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What Is Medicine? : Western And Eastern Approaches To Healing

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Paul U. Unschuld ; translated from the German by Karen Reimers
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Book, University of California Press, 2009
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Medicine · Philosophy · History · Medicine, Oriental · Philosophy, Medical · Cross-Cultural Comparison · Medicine, East Asian Traditional · Unschuld, Paul U. 1943-
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Family Violence And Men Of Color : Healing The Wounded Male Spirit

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Ricardo Carrillo, Jerry Tello, editors
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Book, 2nd ed, Springer Pub. Co, 2008
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Key Features:Chapters analyzing violent behavioral patterns in each major community of color Three new chapters on the African-American, Maori and Nicaraguan communities, in addition to the Latino, Native American, Asian, and South American communities Culturally-based strategies and models that enhance the efficacy of existing intervention programs for men who batter Integrates clinical, experiential, and narrative approaches to family violence This text calls for a critical evaluation and transformation of cultural practices that promote violence against women, and will be pivotal in the development of more effective prevention and intervention programs in the years to come. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Family violence · United States · Cross-cultural studies · Abusive men · African American men · Psychology · Attitudes · Domestic Violence · African Americans · Asian Americans · Cross-Cultural Comparison · Hispanic Americans · Indians, North American · Men · psychology · Carrillo, Ricardo · Tello, Jerry
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(LOWER LEVEL) HV6626.52 .F35 2008 NEW BOOK(MAIN)

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(LOWER LEVEL)	HV6626.52 .F35 2008	NEW BOOK(MAIN)

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Differential Diagnoses : A Comparative History Of Health Care Problems And Solutions In The United States And France

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Paul V. Dutton
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Book, ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 2007
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Although the United States spends 16 percent of its gross domestic product on health care, more than 46 million people have no insurance coverage, while one in four Americans report difficulty paying for medical care. Indeed, the U.S. health care system, despite being the most expensive health care system in the world, ranked thirty-seventh in a comprehensive World Health Organization report. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Social medicine · United States · History · 20th century · France · Medical policy · Medical care · Health insurance · Health Services · history · Cross-Cultural Comparison · Health Care Reform · Health Policy · History, 20th Century · Insurance, Health · Dutton, Paul V
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(UPPER LEVEL) RA418.3.U6 D88 2007 DUE 12-03-09

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(UPPER LEVEL)	RA418.3.U6 D88 2007	DUE 12-03-09

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Geographies Of Sexualities : Theory, Practices, And Politics

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edited by Kath Browne, Jason Lim, Gavin Brown
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Book, Ashgate, 2007
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- Table of contents only
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Incorporating a discussion of queer geographies, “Geographies of Sexualities” engages with cutting edge agendas and challenges the orthodoxies within geography regarding spatialities and sexualities. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Homosexuality · Philosophy · Cross-cultural studies · Social aspects · Cross-Cultural Comparison · Sexual Behavior · Social Conditions · Browne, Kath · Lim, Jason · Brown, Gavin
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(LOWER LEVEL) HQ76.25 .G458 2007 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	HQ76.25 .G458 2007	AVAILABLE

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Intercultural Competence : Interpersonal Communication Across Cultures

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Myron W. Lustig, Jolene Koester
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Book, 4th ed, Allyn and Bacon, 2003
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Striking a unique balance between skills and theory, Intercultural Competence provides readers with the background and confidence to succeed in today’s multi-cultural environment. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Intercultural communication · Communicative competence · United States · Interpersonal communication · Communication · Ethnic Groups · Cross-Cultural Comparison · Interpersonal Relations · Culture · Cultural Diversity · Cultural Characteristics · Prejudice · Lustig, Myron W · Koester, Jolene
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(LOWER LEVEL) HM1211 .L87 2003 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	HM1211 .L87 2003	AVAILABLE

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The Native Mind And The Cultural Construction Of Nature

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Scott Atran and Douglas Medin
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Book, MIT Press, 2008
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These studies, which involve a series of targeted comparisons among cultural groups living in the same environment and engaged in the same activities, reveal critical universal aspects of mind as well as equally critical cultural differences. Atran and Medin find that, despite a base of universal processes, the cultural differences in understandings of nature are associated with significant differences in environmental decision making as well as intergroup conflict and stereotyping stemming from these differences. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Cognition and culture · Cognition · Biological Sciences · Cross-Cultural Comparison · Ethnology · Nature · Atran, Scott, 1952- · Medin, Douglas L
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(LOWER LEVEL) BF311 .A755 2008 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	BF311 .A755 2008	AVAILABLE

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The Big Necessity : The Unmentionable World Of Human Waste And Why It Matters

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Rose George
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Book, 1st ed, Metropolitan Books, 2008
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An utterly original exploration of the world of human waste that will surprise, outrage?and entertain Produced behind closed doors, disposed of discreetly, and hidden by euphemism, bodily waste is something common to all and as natural as breathing, yet we prefer not to talk about it. Moving from the deep underground sewers of Paris, London, and New York?an infrastructure disaster waiting to happen?to an Indian slum where ten toilets are shared by 60,000 people, Rose George stops along the way to explore the potential saviors: China?s five million biogas digesters, which produce energy from waste; (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Sanitation · Health aspects · Feces · Sewage · Cross-Cultural Comparison · Hygiene · Socioeconomic Factors · Toilet Facilities · George, Rose, 1969-
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(UPPER LEVEL) RA567 .G46 2008 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	RA567 .G46 2008	AVAILABLE

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On Knowing And Not Knowing In The Anthropology Of Medicine

