Culture, Health and Disease

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1966 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

Autorentext

Edited by Read, Margaret

Inhalt

Part 1 Traditional systems of care in sickness; Chapter 1 Survival studies and health hazards; Chapter 2 Role of the kin group in illness; Chapter 3 The role of the traditional practitioner; Chapter 4 Traditional ideas about sickness and treatment; Part 2 Social groups, culture patterns, and health; Chapter 5 The human group and its integration; Chapter 6 Culture patterns and human groups; Chapter 7 Ritual, religion, and values in health practices; Part 3 The forward look and the backward glance; Chapter 8 New horizons; Chapter 9 Drugs, injections, and opening doors; Chapter 10 Channels of new ideas about health and sickness; Chapter 11 Implications for orientation and training;