{"product_id":"the-cultural-context-of-health-elisa-sobo-9780313377600","title":"The Cultural Context of Health, Illness, and Medicine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \"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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNotable 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Cultural Context of Health, Illness, and Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e\". With engaging examples, minimal jargon, and updated scholarship, the second edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Cultural Context of Health, Illness, and Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elisa Sobo, Martha Loustaunau\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 031337760X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780313377600\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Praeger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/03\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.30w x 1.20d","brand":"Elisa Sobo","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47199841419519,"sku":"9780313377600","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ce5557c1-0c86-417b-a58d-44f6b2e9c111.jpg?v=1756785356","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-cultural-context-of-health-elisa-sobo-9780313377600","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}