Health Psychology: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Health, CourseSmart eTextbook: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Health: Global Edition - Hardcover

Ragin, Deborah Fish

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0132568578 ISBN 13: 9780132568579

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

This reader looks at both the biological and cultural aspects of health and healing within a comparative framework.

Health and Healing in Comparative Perspective provides both fascinating comparative ethnographic detail and a theoretical framework for organizing and interpreting information about health. While there are many health-related fields represented in this book, its core discipline is medical anthropology and its main focus is the comparative approach. Cross-cultural comparison gives anthropological analysis breadth while the evolutionary time scale gives it depth. These two features have always been fundamental to anthropology and continue to distinguish it among the social sciences. A third feature is the in-depth knowledge of culture produced by anthropological methods such as participant-observation, involving long-term presence in and research among a study population. For medical anthropology, medical sociology, public health, nursing courses.

About this title

About the Author:

 

Deborah Fish Ragin is a Professor of Psychology at Montclair State University, as well as an Adjunct Associate Professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC where she is also involved in research. 

 

Ragin is a reviewer for the international journal Social Science and Medicine, and the Journal for Interpersonal Violence, and is on the Editorial Board for the American Journal of Nursing.

 

 

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About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0132568578
• ISBN 13: 9780132568579
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 528