Culture, Health and Illness is an introduction to the role of cultural and social factors in health and disease, showing how an understanding of these factors c
Bringing the hard-to-quantify aspects of lived experience to analysis, and emphasizing what might be lost in interventions if cultural insights are absent, this
Offering a trenchant analysis of the effect that culture has in determining our perceptions - and expectations - of health care, this provocative volume challen
This book traces the history of formative, enduring concepts, foundational in the development of the health disciplines. It explores existing literature, and su