Ethnicity and Medical Care - Rilegato

Harwood, Alan

 
9780674268654: Ethnicity and Medical Care
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ISBN 10: 0674268652 ISBN 13: 9780674268654
Casa editrice: Harvard Univ Pr, 1981

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Ethnicity and Medical Care equips health professionals with the ethnographic data they need to deliver better health care within American communities of urban blacks, Chinese, Haitians, Italians, Mexicans, Navajos, and Puerto Ricans. Each chapter, dealing in turn with one of these seven American subcultures, reviews the available demographic and epidemiological data and examines sociocultural influences on each major phase of illness.

Topics range from culture-specific syndromes such as susto or “evil eye,” to concepts of disease based on blood perturbations or God's punishment, to lay-referral networks, consultation of mainstream and non-mainstream sources of medical care, and adherence to treatment regimens. But ethnic behavior often entails general styles of interaction―attitudes toward authority figures, sex-role allocations, and ways of expressing emotion and asking for help―that are carried over into the healthcare setting. Accordingly, Ethnicity and Medical Care also offers general guidelines for providing more personalized, culturally relevant care for any ethnically affiliated patient.

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Editore
Harvard Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
1981
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0674268652
ISBN 13 
9780674268654
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
544
Contatto del produttore
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