Received: from gold.ac.uk (scorpio.gold.ac.uk [158.223.1.1]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.4/CNS-4.1p-nh) with ESMTP id NAA26539 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 13:46:05 -0700 (MST) Received: from localhost (soa01cfs@localhost) by gold.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA06437 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 20:45:59 GMT Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 20:45:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Clive Seale To: MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY Subject: Re: Medicine and Culture In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.16.19981105083511.1fb72ad6@mail.sdsu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII This is a good intro to medical anthropology which contains such material. There is a more recent second edition, but I don't have the date for that. Helman C.G. (1990) Culture, Health and Illness. Butterworth- Heinemann. Clive Seale Department of Sociology Goldsmiths College Lewisham Way London SE14 6NW Phone: 0171 919 7729 (direct) 0171 919 7707 (office) Fax: 0171 919 7713 On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Shelly Chandler wrote: > For several years I have been using Lynn Payer's book, Medicine and Culture > in my Health and Illness class. It has been very useful for illustrating > the social construction of the concept of health, and the variability of > practices in several countries. > The problem is the book is some years old now and, save for a new > introduction, Payer has not updated it. > > Does anyone know of another, more recent work comparing the concepts of > health and disease in a variety of different cultures and that would be > appropriate for an undergraduate course? > > I would appreciate any ideas. > > Thanks, > > Shelly Chandler > schandler@sciences.sdsu.edu > >