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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “claudia lang”
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  • The Movement for Global Mental Health

    Critical Views from South and Southeast Asia

    Edited by William Sax, Claudia Lang ...
    Series series Health, Medicine, and Science in Asia
    In The Movement for Global Mental Health: Critical Views from South and Southeast Asia, prominent anthropologists, public health physicians, and psychiatrists respond sympathetically but critically to the Movement for Global Mental Health (MGMH). They question some of its fundamental assumptions: the idea that mental disorders can clearly be identified; that they are primarily of biological origin ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Global Health for All

    Knowledge, Politics, and Practices

    by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Andrew McDowell, Claudia Lang, Claire Beaudevin, Olivia Fiorilli, Lucile Ruault, Anne M. Lovell0, Caroline Meier zu Biesen1, Jessica Pourraz2, Vegard Traavik Sture3, Mandy Geise4, Sameea Ahmed Hassim5, Fanny Chabrol6, Christoph Gradmann7, Laurent Pordié8, Simeng Wang9 ...
    Global Health for All trains a critical lens on global health to share the stories that global health’s practices and logics tell about 20th and 21st century configurations of science and power. An ethnography on multiple scales, the book focuses on global health’s key epistemic and therapeutic practices like localization, measurement, triage, markets, technology, care, and regulation. Its roving ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Depression in Kerala

    Ayurveda and Mental Health Care in 21st Century India

    by Claudia Lang ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology
    This book examines depression as a widely diagnosed and treated common mental disorder in India and offers a significant ethnographic study of the application of a traditional Indian medical system (Ayurveda) to the very modern problem of depression. Based on over a year of fieldwork, it investigates the Ayurvedic response to the burden of depression in the Indian state of Kerala as one of the key ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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    Applying Medical Anthropology

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    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 ... Read more

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  • Depression in Japan

    Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress

    by Junko Kitanaka ...
    A study of the effect of depression and psychiatry on Japanese society—"A triumph, perhaps even a classic" ( Times Higher Education, UK)."Fully engaged with the scholarly literature, and steeped in detail and description, this exemplary book is clearly the product of great care and careful listening and observation. With its high quality, simplicity, and eloquence, it is bound to become the book ... Read more

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  • Affliction

    Health, Disease, Poverty

    by Veena Das ...
    Series series Forms of Living
    Affliction inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. Focusing on low-income neighborhoods in Delhi, it stitches together three different sets of issues.First, it examines the different trajectories of illness: What are the circumstances under which illness is absorbed within the normal and when does it exceed the normal—putting ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Culture, Health and Illness

    An Introduction for Health Professionals

    by Cecil G. Helman ...
    Culture, Health and Illness: An Introduction for Health Professionals, Second edition discusses the fundamentals of medical anthropology. The book is comprised of 12 chapters that present both the theoretical framework and case histories relevant to the topic. The coverage of the text includes the relationship of culture to various health related concepts, such as pain, pharmacology, stress, and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Cultural Perspectives on Mental Wellbeing

    Spiritual Interpretations of Symptoms in Medical Practice

    by Natalie Tobert ...
    As human migration brings an ever more diverse range of people, cultures and beliefs into contact, Western medical systems must adapt to cater for the different approaches it encounters towards illness, the body, gender, mental health and death.Based upon training courses taught by the author to staff at hospitals, mental health professionals, and on degree courses, this complete resource provides ... Read more

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  • Mudpacks and Prozac

    Experiencing Ayurvedic, Biomedical, and Religious Healing

    by Murphy Halliburton ...
    People seeking psychiatric healing choose from an almost dizzying array of therapies—from the medicated mud packs of Ayurveda, to the pharmacopeia of Western biomedicine, to the spiritual pathways of the world's religions. How do we choose, what do the treatments offer, and how do they cure? In Mudpacks and Prozac, Murphy Halliburton investigates the very different ways in which Ayurvedic, Western ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Culturally Competent Compassion

    A Guide for Healthcare Students and Practitioners

    by Irena Papadopoulos ...
    Bringing together the crucially important topics of cultural competence and compassion for the first time, this book explores how to practise ‘culturally competent compassion’ in healthcare settings – that is, understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it using culturally appropriate and acceptable caring interventions.This text first discusses the philosophical and ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Culture, Therapy, and Healing

    Edited by Uwe P. Gielen, Jefferson M. Fish, Juris G. Draguns ...
    Emotional, as well as physical distress, is a heritage from our hominid ancestors; it has been experienced by every group of human beings since our emergence as a species. And every known culture has developed systems of conceptualization and intervention for addressing it.The editors have brought together leading psychologists, psychiatrists, anthropologists, and others to consider the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Culture, Health and Illness

    An Introduction for Health Professionals

    by Cecil Helman ...
    Culture, Health and Illness: An Introduction for Health Professionals covers basic ideas and research in medical anthropology. The book starts by discussing the scope of medical anthropology and the cultural definitions of anatomy and physiology, including the body structure and its functions. The text describes the clinical significance of food in diet and nutrition, social and cultural aspects ... Read more

    $65.99 USD