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Doing Health Anthropology

Research Methods for Community Assessment and Change

By: Christie W. Kiefer, PhD

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Doing Health Anthropology

Research Methods for Community Assessment and Change

By: Christie W. Kiefer, PhD

What is the relationship between health, human nature, and human needs? The impact of social change on communities? The processes by which communities confront and overcome their health problems? How do we study these health questions in new communities and become advocates for change? These are critical questions in confronting the social causes of ill health, yet many health students do not have the appropriate training in the anthropological methods and techniques that help answer them. Christie Kiefer has written Doing Health Anthropology to prompt students to enter the community already prepared in these methods so that they can accurately ask and solve these important questions themselves. Using this book as a guide, students learn to integrate cultural anthropology with health science and come to their own conclusions based on field research. The book includes common pitfalls to avoid when conducting interviews and observations, and ways to formulate and answer research questions, maintain field notes and other records, and correctly analyze qualitative data. With the help of this text, practitioners and students alike will be able to integrate cultural anthropology methods of research into their health science investigations and community health initiatives. For news and to learn more about how you can implement a community approach to building global health and social justice, visit

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0826115586

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Refuge of the Honored

Social Organization in a Japanese Retirement Community

By: Yasuhito Kinoshita,Christie W. Kiefer

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Refuge of the Honored

Social Organization in a Japanese Retirement Community

By: Yasuhito Kinoshita,Christie W. Kiefer

Faced with the decline of the traditional family and the explosive growth of the over-65 population, the Japanese are looking for new ways to care for their elders. This timely study documents the birth of a major social phenomenon in Japan—the planned retirement community. In the mid-1980s, Yasuhito Kinoshita spent a year living in Japan's first such community, Fuji-no-Sato. His collaboration with Christie W. Kiefer, a cultural gerontologist, is the first detailed study of a retirement community in a non-Western culture. Fuji-no-Sato is a social community with no visible traditions. Kinoshita and Kiefer show that its residents' preference for long-established relationships creates the need for the invention of relationships that have no precedent in Japanese society. This book reveals much about Japanese culture, and about the "graying of society" that plagues the newly industrialized countries of Asia. Its lessons about sensitivity to the elderly's values and the need for clear communication have important applications in other cultures as well.

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Univ of California Press

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0520911784

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Health Work with the Poor

A Practical Guide

By: Christie W. Kiefer

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Health Work with the Poor

A Practical Guide

By: Christie W. Kiefer

Brings home the meaning of poverty in people's lives as it examines both their access to--and their lack of--health care. It offers both health workers and activists a wealth of practical information on advocacy for the poor. Dicussion questions at the end of each chapter and appendices on Internet resources for the study of poverty and on a proposed government program insruct teachers how to foster social awareness among their students.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813527775

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9780813527772

The Mantle of Maturity

A History of Ideas About Character Development

By: Christie W. Kiefer

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The Mantle of Maturity

A History of Ideas About Character Development

By: Christie W. Kiefer

Kiefer presents a comprehensive overview of the key historical concepts of developmental psychology—maturity and maturation. The result of this historical focus is a view of maturity that accounts for both the social forces shaping beliefs and the social consequences of those beliefs. Here is a bridge between developmental psychology, history, and contemporary society. The author begins by presenting his view of the role of ideas in history and the importance of the idea of moral maturity in psychological science, as well as in the process of understanding self. The history of maturity as a moral ideal is presented, beginning with primitive society. Key features of Medieval, Renaissance, Enlightenment, and modern Western society that have influenced ideas of maturity are considered in turn. In part II, Kiefer examines beliefs about the actual process of growth and development from earlier, nonliterate society and into the present. Attempts to unite the philosophic and scientific concepts of development are discussed, such as the Platonic "path of love" as represented by Carol Gilligan, the Aristotelian "path of reason" by Lawrence Kohlberg, and Freud's "path of conflict." Cultural-historical explanations are sought for the particulars of these interplays. In the concluding section, Plato's "four indestructible stages" of maturity and implications of modern life for the attainment of these stages are evaluated. Kiefer makes a plea for an historically self-conscious psychology. By bringing together concepts from anthropology, philosophy, psychology, and history, the author presents a synthetic view of maturing that has fundamental applications in the fields of human development, social gerontology, philosophy, and psychotherapy.

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260

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State University of New York Press

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1438408935

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Deep Code

By: Christie W. Kiefer

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Deep Code

By: Christie W. Kiefer

Professor Morse Brulay is writing to us from his jail cell in Ecuador. Brulay is a roamer and a seeker of the mysterious, the new, the erotic but also of enduring wisdom. In his search for the Deep Code the secret of time travel he runs afoul of the Fomors, the dark spirits of the Druidic world. Cursed with terrifying ashbacks to his prehistoric past, Morse loses his moral bearings and ees to the Amazon jungle in search of spiritual rebirth. There among the Indians he finds the knowledge he seeks and is joined in his new vision by Lotte, the beautiful biologist. In their effort to protect and nourish this knowledge, Morse and Lotte now nd their own lives in danger. Only the power of the discovered wisdom will determine what happens to them, and to the wisdom itself.

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iUniverse

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1462025668

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Doing Health Anthropology

Research Methods for Community Assessment and Change

By: Christie W. Kiefer, PhD

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Research Methods for Community Assessment and Change

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