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Culture and health :

Winkelman, Michael.

Culture and health : applying medical anthropology / Michael Winkelman. - 1st ed. - San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, ©2009. - xxv, 480 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [437]-460) and index.

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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Medical anthropology.
Social medicine.
Culture.
Health Services.
Anthropology.
Health Behavior--ethnology.
Medicine, Traditional.

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