Manual of Primary Health Care
Author: Peter M. M. Pritchard
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780192613554
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Critical Epidemiology and the People's Health
Author: Jaime Breilh
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2021-01-15
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 0190492783
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A groundbreaking approach to critical epidemiology for understanding the complexity of the health process and studying the social determination of health. A powerful critique of Cartesian health sciences, of the flaws of "functional health determinants" model, and of reductionist approaches to health statistics, qualitative research and conventional health geography. A consolidated and well sustained essay that explains the role of social-gender-ethnic relations in the reproduction of health inequity, proposing a new paradigm with indispensible concepts and methodological means to develop a new understanding of health as a socially determined and distributed process. It combines the strengths of scientific traditions of the North and South, to bring forward a new understanding and application of qualitative and quantitative (statistical) evidences, that looks beyond the limits of conventional epidemiology, public and population health. The book presents alternative conceptions and tools for constructing deep prevention. A neo-humanist conception of the role of health and life sciences that assumes critical, intercultural and transdisciplinary thinking as a fundamental tool beyond the limiting elitist framework of positivist reasoning. A most important source of fresh ideas and practical instruments for teaching, research and agency, based on a renewed conception of the relation between nature, society, health and environmental problems"--
The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Latin America
Author: Xochitl Bada
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-04-09
Total Pages: 896
ISBN-13: 0190926589
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe sociology of Latin America, established in the region over the past eighty years, is a thriving field whose major contributions include dependence theory, world-systems theory, and historical debates on economic development, among others. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Latin America provides research essays that introduce the readers to the discipline's key areas and current trends, specifically with regard to contemporary sociology in Latin America, as well as a collection of innovative empirical studies deploying a variety of qualitative and quantitative methodologies. The essays in the Handbook are arranged in eight research subfields in which scholars are currently making significant theoretical and methodological contributions: Sociology of the State, Social Inequalities, Sociology of Religion, Collective Action and Social Movements, Sociology of Migration, Sociology of Gender, Medical Sociology, and Sociology of Violence and Insecurity. Due to the deterioration of social and economic conditions, as well as recent disruptions to an already tense political environment, these have become some of the most productive and important fields in Latin American sociology. This roiling sociopolitical atmosphere also generates new and innovative expressions of protest and survival, which are being explored by sociologists across different continents today. The essays included in this collection offer a map to and a thematic articulation of central sociological debates that make it a critical resource for those scholars and students eager to understand contemporary sociology in Latin America.
The Taste for Knowledge
Author: Sylvie Fainzang
Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Published: 2010-12-15
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 8779344410
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Taste for Knowledge: Medical Anthropology Facing Medical Realities demonstrates how medical anthropology is becoming increasingly important in the fields of medical research and public health. The authors examine some of the major issues in medical anthropology today. In this volume, a group of international researchers reflect, for example, on: the way anthropology faces and deals with interdisciplinarity in its encounter with medicine and doctors; the new medical realities and patient strategies that exist in changing medical systems; and the interactions between practice, power and science. The book will appeal to clinicians/practitioners, anthropologists in general, and all those engaged in the interface between medicine and anthropology, but will also be a valuable tool for students of medicine and anthropology who have a special interest in the social realities and interdisciplinarity of health and illness.
Ibero-American Bioethics
Author: Léo Pessini
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2009-12-16
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 1402093500
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the first in a series of planned volumes focused on preserving the character of the development of bioethics in particular cultural contexts. As the first of these volumes, Leo Pessini, Christian de Paul de Barchifontaine, and Fernando Lolas Stepke’s work has succeeded well. It has brought together accounts by sch- ars who were crucial to the emergence of bioethics in the Ibero-American cultural domain. This trail-blazing work in the history of bioethics will be of enduring s- nificance. I am deeply in their debt for having shouldered this far from easy task. Bioethics is the product of very particular socio-historical developments. Most prominent among them have been (1) the secularization of the dominant culture of North America, Western Europe, and now Central and South America as well, (2) a deflation of the status and authority of physicians as moral authorities able to guide their own profession, and (3) the salience of a post-traditional animus that gives c- tral place to persons as isolated atomic sources of moral authority. Bioethics initially took shape in North America as a post-Christian, post-professional, post-traditional social movement. This bioethics sought to establish a moral discourse for the public forum, a moral practice able to give practical guidance in hospitals and other insti- tions, and a body of undergirding and justifying theoretical reflections.
