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Worlds of Illness: Biographical and Cultural Perspectives on Health and Disease

Worlds of Illness: Biographical and Cultural Perspectives on Health and Disease


Paperback, 205 pages, release 1995-11-22
Alan Radley
Routledge
ISBN: 0415131529

The burden of sickness is having to live with it in the world of the healthy. Over the past 20 years the study of illness via the patient's experience has emerged as the dominant approach to understan…


Aboriginal Health in Canada: Historical, Cultural and Epidemiological Perspectives

Aboriginal Health in Canada: Historical, Cultural and Epidemiological Perspectives


Paperback, 334 pages, release 1999-12-15
T. Kue Young, D. Ann Herring, James B. Waldram
University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802068871

Numerous studies, inquiries and statistics accumulated over the years have demonstrated the poor health status of Aboriginal peoples relative to the Canadian population in general. Aboriginal Health i…


Cultivating Health: Cultural Perspectives on Promoting Health

Cultivating Health: Cultural Perspectives on Promoting Health


Hardcover, 250 pages, release 2000-12-01
Wiley
ISBN: 047197725X

How can HIV infection be reduced among commercial sex workers? · Why are alternative therapies becoming increasingly popular? · How can Eastern philosophies and therapies be integrated into Western th…


Cultural Perspectives on Reproductive Health

Cultural Perspectives on Reproductive Health


Hardcover, 344 pages, release 2001-10-25
Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199246890

International Studies in Demography
This volume explores the connections between reproductive health and culture, focusing on two broad questions: How does culture shape the ways in which reproductive events are associated with health o…

Associated words: community health centers

Aboriginal Health in Canada: Historical, Cultural and Epidemiological Perspectives

Aboriginal Health in Canada: Historical, Cultural and Epidemiological Perspectives


Paperback, 352 pages, release 2006-07-30
T. Kue Young, D. Ann Herring, James B. Waldram
University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802085792

…Relationship between politics and the organization of health services for Aboriginal people. They also examine popular explanations for Aboriginal health patterns today and emphasize the need to under…


Don't Kill Your Baby: Public Health and the Decline of Breastfeeding in the...

Don't Kill Your Baby: Public Health and the Decline of Breastfeeding in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries


Paperback, 290 pages, release 2001-12
Jacqueline H. Wolf
Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814250777

Women Cultural Social Perspectives

Review: Excellent history of the health service and the breast feeding
This is really a miraculous book. As a parent, and somebody interested in the health generally, I learnt very much. First from the research is unbelievable behind the book: The author has…


Concepts of Alzheimer Disease: Biological, Clinical and Cultural Perspectives

Concepts of Alzheimer Disease: Biological, Clinical and Cultural Perspectives


Paperback, 344 pages, release 2003-10-03
The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 0801877571

As the essays in this volume show, conceptualizing dementia has always been a complex process. With contributions from noted professionals in psychiatry, neurology, molecular biology, sociology, histo…

Review: Unusual book; history and modern state of Alzhiemer
This is an unusual book. The title should be taken literally: Draughts of the Alzheimer illness and from a wide row of fields, including historically, genetically, academically…


Concepts of Alzheimer Disease: Biological, Clinical and Cultural Perspectives

Concepts of Alzheimer Disease: Biological, Clinical and Cultural Perspectives


Hardcover, 344 pages, release 1999-12-10
The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 0801862337

…Development in the field, from the first case described by Alois Alzheimer in 1907 through groundbreaking work on the genetics of the disease. Essays examine not only the prominent role that biomedica…

Review: Unusual book; history and modern state of Alzhiemer
…Psychology A.D.) they are also issued to wide perspectives on A.D. which intrigue and anew (how the difference between A.D. and normal growing old or growing old or…


The Anthropology of Landscape: Perspectives on Place and Space

The Anthropology of Landscape: Perspectives on Place and Space


Paperback, 280 pages, release 1995-08-24
Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198280106

Oxford Studies in Social Cultural
Landscape has long had a submerged presence within anthropology, both as a framing device which informs the way the anthropologist brings his or her study into 'view' and as the meaning imputed by loc…

Alternative word list: mental issues in aging sourcebook

Must We Suffer Our Way to Death? - Cultural and Theological Perspectives on Death by Choice

Must We Suffer Our Way to Death? - Cultural and Theological Perspectives on Death by Choice


Hardcover, 355 pages, release 1996-08
Southern Methodist University Press
ISBN: 0870743929


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