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Culture, health, and illness: an introduction for health professionals Publish date unknown, Wright. Edition Notes Includes bibliographical references p. Classifications Dewey Decimal Class H45 The Physical Object Pagination ix, p. Community Reviews 0 Feedback? Lists containing this Book. Loading Related Books. June 1, Edited by ImportBot. March 16, April 16, Edited by bgimpertBot. Cram Just the FACTS studyguides gives all of the outlines, highlights, and quizzes for your textbook with optional online comprehensive practice tests.
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Cultural Diversity, Mental Health and Psychiatry explores how and why black and minority ethnic communities have little confidence in mental health services. Research has been carried out by nurses , physicians , medical sociologists , anthropologists , and folklorists in the area of health and illness beliefs to discover and understand these folkways.
There is currently much criticism Spector , Ph. Nurse scholars continue to develop and refine a vast number of cultural theories, models, and assessment guides Generally speaking, Helman fails ter clinical communication will take place, to show how to specifically confront these thus improving health outcomes.
Ironically, the often- the 4th edition. New chapter topics segmentary manner in which ideas are pre- now covered include migration and global- sented can assist in reproducing biomed- ization, telemedicine and the Internet, the ical hegemony. These additional chap- ized disciplinary worlds of biomedicine and ters signal an important recognition by Hel- health professions education, where critical man that the interpretive dimension of med- and unreimbursable knowledge sits at the ical anthropology is insufficient in its ability margins.
Re- health problems that constitute the diverse markably, these two enormous subjects are field of medical anthropology today. Helman talks instead about the focused on validating alternate medical tra- impact of diet on cancer, recommending ditions and the newer medical anthropol- particular changes such as to eat more ogy focusing on human rights, violence, fruit rather than exploring cancer from a social justice, and structural inequality. That Helman capitalist culture. Balshem juxtaposed the when the book is winding down.
Physicians who follow have been but were not referenced to pro- Helman are unlikely to diagnose cancer and vide models for action. It is also surpris- other problems as the embodiment of capi- ing that Helman did not link this discussion talist social relations or the environment. There, he lists exactly as he this makes it a significant work.
Still, he did in the edition 94 bullet points that marginalizes critical issues that would make require epidemiological investigation, such his text more balanced. Take, as another as the relationship of occupations to disease, example, his discussion of iatrogenesis. It is the modes of human waste dispersal, and not until page 96 that Helman references whether personal hygiene is neglected or en- Ivan Illich, and when he does so, the sen- couraged.
Required is more than a laundry tences are sparse. He dismisses Illich by re- list. But munt Bauman, Polity Press, For experience, and behave in the world. Ideas example, few emergency physicians know of culture as struggle, resistance, and con- that a typical CT scan of the chest is equiv- testation over power are not part of Hel- alent to chest x-rays. But culture These shortcomings notwithstanding, is not just a spoon making lucky dips into when it comes to discussing the impact a diverse set of medical ice cream flavors.
He provides an excellent dis- mamentarium of cultural strategies—some cussion of the placebo effect and the no- of which are intended to defeat or at least cebo effect. For rected downward to the flesh of the vic- example Helman mentions Daniel Moer- tims, not upward to the powerful. She endeavors to give them voice and labor theory of value, the ongoing history she also identifies reasons for their silenc- of Western imperialism, the growing proto- ing. Dossa links her efforts to give these fascism of our age, and revolutionary move- woman a voice to a generations-old tradi- ments to contest domination are paramount tion among Iranians of expressing experi- concerns for many medical anthropologists.
She does ters. Four of these inter- the idea of medical anthropology. There is much to say positive about contributions this book aims to make. One this book. Parin Dossa. Yet, this established co-relation be- tween mental health and social factors has Sarah J.
She character- I was disappointed. Emily K. New p. The more a myth excites the such as discrimination enacted toward them public imaginary, the more uncontrollable it by non-Iranian Canadians and indifference will be. Abel begins her historical from the health care bureaucracy. LA was recast as an ogy overall, feminist ethnography and epis- ideal place to recuperate from consumptive temology, as well as medical anthropology. Before long, however, the boosters felt She knows the literature and marshals it overrun by tuberculosis cases.
