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The Cultural Context of Health, Illness, and Medicine (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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The Cultural Context of Health, Illness, and Medicine (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Summarizing the vast literature on culture and caring in a lively
and jargon-free fashion, this book shows 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? Notable anthropologist George Foster
defined the first edition as "a very readable introductory text
dealing with the sociocultural aspects of health," adding: " T]he
authors do a commendable job... I have profited from reading The
Cultural Context of Health, Illness, and Medicine." With engaging
examples, minimal jargon, and updated scholarship, the second
edition of The Cultural Context of Health, Illness, and Medicine
offers a comprehensive 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, the 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.
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