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edited by Roland Littlewood
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Book, Left Coast Press, 2007
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Social scientific studies of medicine typically assume that systems of medical knowledge are uniform and consistent. But while anthropologists have long rejected the notion that cultures are discrete, bounded, and rule-drive entities, medical anthropology has been slower to develop alternative approaches to understanding cultures of health. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Medical anthropology · Traditional medicine · Cross-cultural studies · Anthropology · Cross-Cultural Comparison · Medicine, Traditional · Littlewood, Roland
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(LOWER LEVEL) GN296 .O5 2007 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	GN296 .O5 2007	AVAILABLE

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A History Of Children : A Socio-cultural Survey Across Millennia

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A.R. Colón with P.A. Colón
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Book, Greenwood Press, 2001
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A History of Children investigates the treatment of children throughout the millennia, examining and comparing, in the timeline from prehistory to the present, cultural codes, and societal laws. A recurrent theme in the book is the unchanging, immutable nature of childhood despite epochal and societal differences in birth rituals, education, puberty rituals, inheritance laws, child labor legislation, cultural customs, and historical events that have affected the lives of children over the last 5000 years. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Children · History · Children, Prehistoric · Cross-cultural studies · Social conditions · Child · Social Conditions · history · Cross-Cultural Comparison · Colón, A. R · Colón, P. A
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(LOWER LEVEL) HQ767.85 .C65 2001 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	HQ767.85 .C65 2001	AVAILABLE

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Multicultural Understanding Of Child And Adolescent Psychopathology : Implications For Mental Health Assessment

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Thomas M. Achenbach, Leslie A. Rescorla
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Book, Guilford Press, 2007
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Around the world, many immigrant and minority children are immersed in mental health, social welfare, and educational systems that are ill equipped to evaluate and help them. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Child psychopathology · Cross-cultural studies · Adolescent psychopathology · Mental Disorders · Adolescent · Child · Cross-Cultural Comparison · Psychopathology · methods · Achenbach, Thomas M., 1940- · Rescorla, Leslie
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(UPPER LEVEL) RJ499 .M85 2006 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	RJ499 .M85 2006	AVAILABLE

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Developmental Contexts In Middle Childhood : Bridges To Adolescence And Adulthood

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edited by Aletha C. Huston, Marika N. Ripke
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Book, Cambridge University Press, 2006
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- Table of contents
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During middle childhood, the period between ages 5 and 12, children gain the basic tools, skills and motivations to become productive members of their society. In this book the editors assemble contributions from 15 longitudinal studies representing diverse groups in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom to learn what developmental patterns and experiences in middle childhood contexts forecast the directions children take when they reach adolescence and adulthood. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Child development · Longitudinal studies · Child psychology · Children · Preteens · Enfants · Développement · Études longitudinales · Psychologie · Préadolescents · Child Development · Adolescent Psychology · Child Psychology · Child · Cross-Cultural Comparison · Longitudinal Studies · Socialization · Huston, Aletha C · Ripke, Marika N., 1972-
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(LOWER LEVEL) HQ769 .D446 2006 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	HQ769 .D446 2006	AVAILABLE

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Dyslexia In Different Languages : Cross-linguistic Comparisons

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edited by Nata Goulandris ; consultant in dyslexia, Margaret Snowling
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Book, Whurr Publishers, 2003
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The objective of this book is to explore a variety of languages and to identify both the language specific characteristics of reading and spelling problems in each language and the core deficits that are common to all dyslexics regardless of the language of instruction. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Dyslexia · Cross-cultural studies · Language and languages · Cross-Cultural Comparison · Linguistics · Goulandris, Nata · Snowling, Margaret J
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(LOWER LEVEL) LB1050.5 .D974 2003 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	LB1050.5 .D974 2003	AVAILABLE

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The Culture Of Our Discontent : Beyond The Medical Model Of Mental Illness

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Meredith F. Small
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Book, Joseph Henry Press, 2006
Description
By many estimations, the Western medical model of mental health is dangerously incomplete. Western culture, for example, has completely embraced the medical model of mental illness. By rethinking assumptions and questioning standard treatment programs, she gradually relaxes her grip on the medical model to find a more workable solution to mental problems. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Cultural psychiatry · Mental Disorders · Cross-Cultural Comparison · Psychology, Social · Psychophysiology · Nutrition · physiology · Philosophy, Medical · Small, Meredith F
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(UPPER LEVEL) RC455.4.E8 S555 2006 LOST&PD6-11/07

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(UPPER LEVEL)	RC455.4.E8 S555 2006	LOST&PD6-11/07

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Parental Behavior In Diverse Societies

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Robert A. LeVine, editor ; Patrice M. Miller, editor ; Mary Maxwell West, editor
Publication Details
Book, Jossey-Bass, 1988
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Father and child · Cross-cultural studies · Mother and child · Parent and child · Child psychology · Child development · Cross-Cultural Comparison · Maternal Behavior · Paternal Behavior · Cultural Characteristics · Child Rearing · Parent-Child Relations · LeVine, Robert Alan, 1932- · Miller, Patrice M · West, Mary Maxwell
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(LOWER LEVEL) HQ755.8 .P37 1988 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	HQ755.8 .P37 1988	AVAILABLE

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Child Care In Context : Cross-cultural Perspectives

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edited by Michael E. Lamb … [et al.]
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Book, Lawrence Erlbaum, 1992
Description
Child care is an integral part of the web of influences and experiences that shape children’s development. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach that covers both historic and economic contexts, this unique book characterizes child care in 18 countries on five continents. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Child care · Cross-cultural studies · Day care centers · Child Care · trends · Child, Preschool · Cross-Cultural Comparison · Lamb, Michael E., 1953-
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(LOWER LEVEL) HQ778.5 .C49 1992 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	HQ778.5 .C49 1992	AVAILABLE

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