Cultures Of Healing
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Author | : Uwe P. Gielen |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 660 |
Release | : 2012-10-12 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 113561377X |
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Emotional, as well as physical distress, is a heritage from our hominid ancestors; it has been experienced by every group of human beings since our emergence as a species. And every known culture has developed systems of conceptualization and intervention for addressing it. The editors have brought together leading psychologists, psychiatrists, anthropologists, and others to consider the interaction of psychosocial, biological, and cultural variables as they influence the assessment of health and illness and the course of therapy. The volume includes broadly conceived theoretical and survey chapters; detailed descriptions of specific healing traditions in Asia, the Americas, Africa, and the Arab world. The Handbook of Culture, Therapy, and Healing is a unique resource, containing information about Western therapies practiced in non-Western cultures, non-Western therapies practiced both in their own context and in the West.
Author | : Robert Spitzer |
Publisher | : Ignatius Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2009-10-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 168149227X |
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Father Spitzer, President of Gonzaga University, has been using the principles in this book over the last eight years to educate people of all backgrounds in the philosophy of the pro-life movement. The tremendous positive response he has received inspired him to start the Life Principles Institute. This book is one of the key resources used for this program. This work effectively draws out the connections between personal attitudes toward happiness and the meaning of life, and the larger cultural issues such as freedom and human rights. Relying on the wisdom of the ages and respecting the human persons' unique capacity for rational analysis, this work offers definitions of the key cultural terms affecting life issues, including Happiness, Success, Love, Suffering, Quality of Life, Ethics, Freedom, Personhood, Human Rights and the Common Good.
Author | : David Landy |
Publisher | : New York : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : |
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Abstract: An historical perspective of disease and healing practices as related to culture is addressed in 57 papers for students and professionals in the medical and health fields. The papers are organized among 14 major themes, addressing: medical anthropology; paleopathology; disease ecology and epidemiology; medical systems and theories relative to disease and therapy; sociocultural influences and ethnic practices in disease diagnosis; sorcery and witchcraft; disease prevention via social controls; surgery practices and population control in the preindustrial era; cultural and environmental factors relative to stress, pain, and death; cultural influences on behavioral disorders; the special role of the inflicted in society; and current primitive healing practices and the impact of sociocultural change on such practices. (wz).
Author | : Peregrine Horden |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2019-02-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0429657323 |
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This volume brings together for the first time an updated collection of articles exploring poverty, poor relief, illness, and health care as they intersected in Western Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East, during a ‘long’ Middle Ages. It offers a thorough and wide-ranging investigation into the institution of the hospital and the development of medicine and charity, with focuses on the history of music therapy and the history of ideas and perceptions fundamental to psychoanalysis. The collection is both sequel and complement to Horden’s earlier volume of collected studies, Hospitals and Healing from Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages (2008). It will be welcomed by all those interested in the premodern history of healing and welfare for its breadth of scope and scholarly depth.
Author | : Arthur Kleinman |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 2023-04-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520340841 |
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From the Preface, by Arthur Kleinman: Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture presents a theoretical framework for studying the relationship between medicine, psychiatry, and culture. That framework is principally illustrated by materials gathered in field research in Taiwan and, to a lesser extent, from materials gathered in similar research in Boston. The reader will find this book contains a dialectical tension between two reciprocally related orientations: it is both a cross-cultural (largely anthropological) perspective on the essential components of clinical care and a clinical perspective on anthropological studies of medicine and psychiatry. That dialectic is embodied in my own academic training and professional life, so that this book is a personal statement. I am a psychiatrist trained in anthropology. I have worked in library, field, and clinic on problems concerning medicine and psychiatry in Chinese culture. I teach cross-cultural psychiatry and medical anthropology, but I also practice and teach consultation psychiatry and take a clinical approach to my major cross-cultural teaching and research involvements. The theoretical framework elaborated in this book has been applied to all of those areas; in turn, they are used to illustrate the theory. Both the theory and its application embody the same dialectic. The purpose of this book is to advance both poles of that dialectic: to demonstrate the critical role of social science (especially anthropology and cross-cultural studies) in clinical medicine and psychiatry and to encourage study of clinical problems by anthropologists and other investigators involved in cross-cultural research. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980. From the Preface, by Arthur Kleinman: Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture presents a theoretical framework for studying the relationship between medicine, psychiatry, and culture. That framework is principally illustrated by materials gathered
Author | : Na Na |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781349620678 |
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Author | : Robert T. Fancher |
Publisher | : W.H. Freeman |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9780716730637 |
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This work contends that while mental health care is legitimate, many of its claims to scientific truth and authority are not. Written by a practising psychotherapist, it argues that rather than operating as an objective science, the mental health profession is composed of competing cultures built around false ideology and subjective belief. This book provides a general history of mental health care in America and then analyzes four major schools of therapy - psychoanalysis, behaviourism, cognitive therapy and biological psychiatry - discussing the historical significance, general principles and methods of treatment, world view values and scientific status of each. It concludes with the author's assessment of how best to view mental health care and use it wisely and effectively. An appendix offers an insight into choosing a therapist.
Author | : William E. Smythe |
Publisher | : Brush Education |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Cultural Characteristics |
ISBN | : 9781550593341 |
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As our awareness of and interaction with diverse cultures grown, so too does the need to understand their belief systems and their definition of health better. Perhaps now more than ever, the challenges that each unique culture presents to conventional health practioners and the underlying assumptions of Western medicine need to be examined for the well-being of the world's people. By exploring a variety of belief systems and traditional healing practices from psychological, religious, spiritual, and cultural perspectives, the authors aim to encourage mutual understanding and respect among different traditions of knowledge, as well as offer resources for enhancing personal growth and mental health.
Author | : David R. Kinsley |
Publisher | : Pearson |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : |
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Explicitly dealing with the religious aspects of healing and healers, this unique and intriguing book examines illness, healing, and religion in cross-cultural perspective by looking at how sickness is understood and treated in a wide variety of cultures. Centered around three principle themes, the text: A) illustrates how crucial it is to frame illness in a meaningful context in every culture and how this process is almost always bound up with religious, spiritual, and moral concerns; B) shows how many beliefs, strategies, and practices that characterize traditional cultures also appear in Christianity, putting healing in the Christian tradition in a broad, rational context, and; C) discusses the continuities between traditional, explicitly religious, and modern medical cultures -- demonstrating that many features of modern scientific medicine are symbolic and ritualistic, and that many aspects and practices of modern medicine are similar to healing as seen in traditional, pre-scientific medical cultures. For those in the religious, anthropological and medical professions.
Author | : Arthur Kleinman |
Publisher | : Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : |
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