The Cultural Context of Health, Illness, and Medicine by Sobo, Elisa J.

The Cultural Context of Health, Illness, and Medicine (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780313377853)

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The Cultural Context of Health, Illness, and Medicine by Sobo, Elisa J.

The Cultural Context of Health, Illness, and Medicine

$35.00
The Cultural Context of Health, Illness, and Medicine by Sobo, Elisa J.

The Cultural Context of Health, Illness, and Medicine

$35.00
Format: Paperback
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A "one size fits all" approach to health care doesn't work well, especially for America's extremely diverse population. This book provides a lively and accessible discussion of how and why a more flexible and culturally sensitive system of health care can--and must be--achieved.

Notable anthropologist George Foster defined the first edition as "a very readable introductory text dealing with the sociocultural aspects of health," adding: "[T]he authors do a commendable job... . I have profited from reading The Cultural Context of Health, Illness, and Medicine". With engaging examples, minimal jargon, and updated scholarship, the second edition of The Cultural Context of Health, Illness, and Medicine offers a comprehensive 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, the 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.

Author: Elisa J. Sobo, Martha Oehmke Loustaunau
ISBN-10: 0313377855
ISBN-13: 9780313377853
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 08/03/2010
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2010 pg. 84
By Elisa J. Sobo
By Elisa J. Sobo
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Elisa J. Sobo, PhD, is professor of anthropology at San Diego State University.

Martha O. Loustaunau, PhD, professor emerita of the Department of Sociology at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, continues to teach online courses in multicultural health care, medical ethics, and aging, at New Mexico State.

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