Culture and Health: Applying Medical Anthropology

by Michael Winkelman

Culture and Health offers an overview of different areas of culture and health, building on foundations of medical anthropology and health behavior theory. It shows how to address the challenges of cross-cultural medicine through interdisciplinary cultural-ecological models and personal and institutional developmental approaches to cross-cultural adaptation and competency. The book addresses the perspectives of clinically applied anthropology, trans-cultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470283556
• ISBN13: 9780470283554
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.9" x 9.1"