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100 1  Sobo, Elisa Janine,|d1963- 
245 14 The cultural context of health, illness, and medicine /
       |cElisa J. Sobo and Martha O. Loustaunau. 
250    Second edition. 
264  1 Santa Barbara, Calif. :|bPraeger,|c[2010] 
264  4 |c©2010 
300    xviii, 268 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    Martha Loustaunau is first named author on previous 
       edition. 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-254) and 
       index. 
505 0  The concept of culture -- The health-related consequences 
       of social structure -- Health and illness over the life 
       course -- Therapeutic modalities : a cross-cultural 
       perspective -- Biomedicine : emergence and evolution in 
       cultural context -- Reforming medicine -- Developing 
       cultural sensitivity -- Putting ideas into practice : 
       complex contemporary challenges -- Project and class 
       presentation ideas. 
520    A "one size fits all" approach to health care does not 
       work well, especially for America's extremely diverse 
       population. This book provides a discussion of how and why
       a more flexible and culturally sensitive system of health 
       care can, and must be, achieved. America is truly a world 
       civilization, home to billions of immigrants from all 
       around the globe. We came first by land, then sea, and now
       air as well, bringing with us a diversity of cultural 
       traditions. What are the ramifications of this for the way
       we deliver health care?  Anthropologist George Foster 
       defined the first edition of this work as "a very readable
       introductory text dealing with the sociocultural aspects 
       of health."  With  examples and updated scholarship, this 
       second edition offers a guide to the practice of 
       culturally sensitive health care. Readers will see 
       America's biomedically dominated health care system in a 
       new light as the book reveals the changes wrought by 
       increasing cultural diversity, technological innovation, 
       and developments in care delivery.  Written by a 
       sociologist and an anthropologist with direct, hands-on 
       experience in the health services, this volume tracks 
       culture's influence on and relationship to health, illness,
       and health-care delivery via an examination of social 
       structure, medical systems, and the need for, and 
       challenges to, culturally sensitive care. Cultural 
       differences are situated against social-class differences 
       and related health inequities, as well as different needs 
       and challenges throughout the life course. In prescribing 
       caring that is more holistic, culturally sensitive, and 
       cost-effective, the work promotes awareness of pressing 
       issues for health care professionals and the people they 
       serve. 
650  0 Medical anthropology. 
650  0 Social medicine. 
650 12 Cultural Competency|zUnited States. 
650 22 Anthropology|zUnited States. 
650 22 Attitude to Health|xethnology|zUnited States. 
650 22 Cultural Diversity|zUnited States. 
650 22 Delivery of Health Care|zUnited States. 
700 1  Loustaunau, Martha O.,|d1938- 
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