Includes bibliographical references (p. [437]-460) and index.
Contents:
Applied medical anthropology and health care -- Disease, illness, sickness, and the sick role -- Cultural competence in health care -- Cultural systems models -- Ethnomedical systems and health care sectors -- Transcultural psychiatry and indigenous psychology -- Medical-ecological approaches to health -- Political economy and critical medical anthropology -- Psychobiological dynamics of health -- The shamanic paradigm of ethnomedicine.
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