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Author Airhihenbuwa, Collins O.

Title Health and culture : beyond the Western paradigm / Collins O. Airhihenbuwa.

Publication Info. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publishers, [1995]
©1995

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  306.461 A298H    Check Shelf
Description xvi, 152 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents pt. I. Theorizing Health and Culture in the African Context. 1. Culture, Health Promotion, and Development. 2. Communicating Health Within Culture. 3. Developing Culturally Appropriate Health Programs -- pt. II. Representation and Difference in Health Promotion. 4. Health, Healing, and Medicine as Cultural Constructs. 5. African Women's Health and the Confluence of Patriarchal and Western Hegemonies. 6. The Cultural Production of Healthy Children and Youth. 7. Contextualizing the Health Praxis of African Americans. 8. Approaches to Health Promotion Beyond the Turn of the Century.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-142) and index.
Subject Social medicine -- Africa.
Health promotion -- Social aspects -- Africa.
Preventive health services -- Social aspects -- Africa.
Ethnocentrism.
Social Medicine -- Africa.
Health Promotion -- Africa.
Cross-Cultural Comparison.
Indexed Term Health Sociology
Africa
ISBN 0803971567 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
0803971575 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
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