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| Author | : Karen Willis |
| Publisher | : OUP Australia & New Zealand |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2011-07-21 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 9780195574623 |
Society, Culture and Health, 2nd Edition introduces sociology to students studying nursing, providing framework from which to consider issues such as chronic illness and disability, health in the media, and changing illness patterns in Australian society.
| Author | : Elizabeth Ettorre |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 245 |
| Release | : 2017-07-19 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 3319607863 |
This book traces the history of formative, enduring concepts, foundational in the development of the health disciplines. It explores existing literature, and subsequent contested applications. Feminist legacies are discussed with a clear message that early sociological and anthropological theories and debates remain valuable to scholars today. Chapters cover historical events and cultural practices from the standpoint of ‘difference’; formulate theories about the emergence of social issues and problems and discuss health and illness in light of cultural values and practices, social conditions, embodiment and emotions. This collection will be of great value to scholars of biomedicine, health and gender.
| Author | : Robert A. Hahn |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 408 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Anthropology, Cultural |
| ISBN | : 019511955X |
Cultural and social boundaries often separate those who participate in public health activities, and it is a major challenge to translate public health knowledge and technical capacity into public health action across these boundaries. This book provides an overview of anthropology and illustrates in 15 case studies how anthropological concepts and methods can help us understand and resolve diverse public health problems around the world. For example, one chapter shows how differences in concepts and terminology among patients, clinicians, and epidemiologists in a southwestern U.S. county hinder the control of epidemics. Another chapter examines reasons that Mexican farmers don't use protective equipment when spraying pesticides and suggests ways to increase use. Another examines the culture of international health agencies, demonstrates institutional values and practices that impede effective public health practice, and suggests issues that must be addressed to enhance institutional organization and process.; Each chapter characterizes a public health problem, describes methods used to analyse it, reviews results, and discusses implications; several chapters also describe and evaluate programs designed to address the problem on the basis of anthropological knowledge. The book provides practical models and indicates anthropological tools to translate public health knowledge and technical capacity into public health action.
| Author | : Benjamin C. Amick |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 402 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 9780195085068 |
How do some families create more healthful environments for their children? How do we explain the health status differences between men and women, blacks and whites, and different communities or cultures? How is stress generated in the workplace? What accounts for the persistent social class differences in mortality rates? Why do societies experience higher rates of mortality after economic recession? Such fundamental questions about the social determinants of health are discussed in depth in this wide-ranging and authoritative book. Well-known contributors from North America and Europe assess the evidence for the diverse ways by which society influences health and provide conceptual frameworks for understanding these relationships. The book opens with a broad review of research on the social environment's contribution to health status and then addresses particular social factors: the family, the community, race, gender, class, the economy, the workplace and culture. The concluding two chapters examine the contribution of medicine to the improved health of Americans and recast the health care policy debate in a broad social policy context.
| Author | : Janet M. Page-Reeves |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 461 |
| Release | : 2019-07-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1498559395 |
Well-Being as a Multidimensional Concept highlights the ways that culture and community influence concepts of wellness, the experience of well-being, and health outcomes. This book includes both theoretical conceptualizations and practice-based explorations from a multidisciplinary group of contributors, including distinguished, widely celebrated senior experts as well as emerging voices in the fields of health promotion, health research, clinical practice, community engagement, and health system policy. Using a social science approach, the contributors explore the interface among culture, community, and well-being in terms of theory and research frameworks; culture, community, and relationships; food; health systems; and collaboration, policy, messaging, and data. The chapters in this collection provide a broader understanding of well-being and its role as a culturally embedded and multidimensional concept. This collection furthers our ability to apprehend social and cultural constructs and dynamics that influence health and well-being and to better understand factors that contribute to or prevent health disparities.
| Author | : David S. Dalton |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2022 |
| Genre | : HISTORY |
| ISBN | : 9781683403258 |
"Illustrating the diversity of disciplines that intersect within global health studies, contributors to this volume explore the development and representation of public health in Latin American countries"--
| Author | : Bernard Jouanjean |
| Publisher | : Rawat Books |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 9788131603970 |
Health, Culture and Society establishes a link between human physiological functions and social representations. The book questions human behavior over the centuries, comparing select models found in China, France, and ancient India. It appears that the societies at high risk, such as modern societies in particular, develop four functional, extra-organic prostheses around which social constructions are built - namely metabolic, neuropsychic, immunological, and elimination. Those societies at low risk, like that of the former French regime, adopt a tripartite model like that of Dumezil. Yet, the ancient Indian social system, originally quadripartite, has evolved over the centuries towards a tripartite model. What are the reasons which prompted the ancient Indians to establish a system of social quadripartition? Was it for the sake of prevention? Were they theorists? If the Indians developed a social system based on the balance of functions, wouldn't it be possible to suggest a definition of prevention and to put forward the model of a health system based on both the management of the autonomous regulation of the body and its functions? What is the conclusion regarding the evolution of our society? Health, Culture and Society examines these questions.
| Author | : Jan van Dijk |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 166 |
| Release | : 2020-01-14 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1509534466 |
Contrary to optimistic visions of a free internet for all, the problem of the ‘digital divide’ – the disparity between those with access to internet technology and those without – has persisted for close to twenty-five years. In this textbook, Jan van Dijk considers the state of digital inequality and what we can do to tackle it. Through an accessible framework based on empirical research, he explores the motivations and challenges of seeking access and the development of requisite digital skills. He addresses key questions such as: Does digital inequality reduce or reinforce existing, traditional inequalities? Does it create new, previously unknown social inequalities? While digital inequality affects all aspects of society and the problem is here to stay, Van Dijk outlines policies we can put in place to mitigate it. The Digital Divide is required reading for students and scholars of media, communication, sociology, and related disciplines, as well as for policymakers.
| Author | : M. Lock |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 550 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9400927258 |
The culture of contemporary medicine is the object of investigation in this book; the meanings and values implicit in biomedical knowledge and practice and the social processes through which they are produced are examined through the use of specific case studies. The essays provide examples of how various facets of 20th century medicine, including edu cation, research, the creation of medical knowledge, the development and application of technology, and day to day medical practice, are per vaded by a value system characteristic of an industrial-capitalistic view of the world in which the idea that science represents an objective and value free body of knowledge is dominant. The authors of the essays are sociologists and anthropologists (in almost equal numbers); also included are papers by a social historian and by three physicians all of whom have steeped themselves in the social sci ences and humanities. This co-operative endeavor, which has necessi tated the breaking down of disciplinary barriers to some extent, is per haps indicative of a larger movement in the social sciences, one in which there is a searching for a middle ground between grand theory and attempts at universal explanations on the one hand, and the context-spe cific empiricism and relativistic accounts characteristic of many historical and anthropological analyses on the other.
