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Culture and Meaning in Health Services Research is a practical
guide to applying interpretive qualitative methods to pressing
healthcare delivery problems. A leading medical anthropologist who
has spent many years working in applied healthcare settings, Sobo
combines sophisticated theoretical insights and methodological
rigor with authentic, real-world examples and applications. In
addition to clearly explaining the nuanced practice of ethnography
and guiding the reader through specific methods that can be used in
focus groups or interviewing to yield useful findings, Sobo
considers the social relationships and power dynamics that
influence field entry, data ownership, research deliverables, and
authorship decisions. Crafted to communicate the importance of
culture and meaning across the many disciplines engaged in health
services research, this book is ideal for courses in such fields as
public health and health administration, nursing, anthropology,
health psychology, and sociology.
Culture and Meaning in Health Services Research is a practical
guide to applying interpretive qualitative methods to pressing
healthcare delivery problems. A leading medical anthropologist who
has spent many years working in applied healthcare settings, Sobo
combines sophisticated theoretical insights and methodological
rigor with authentic, real-world examples and applications. In
addition to clearly explaining the nuanced practice of ethnography
and guiding the reader through specific methods that can be used in
focus groups or interviewing to yield useful findings, Sobo
considers the social relationships and power dynamics that
influence field entry, data ownership, research deliverables, and
authorship decisions. Crafted to communicate the importance of
culture and meaning across the many disciplines engaged in health
services research, this book is ideal for courses in such fields as
public health and health administration, nursing, anthropology,
health psychology, and sociology.
This lively text by leading medical anthropologist Elisa J. Sobo
offers a unique, holistic approach to human diversity and rises to
the challenge of truly integrating biology and culture. The
inviting writing style and fascinating examples make important
ideas from complexity theory and epigenetics accessible to
students. In this second edition, the material has been updated to
reflect changes in both the scientific and socio-cultural
landscape, for example in relation to topics such as the microbiome
and transgender. Readers learn to conceptualize human biology and
culture concurrently-as an adaptive biocultural capacity that has
helped to produce the rich range of human diversity seen today.
With clearly structured topics, an extensive glossary and
suggestions for further reading, this text makes a complex,
interdisciplinary topic a joy to teach. Instructor resources
include an extensive test bank and a study guide.
The works of F. G. Bailey (1924-2020) provide a seminal template
for good ethnography. Central to this is Bailey's ability to
conceptually connect the well-described micro-contexts of
individual interactions to the macro-context of culture. Bailey's
core concerns - the tension between individual and collective
interests, the will to power, and the dialectics of social forces
which foster both collective solidarity as well as divisiveness and
discontent - are themes of universal interest; the beauty of his
work lies in his analyses of how these play out in local arenas
between real people. His models provide nuanced, yet explicit road
maps to analysing the different leadership styles of everyday
people and contemporary leaders. This volume seeks to inspire new
generations of anthropologists to revisit Bailey's seminal texts,
to help them navigate their way through the ethnographic thicket of
their own research. -- .
Contraception is an issue of considerable concern to a great many
heterosexually active people. Yet the impact of contraceptive
technologies in the world today, in particular their implications
for kinship, gender relations, and other aspects of social life,
receives relatively little scholarly attention.This book brings a
new perspective to the study of contraception, by collecting
together in one volume leading experts in the fields of
contraception, family planning and reproductive health.
Contributors look at the social, economic, political and cultural
contexts in which contraceptive providers and recipients make
decisions about whether and what forms of contraception to use.
User perspectives (whether those of recipients or providers of
contraceptive services) are taken seriously, as are the
perspectives of policy-makers and development experts. With its
in-depth, case-study approach, this challenging book will appeal to
practitioners and planners in the fields of family planning and
reproductive health, as well as to students and academics of
applied and medical anthropology, health studies, gender and
development studies, or anyone interested in the social, cultural
and ethical issues raised by contraceptive technologies.
Contraception is an issue of considerable concern to a great many
heterosexually active people. Yet the impact of contraceptive
technologies in the world today, in particular their implications
for kinship, gender relations, and other aspects of social life,
receives relatively little scholarly attention.
This book brings a new perspective to the study of contraception,
by collecting together in one volume leading experts in the fields
of contraception, family planning and reproductive health.
Contributors look at the social, economic, political and cultural
contexts in which contraceptive providers and recipients make
decisions about whether and what forms of contraception to use.
User perspectives (whether those of recipients or providers of
contraceptive services) are taken seriously, as are the
perspectives of policy-makers and development experts. With its
in-depth, case-study approach, this challenging book will appeal to
practitioners and planners in the fields of family planning and
reproductive health, as well as to students and academics of
applied and medical anthropology, health studies, gender and
development studies, or anyone interested in the social, cultural
and ethical issues raised by contraceptive technologies.
This lively text by leading medical anthropologist Elisa J. Sobo
offers a unique, holistic approach to human diversity and rises to
the challenge of truly integrating biology and culture. The
inviting writing style and fascinating examples make important
ideas from complexity theory and epigenetics accessible to
students. In this second edition, the material has been updated to
reflect changes in both the scientific and socio-cultural
landscape, for example in relation to topics such as the microbiome
and transgender. Readers learn to conceptualize human biology and
culture concurrently-as an adaptive biocultural capacity that has
helped to produce the rich range of human diversity seen today.
With clearly structured topics, an extensive glossary and
suggestions for further reading, this text makes a complex,
interdisciplinary topic a joy to teach. Instructor resources
include an extensive test bank and a study guide.
A "one size fits all" approach to health care doesn't work well,
especially for America's extremely diverse population. This book
provides a lively and accessible discussion of how and why a more
flexible and culturally sensitive system of health care can—and
must be—achieved. 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.
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.
Methods textbooks generally offer prescriptive advice on how to
perform certain techniques, how to develop specific strategies, how
to analyze your results. But, as all experienced ethnographers
know, this fine-sounding advice rarely provides ample guidance in
dealing with real people in real field settings. That is where this
casebook differs. Selecting many key methods regularly used by
anthropologists - participant observation, consensus analysis,
simple surveys, scaling, freelisting and triads, networks, decision
modeling- the editors commissioned scholars who have completed
studies using these techniques to describe them in the context of
real field work. Using cases from health, community politics,
family relations, and child development (among others) in settings
as diverse as an Arkansas college campus, a Mexican barrio, a Thai
village, and a Scottish business, the student is given a clear
understanding of the diversity of methods used by anthropologists
and the complexities surrounding their use.
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