased public awareness of autism has resulted in a rising trend of diagnoses, creating the impression of an ‘epidemic’. Many parents of children newly diagnosed with autism have been impressed by plausible theories blaming vaccines and other ... En savoir plus

    $79.99 CAD

  • An Introduction to the Geography of Health

    par Helen Hazen, Peter Anthamatten ...
    In the second edition of An Introduction to the Geography of Health, Helen Hazen and Peter Anthamatten explore the ways in which geographic ideas and approaches can inform our understanding of health. The book’s focus on a broad range of physical and social factors that drive health in places and spaces offers students and scholars an important holistic perspective on the study of health in the ... En savoir plus

    $100.30 CAD

  • A Companion to Medical Anthropology

    Modifié par Merrill Singer, Pamela I. Erickson ...
    Collections series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
    A Companion to Medical Anthropology examines the current issues, controversies, and state of the field in medical anthropology today.Provides an expert view of the major topics and themes to concern the discipline since its founding in the 1960sWritten by leading international scholars in medical anthropologyCovers environmental health, global health, biotechnology, syndemics, nutrition, substance ... En savoir plus

    $57.99 CAD

  • An Anthropology of Biomedicine

    par Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Margaret M. Lock ...
    An Anthropology of Biomedicine is an exciting new introduction to biomedicine and its global implications. Focusing on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies bring about radical changes to societies at large, cultural anthropologist Margaret Lock and her co-author physician and medical anthropologist Vinh-Kim Nguyen develop and integrate the thesis that the human body in ... En savoir plus

    $63.99 CAD

  • Dimensions of Culture: Cross-Cultural Communications for Healthcare Professionals

    par Marcia Carteret ...
    In cross-cultural health care interactions, there are many situations where communication is challenging because patients and their families exhibit different values, beliefs, and behaviors from those of their American physicians. Physicians educated in western medicine, who work in the health care system in the United States, operate within a highly specific medical culture though they may not ... En savoir plus

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