Health, the Individual, and Integrated Medicine: Revisiting an Aesthetic of Health Care

 by David Aldridge PB 224 Pages 

This book examines cultural understandings of illness and medicines, providing a critique of orthodox methods used to assess treatment and advocating a more pluralistic approach to medical research and practice, encompassing the physical, psychological, spiritual and social dimensions of a person’s life. To assess medical research in a range of situations, Aldridge examines how asthma can be treated by acupuncture, how communities cope with terminal cancer and how music therapy and spiritual healing can be used. A direct, thoughtful and practical guide to research in current healthcare practice.

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Culture, Health and Illness 4th Edition

by Cecil Helman PB 328 Pages

An introduction to the role of cultural and social factors in health and disease, showing how an understanding of these factors can improve medical care and health education. The book demonstrates how different cultural, social or ethnic groups explain the causes of ill health, the types of treatment they believe in, and to whom they would turn if they were ill. It discusses the relationship of these beliefs and practices to the instance of certain diseases, both physical and psychological.

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