Health and Culture Beyond the Western Paradigm [Hardcover]

Offering a trenchant analysis of the effect that culture has in determining our perceptions - and expectations - of health care, this provocative volume challenges traditional, Westernized, medical models. The author surveys various aspects of the health education domain, discusses the elements that inform an educational diagnosis of health behaviour and considers the cultural appropriateness of health behaviour in general.Offering a trenchant analysis of the effect that culture has in determining our perceptions - and expectations - of health care, this provocative volume challenges traditional, Westernized, medical models. The author surveys various aspects of the health education domain, discusses the elements that inform an educational diagnosis of health behaviour and considers the cultural appropriateness of health behaviour in general.PART ONE: THEORIZING HEALTH AND CULTURE IN THE AFRICAN CONTEXT
Culture, Health Promotion and Development
Communicating Health within Culture
Developing Culturally Appropriate Health Programs
PART TWO: REPRESENTATION AND DIFFERENCE IN HEALTH PROMOTION
Health, Healing and Medicine as Cultural Constructs
African Women's Health and the Confluence of Patriarchal and Western Hegemonies
The Cultural Production of Healthy Children and Youth
Contextualizing the Health Praxis of African-Americans
Approaches to Health Promotion Beyond the Fin de Siecle