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Culture, Health and Illness, Fifth edition

By: Cecil Helman

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Culture, Health and Illness, Fifth edition

By: Cecil Helman

Culture, Health and Illness is the leading international textbook on the role of cultural and social factors in health, illness, and medical care. Since first published in 1984, it has been used in over 40 countries within universities, medical schools and nursing colleges. This new edition meets the ever-growing need for a clear starting point in

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Culture, Health and Illness

An Introduction for Health Professionals

By: Cecil G. Helman

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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 epidemiology. The book also discusses the doctor-patient relation, the various sectors of health care, and the scope of medical anthropology. The text will be of great use to professionals in health related fields. Researchers and practitioners of anthropology, sociology, and psychology will also benefit from this book.

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Culture, Health and Illness

An Introduction for Health Professionals

By: Cecil Helman

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An Introduction for Health Professionals

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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 of medical pluralism and health care. Doctor-patient interactions; social, psychological and cultural factors associated with pain; and non-pharmacological influences of medication, in relation to placebos, psychotropic and narcotic drugs, alcohol, and tobacco are also considered. The book then covers the type of rituals that relate to health and illness and the management of misfortune. The text also encompasses transcultural psychiatry, the cultural aspects of stress, and cultural factors in epidemiology. The selection is useful to health professions (doctors, nurses, midwives, health visitors, medical social workers, and nutritionists); those involved in health education or foreign medical aid; undergraduate students taking up these disciplines; and those studying anthropology or sociology.

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1483193470

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Culture, Health and Illness, Fifth edition

By: Cecil Helman

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104005935X

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The Other Half of the Dream

By: Cecil Helman

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The Other Half of the Dream

By: Cecil Helman

Helman, Cecil. The Other Half of the Dream. Poetry. Prose Poetry. The Other Half of the Dream is a collection of prose poems that carry the reader into a parallel world of dreamlike possibilities. It's a surreal world of humor, absurdity and paranoia. The images drawn from this surreal world of humor, absuridy and paranoia represent, not just our unconscious dreams, but also the mysteries that lie at the very periphery of dream itself.

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Culture, Health and Illness, Fifth edition

By: Cecil Helman

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By: Cecil Helman

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Irregular Numbers of Beasts and Birds

By: Cecil Helman

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Irregular Numbers of Beasts and Birds

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Poetry. IRREGULAR NUMBERS OF BEASTS AND BIRDS is a collection of portraits, odes, and ruminations about life's major and minor disasters and recoveries. In vivid, unsentimental prose, Helman draws individual resonance from universal themes, and a sense of shared humanity that is drawn from the infinitesimally specific. Helman emphasizes the cyclical nature of life--the volume is divided into four sections based on seasons--as well as the human tendency to repeat the "same old stories" over and over again. At the same time, he reminds us that every lived moment is truly its own. "Subtle, funny, smart--Cecil Helman understand[s] something fundamental about the human condition, and regards it with compassion and warmth"--Cole Swenson.

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Quale Press

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0974450359

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The Body of Frankenstein's Monster

Essays in Myth and Medicine

By: Cecil Helman

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The Body of Frankenstein's Monster

Essays in Myth and Medicine

By: Cecil Helman

Frankenstein. Werewolves. Dracula. These images aren't just imaginary creatures -- they're also powerful symbols of the body. The body can be thought of as a machine made up of parts like Frankenstein's monster, or as a creature ruled by animalistic urges, or as an entity that's vulnerable to infection from a diseased fiend. In "The Body of Frankenstein's Monster," Cecil Helman, M.D., expands our view of our bodies by exploring its cultural and artistic representations.

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Cosimo, Inc.

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1616406410

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Culture, Health and Illness

An Introduction for Health Professionals

By: Cecil G. Helman

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An Introduction for Health Professionals

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Suburban Shaman

Tales from Medicine's Frontline

By: Cecil Helman

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Suburban Shaman

Tales from Medicine's Frontline

By: Cecil Helman

To be a good doctor you have to be a compassionate chameleon, a shapehifter - a shaman. Even if your adaptation to your patients' world happenst an unconscious level you should always work within their system of ideas,ever against it...' So writes Cecil Helman after 27 years as a familyractitioner in the suburbs of North London interlaced with training andesearch as a medical anthropologist, comparing a wide variety of healthystems. This unique combination of frontline health worker and detachedcademic informs the many stories that make up this fascinating book. It alsonforms the author's shared insights into what these stories can teach usbout ourselves and our own attitudes to health and illness, whether we areeliverers or recipients of health care.;With humour and gentle humaneness,elman's colourful stories take the reader on a journey from apartheid Southfrica, where he did his initial training, to the London of the early 1970s,here for a short time he foreswore medicine to become an anthropologist andoet; from ship's doctor on a Mediterranean cruise to family practitioner in

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1905140088

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Culture, Health and Illness 4Ed

By: C. G. Helman

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Culture, Health and Illness 4Ed

By: C. G. Helman

Culture, Health and Illness is an introduction to the role of cultural and social factors in health and disease, showing how an understanding of these factors can improve medical care and health education. The book demonstrates how different cultural, social or ethnic groups explain the causes of ill health, the types of treatment they believe in, and to whom they would turn if they were ill. It discusses the relationship of these beliefs and practices to the instance of certain diseases, both physical and psychological. This new edition has been extended and modernised with new material added to every chapter. In addition, there is a new chapter on 'new research methods in medical anthropology', and the book in now illustrated where appropriate. Anyone intending to follow a career in medicine, allied health, nursing or counselling will benefit from reading this book at an early stage in their career.

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336

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0750647868

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9780750647861

Striking a Balance

A Comprehensive Approach to Early Literacy

By: Nancy L. Cecil

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Striking a Balance

A Comprehensive Approach to Early Literacy

By: Nancy L. Cecil

Striking a Balance explores a comprehensive program of early literacy instruction through a balanced approach to reading and writing for both enjoyment and information. The fifth edition retains the special features that adopters have come to appreciate: classroom vignettes, discussion questions, field-based activities, a student website, and study guide. This latest edition offers expanded content on differentiating instruction for diverse learners, including working with English Language Learners and students with special needs. Also new to this edition is greater coverage on integrating state standards with early literacy instruction. The book’s practical approach fundamentally demonstrates how children develop authentic literacy skills through a combination of direct strategy instruction and motivating contexts.

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481

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Taylor & Francis

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1351812947

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A Celebration of Life

By: Cecil Mark Inman

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A Celebration of Life

By: Cecil Mark Inman

Inman presents the story of one POWUs life journey since the Korean War, including his 34 months as a POW who survived torture and beatings, and learned that life was to be celebrated, not lamented. (Social Issues)

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