Culture, Health and Illness is the leading international textbook on the role of cultural and social factors in health, illness, and medical care. Since first published in 1984, it has been used in over 40 countries within universities, medical schools and nursing colleges. This new edition meets the ever-growing need for a clear starting point in understanding the clinical significance of cultural and social factors. The book addresses the complex interactions between health, illness and culture by setting out anthropological theory in a highly readable, jargon-free style and integrating this with the practice of health care using real-life examples and case histories. Fully revised throughout, the fifth edition has expanded its coverage of topics that are challenging both the patient and the carer's understanding of health and illness: poverty and inequality of healthcare, genetics, biotechnology, the internet and health, chronic diseases, drug-resistant infections, changes in nutrition and body image, medical care of migrants, medical technology, global pandemics such as AIDS and malaria, drug and alcohol dependence, and patients' 'languages of distress', a complex topic central to the doctor-patient relationship. In today's world of increasing cultural, religious and ethnic diversity of populations, Culture, Health and Illness is essential reading for students of medicine, nursing, psychiatry, public health, health education, international health and medical anthropology, across the globe.

Culture, Health and Illness, Fifth edition (Hodder Arnold Publication)

Politics & Social Sciences

Helman, Cecil

Anthropology

Hodder Arnold

Essays explore the myth, magic, and metaphors of medicine, discussing the link between high-tech medicine and phrases such as, "take heart," medieval ideas about certain organs being the seat of special emotions, and more

The Body of Frankenstein's Monster: Essays in Myth and Medicine

Social Sciences

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

BODY MYTHS

Religion & Spirituality

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Since the first edition of 'Culture, Health &amp; Illness was published in 1984, medical anthropology has grown enormously - as have its applications to a variety of different health problems. During this time the philosophy has adopted a more globalapproach to human health problems and in many countries there has been an upsurge of interest in the subject. International agencies such as the World Health Organisation are now also showing a greater interest in medical anthropology.

Culture Health & Illness 3Rd Ed

Medical Books

Administration & Medicine Economics

CRC-Press

Helman, Cecil. The Other Half of the Dream. Poetry. Prose Poetry. The Other Half of the Dream is a collection of prose poems that carry the reader into a parallel world of dreamlike possibilities. It's a surreal world of humor, absurdity and paranoia. The images drawn from this surreal world of humor, absuridy and paranoia represent, not just our unconscious dreams, but also the mysteries that lie at the very periphery of dream itself.

The Other Half of the Dream

Literature & Fiction

United States

Quale Press

Poetry. IRREGULAR NUMBERS OF BEASTS AND BIRDS is a collection of portraits, odes, and ruminations about life's major and minor disasters and recoveries. In vivid, unsentimental prose, Helman draws individual resonance from universal themes, and a sense of shared humanity that is drawn from the infinitesimally specific. Helman emphasizes the cyclical nature of life--the volume is divided into four sections based on seasons--as well as the human tendency to repeat the "same old stories" over and over again. At the same time, he reminds us that every lived moment is truly its own. "Subtle, funny, smart--Cecil Helman understand[s] something fundamental about the human condition, and regards it with compassion and warmth"--Cole Swenson.

Irregular Numbers of Beasts and Birds

Literary

Suburban Shaman: A Journey Through Medicine

Double Storey Books

Frankenstein. Werewolves. Dracula. These images aren't just imaginary creatures -- they're also powerful symbols of the body. The body can be thought of as a machine made up of parts like Frankenstein's monster, or as a creature ruled by animalistic urges, or as an entity that's vulnerable to infection from a diseased fiend. In "The Body of Frankenstein's Monster," Cecil Helman, M.D., expands our view of our bodies by exploring its cultural and artistic representations.

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