Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Currer, Caroline.
2. Stacey, Margaret.

Description

1. x, 324 pages; 23 cm

Subject

1. Health attitudes > Cross-cultural studies
2. Diseases > Public opinion > Cross-cultural studies
3. Health attitudes
4. Diseases > Public opinion
5. Cross-cultural studies
6. Diseases
7. Health
8. Social medicine
9. Cross-Cultural Comparison
10. Disease
11. Health
12. Sociology, Medical
13. Attitude to Health
14. health
15. Social medicine
16. Diseases
17. Cross-cultural studies
18. Diseases > Public opinion
19. Health attitudes
20. Gesundheit
21. Begriff
22. Kulturvergleich
23. Aufsatzsammlung
24. Krankheitsbegriff
25. Ziekte
26. Gezondheid
27. Ideeën
28. Médecine > Études transculturelles
29. Maladies > Études transculturelles
30. Habitudes sanitaires > Études transculturelles
31. médecine > système de santé > études diverses
32. maladie > santé > études diverses

Genre/Form

1. Collected Work
2. Cross-cultural studies

Contents

1. Introduction / Caroline Currer, Meg Stacey -- Concepts of health and illness and the division of labour in health care / Meg Stacey -- Concepts and a model for the comparison of medical systems as cultural systems / Arthur Kleinman -- The conceptual determination (uberformung) of individual and collective experiences of illness / Paul Unschuld -- Illness : from causes to meaning / Claudine Herzlich, Janine Pierret -- Competing ideologies of reproduction : medical and maternal perspective on pregnancy / Hilary Graham, Ann Oakley -- Concepts of health and illness in a Sepik society / Gilbert Lewis -- Internalising and externalising medical belief systems : an Ethiopian example / Allan Young -- Reactions of Samoan burn patients and families to severe burns / Joan Ablon -- Concepts of mental well- and ill-being : the case of Pathan mothers in Britain / Caroline Currer -- The underprivileged : a hundred years of their ideas about health and illness / Jeremy Seabrook -- 'Feed a cold, starve a fever' : folk models of infection in an English suburban community and their relation to medical treatment / Cecil G. Helman -- New research on the image of health / Alphonse d'Houtaud, Mark Field -- Concepts of illness causation and responsibility : some preliminary data from a sample of working-class mothers / Roisin Pill, Nigel Stott -- Two basic types of medical orientation / Magdalena Sokolowska -- Conclusion / Caroline Currer, Meg Stacey.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

1. Bibliography: p. 300-314.