As the book engages theory In their imaginary, those who were meant throughout, I would recommend it primar- to flow in and fill the spalike sanatoria were ily to upper-division undergraduates and white men of means. Arriving with plenty graduate students as well as professionals of money and terribly ill after long rail jour- interested in the themes discussed.
As a reader, wide U. She analyzes, too, what is ab- tive composite reality of race. In response, sent from the textual data she discovers— public health administrators, caregivers, what one might have expected would be un- and other officials—including journalists— der the purview of public health officials and perpetrated unjust and unwise policies that health care providers: an ethics of service to established non treatment regimes dedi- human beings and a practical approach to cated to practices of excluding the indigent reducing disease transmission.
By relating sick. Jews, Filipinos, blacks, and the destitute of Two themes emerge as unique strengths any race, religion, or age, in good times and of the book. Woven through this story, focused county health care institutions and given the mostly on male TB sufferers who migrated least care when allowed to enter.
For example, women were al- These materials allow Abel to weave other lowed to become nurses but not doctors clearly gendered voices with hers thereby and black women had to overcome attempts providing perspectives in counterpoint to by their white counterparts to exclude them tactical maneuvers of institutional powers. Nor were these institutions without overcome TB and spent their lives manag- characters, some of whom come alive al- ing the stigma they helped to create.
There most too much, like Edyth Tate-Thompson, was never enough money in city coffers, director of the Bureau of Tuberculosis, a there were no pharmaceutical cures, and strong-minded woman who wielded racist the epidemiological models underpinning epidemiological logic as an organizing policy focused on class and racial groups tool. Disease control and border control can Abel has deftly written a layered ac- be fantasized as homologous enterprises, count, with chapters organized around axes the spreader of disease accused of moving of analysis that systematically reveal how across forbidden territorial lines.
Various le- the politics of exclusion is more likely to gal processes were used to control the vul- produce more illness, not more health.
Sarah D. Phillips, dir. Media of the Philippines from territory to com- Production, Instructional Support Services, monwealth as an opportunity to cut patient prod. Bloomington: Indiana numbers p. The purpose of the film Shapes in the Wax is In her epilogue Abel discusses the contem- to illustrate the nature and practice of folk porary resurgence of TB and anti-immigrant healing techniques that are currently enjoy- rhetoric, although she does not address how ing a period of revival in Ukraine after the lateth-century legal advances such as collapse of communism.
Med- cal treatment that the introduction of a fee- ical anthropologists and those interested in for-service system amidst an economic crisis political and legal anthropology may be dis- has triggered. Rather, other dynamics play appointed that Abel does not delve into a more significant role in generating appeals the rich critical scholarship on cultural and to folk healers.
At this criti- Nevertheless, Abel has written a fascinat- cal juncture of national self-definition, folk ing account of TB in LA. The book will be healing is associated with an affirmation of useful to those interested in how inequal- what it means to be distinctly Ukrainian as ity and discrimination can invade public opposed to Soviet or Russian and what it trust and how hate and negligence can as- means to be a believer. The postcommunist sume the guise of official responsibility.
The book is written in for their assistance. This book demon- western Ukraine to diagnose the source of strates how public health is managed at the maladies such as nervousness, depression, city level and should be of particular inter- sleeplessness, and the like, which are often est to those who wish to focus on the ways attributed to curses and the evil eye.
An overarching nar- rial resources to extend or curtail comfort rator provides background information on and cure. As this narration unfolds, the healers who continued to practice did so viewer sees maps, still shots of rural life, and quietly among family members and usually clips of healers at work.
Given this history of suppression, form their healing rituals. Speaking directly passing down their knowledge to a mem- to the camera, the healers explain what they ber of the next generation turns out to be are doing and why it is they are doing it, of acute concern for most of the healers. These interviews, several young people to their experiences peppered with spontaneous comments from and perceptions of folk healing in such a neighbors, are in Ukrainian, and subtitles way that one understands that the tech- are provided.
The footage of healing rituals niques are unlikely to fade from memory is interspersed with commentary and analy- as the healers feared during the communist sis provided by Phillips in a conversational era. These additional Such illnesses a laden with multiple lay- clips serve to deliver a fuller understanding ers of meaning. The healers are tending to of the meaning of these rituals for those who the stresses individuals experience in harsh perform them and those who subject them- rural life every bit as much as they are to the selves to these types of cures.
The film, similarly layered, stands dox ritual, such as prayers and devotional out as a unique contribution.
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