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  • The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health

    Edited by Dorothea Lüddeckens, Philipp Hetmanczyk, Pamela E. Klassen, Justin B. Stein ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Religion
    The relationships between religion, spirituality, health, biomedical institutions, complementary, and alternative healing systems are widely discussed today. While many of these debates revolve around the biomedical legitimacy of religious modes of healing, the market for them continues to grow. The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health is an outstanding reference source to the key ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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    A Global Approach

    by Andrew Singleton ...
    "The reader is taken on a global exploration of the forms and diversities of religions and their social and cultural contexts... It is up to the minute in research and theory, and comfortably grounded in the traditions of the social explanation of things religious and spiritual."- Gary Bouma AM, Monash University"Tells how sociology of religion originated in the work of key nineteenth and ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Dimensions of Culture: Cross-Cultural Communications for Healthcare Professionals

    by Marcia Carteret ...
    In cross-cultural health care interactions, there are many situations where communication is challenging because patients and their families exhibit different values, beliefs, and behaviors from those of their American physicians. Physicians educated in western medicine, who work in the health care system in the United States, operate within a highly specific medical culture though they may not ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Affliction

    Health, Disease, Poverty

    by Veena Das ...
    Series series Forms of Living
    Affliction inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. Focusing on low-income neighborhoods in Delhi, it stitches together three different sets of issues.First, it examines the different trajectories of illness: What are the circumstances under which illness is absorbed within the normal and when does it exceed the normal—putting ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Anthropology of Health and Healing

    by Mari Womack ...
    The Anthropology of Health and Healing provides the first holistic approach to the study of medical anthropology. Over the past two decades, medical anthropology has been the most rapidly growing subfield in anthropology, and a number of medial anthropology texts have been published, focusing primarily on public policy and health care delivery systems. Yet while Anthropologists have researched ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Tibetan Medicine in the Contemporary World

    Global Politics of Medical Knowledge and Practice

    Edited by Laurent Pordié ...
    Series series Needham Research Institute Series
    The popularity of Tibetan medicine plays a central role in the international market for alternative medicine and has been increasing and extending far beyond its original cultural area becoming a global phenomenon. This book analyses Tibetan medicine in the 21st century by considering the contemporary reasons that have led to its diversity and by bringing out the common orientations of this ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Bioethics: The Basics

    by Alastair Campbell ...
    Series series The Basics
    Bioethics: The Basics is an introduction to the foundational principles, theories and issues in the study of medical and biological ethics. Readers are introduced to bioethics from the ground up before being invited to consider some of the most controversial but important questions facing us today. Topics addressed include:the range of moral theories underpinning bioethicsarguments for the rights ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Faith and Fertility

    Attitudes Towards Reproductive Practices in Different Religions from Ancient to Modern Times

    by Gautam Allahbadia, Sulbha Arora, Swati Allahbadia, Mohammad Iqbal, Jim Richards, Ray Noble, Gideon Weitzman, Mark Washofsky, Titilayo Aderibigbe, Cecilia Chan, Celia Chan Hoi Yan, Michael Barnhart, Phyllis Creighton ...
    When an individual or couple is considering a difficult choice such as IVF treatment or third party assisted conception, the moral and ethical basis for their decisions may often be informed by their particular faith traditions.Faith and Fertility is a comprehensive collection of essays by academics and faith leaders from around the world. The reader is introduced to the cultural and religious ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia

    Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Assa Doron, Alex Broom ...
    Series series Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series
    Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia brings together top international scholars from a range of social science disciplines to critically explore the interplay of local cultural and religious practices in the delivery and experiences of health in South Asia. This groundbreaking text provides much needed insight into the relationships between health, culture, community, livelihood, and the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Cultural Perspectives on Mental Wellbeing

    Spiritual Interpretations of Symptoms in Medical Practice

    by Natalie Tobert ...
    As human migration brings an ever more diverse range of people, cultures and beliefs into contact, Western medical systems must adapt to cater for the different approaches it encounters towards illness, the body, gender, mental health and death.Based upon training courses taught by the author to staff at hospitals, mental health professionals, and on degree courses, this complete resource provides ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Ritual Matters

    Dynamic Dimensions in Practice

    Edited by Ute Husken, Christiane Brosius ...
    This book explores the interaction of rituals and ritualised practices utilising a cross-cultural approach. It discusses whether and why rituals are important today, and why they are possibly even more relevant than before. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Non-Western Educational Traditions

    Local Approaches to Thought and Practice

    by Timothy Reagan ...
    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    Informative and mind-opening, this text uniquely provides a comprehensive overview of a range of non-western approaches to educational thought and practice. Its premise is that understanding the ways that other people educate their children—as well as what counts for them as "education"—may help readers to think more clearly about some of their own assumptions and values, and to become more open ... Read more

    $76.99 USD