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Kaur, Reetinder; K. Sinha, A.

 
9783659117718: Reproductive and Child Healthcare Practices: An Anthropological Study
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3659117714 ISBN 13 : 9783659117718
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Medical anthropology's biocultural approach expands the biomedical perspective that views the health only as a biological issue. Human health and disease derive from the interactions of human's biological potentials with numerous environments through culturally, socially and individually mediated experiences that have effects on biological processes. The research on reproductive health within medical anthropology encompasses people’s emic perspective on all matters related to sexuality and reproductive processes, and functions. Children represent the future, and ought to be a prime concern of all societies. Newborns are particularly vulnerable and children are vulnerable to malnutrition and infectious diseases. Both reproductive and child health are affected by a number of socio-cultural factors. Thus, reproductive and child health are important issues to which the medical anthropology can contribute a lot. The salient features of book includes concepts, views and definitions of health; socio-cultural factors that affect health; reproductive and child healthcare practices from the holistic medical anthropological viewpoint; first-hand information collected from female respondents.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Medical anthropology's biocultural approach expands the biomedical perspective that views the health only as a biological issue. Human health and disease derive from the interactions of human's biological potentials with numerous environments through culturally, socially and individually mediated experiences that have effects on biological processes. The research on reproductive health within medical anthropology encompasses people’s emic perspective on all matters related to sexuality and reproductive processes, and functions. Children represent the future, and ought to be a prime concern of all societies. Newborns are particularly vulnerable and children are vulnerable to malnutrition and infectious diseases. Both reproductive and child health are affected by a number of socio-cultural factors. Thus, reproductive and child health are important issues to which the medical anthropology can contribute a lot. The salient features of book includes concepts, views and definitions of health; socio-cultural factors that affect health; reproductive and child healthcare practices from the holistic medical anthropological viewpoint; first-hand information collected from female respondents.

Biographie de l'auteur

Reetinder Kaur: Gold Medalist in B.Sc. and M.Sc. (Anthropology), currently pursuing Doctoral Degree, published 8 research papers. A.K.Sinha: Professor and Chairperson, Department of Anthropology, Panjab University, Chandigarh (India), published 50 research papers and 8 books. Both interested in social anthropological research.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3659117714
ISBN 13 
9783659117718
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
188
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