Culture and Cancer Care (Facing Death)

A wide-ranging study of ethnic disparities in cancer treatment Culture and Cancer Care is a unique look at cultural themes in relation to cancer, illustrated using studies from the United States and United Kingdom. This book is the first to examine how ethnic disparities can be overcome both at political and local levels. It discusses cultural competence and culturally appropriate health education, cultural variability in cancer treatments and prognosis, complementary and alternative medicine for cancer patients, and palliative care across cultures.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Dein, Simon

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Open University Press

<p>This text examines a number of cultural themes in relation to cancer, including rates of incidence among ethnic groups, cultural variability in cancer treatments and the influence on prognosis, complimentary and alternative treatments, and palliative care across cultures.</p>

Culture and Cancer Care

<p>Cultural Psychiatry &amp; Medical Anthropology is designed as a textbook for a rapidly expanding new field of interdisiplinary study. As well as a broad overview of the central themes and issues, the book brings together the key writings in the field since the late 19th century. Each of the extracts has been selected to ilustrate issues of contemprary interest - these include medicine and magic, sexuality, death, pyschosis, anxiety, symbols, mental disease, intoxicants, the status of normality, hysteria and suicide.</p>

Cultural Psychiatry and Medical Anthropology: An Introduction and Reader

Littlewood, Roland

Literature & Fiction

Athlone Pr

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