Philosophical and Methodological Debates in Public Health
Author: Jordi Vallverdú
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2019-10-16
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 3030286266
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis interdisciplinary volume gathers selected, refereed contributions on various aspects of public health from several disciplines and research fields, including the philosophy of science, epidemiology, statistics and ethics. The contributions were originally presented at the 1st Barcelona conference of “Philosophy of Public Health” (5th – 7th May 2016). This book is intended for researchers interested in public health and the contemporary debates surrounding it.
In Pursuit of Health Equity
Author: Eric D. Carter
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2023-07-05
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1469674467
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout Latin America, social medicine has been widely recognized for its critical perspectives on mainstream understandings of health and for its progressive policy achievements. Nevertheless, it has been an elusive subject: hard to define, with puzzling historical discontinuities and misconceptions about its origins. Drawing on a vast archive and with an ambitious narrative scope that transcends national borders, Eric D. Carter offers the first comprehensive intellectual and political history of the social medicine movement in Latin America, from the early twentieth century to the present day. While maintaining a consistent focus on health equity, social medicine has evolved with changing conditions in the region. Carter shows how it shaped early Latin American welfare states, declined with the dominance of midcentury technocratic health planning, resurged in the 1970s in solidarity against authoritarian regimes, and later resisted neoliberal reforms of the health sector. He centers socialist and anarchist doctors, political exiles, intellectuals, populist leaders, and rebellious technocrats from Argentina, Chile, Brazil, and other countries who responded to and shaped a dynamic political environment around health equity. The lessons from this history will inform new thinking about how to achieve health equity in the twenty-first century.
Psicología Básica para Ciencias de la Salud
Author: Fernando Calvo Francés
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2013-08-07
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 8461657950
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPsicología Básica para Ciencias de la Salud no es un texto erudito para expertos, ni tampoco un libro de divulgación. Es un manual de texto orientado a estudiantes de la rama sanitaria (enfermería, medicina, fisioterapia, terapia ocupacional) que compendia una serie de conceptos y saberes, tanto teóricos como prácticos, seleccionados tras una experiencia docente de más de 20 años del autor. Saberes de primera necesidad para el quehacer diario del clínico. No trata de formar pequeños psicólogos, sino dotar al profesional sanitario no psicólogo de los conocimientos necesarios para desenvolverse adecuadamente en el manejo de los aspectos psicológicos del proceso salud- enfermedad. En este manual, además de los conceptos básicos necesarios para comprender el comportamiento humano ante la salud y su pérdida, se hace especial hincapié en la comunicación y la terapia de apoyo psicológico, como herramientas centrales de la intervención psicológica de los profesionales de la salud no psicólogos.
Essentials of Global Mental Health
Author: Samuel O. Okpaku
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-02-27
Total Pages: 469
ISBN-13: 1107022320
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDefines an approach to mental healthcare focused on achieving international equity in coverage, options and outcomes.
Critical Medical Anthropology
Author: Jennie Gamlin
Publisher: UCL Press
Published: 2020-03-12
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 1787355829
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCritical Medical Anthropology presents inspiring work from scholars doing and engaging with ethnographic research in or from Latin America, addressing themes that are central to contemporary Critical Medical Anthropology (CMA). This includes issues of inequality, embodiment of history, indigeneity, non-communicable diseases, gendered violence, migration, substance abuse, reproductive politics and judicialisation, as these relate to health. The collection of ethnographically informed research, including original theoretical contributions, reconsiders the broader relevance of CMA perspectives for addressing current global healthcare challenges from and of Latin America. It includes work spanning four countries in Latin America (Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala and Peru) as well as the trans-migratory contexts they connect and are defined by. By drawing on diverse social practices, it addresses challenges of central relevance to medical anthropology and global health, including reproduction and maternal health, sex work, rare and chronic diseases, the pharmaceutical industry and questions of agency, political economy, identity, ethnicity, and human rights.
