Clinical Anthropology: An Application of Anthropological Concepts Within Clinical Settings

By John A. Rush

Book Overview

This unique book applies concepts from the field of anthropology to clinical settings to result in a powerful and dynamic model/theory of clinical anthropology. These clinical settings could include hospitals, police and probation situations, individual and marriage and family counseling, as well as cross-cultural issues, governmental policy, and other instances of educational delivery of concepts and behaviors that allow individuals/groups to reduce stress and move toward personal/group health. In addition to appealing to anthropology and other social/behavioral science scholars, this book will be useful to clinicians of many specialities within Western biomedicine including physicians, nurses, and health care administrators.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275955729
• ISBN13: 9780275955724
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Health and the Human Condition: Practicing Anthropology

Medical anthropology, for the most pasrt, has remained an intellectual enterprise with numerous theories regarding how differing cultures experience and deal with illness and disease. This is the first work of its kind to outline the basic elements of our biological and cultural selves and then, using information categories, show the nature of illness and how differing cultures respond. This work also shows that Western biomedicine is no more or less scientific than and any other cultural tradition. In fact, Western biomedicine (excluding trauma medicine) is little interested in health but in economics and experimentation. This work sets the theoritical tone for the second volume in this series, Stress and Emotional Haalth: Applications of Clinical Anthropology, which outlines the similarities one finds when dealing with emotional issues in all cultures, and then presents techniques that anyone can apply. Necessary reading for anyone in anthropology, psychology, medicine, sociology, and nursing interesting in the nature of health and healing.