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  • Facing Death Across Cultures

    Health and Mortality in a Diverse World

    by Stephen Henry Fox ...
    This book is an invaluable resource for understanding the profound connections between culture, healthcare, and mortality. In a world where healthcare professionals – doctors, nurses, clients, patients, and staff – are increasingly engaging in cross-cultural interactions, this text equips readers with essential insights to navigate diverse beliefs and expectations surrounding health and treatment, ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

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  • Crazy Like Us

    The Globalization of the American Psyche

    by Ethan Watters ...
    “A blistering and truly original work of reporting and analysis, uncovering America’s role in homogenizing how the world defines wellness and healing” (Po Bronson).In Crazy Like Us, Ethan Watters reveals that the most devastating consequence of the spread of American culture has not been our golden arches or our bomb craters but our bulldozing of the human psyche itself: We are in the process of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Reflections from Common Ground . . . Cultural Awareness in Healthcare

    by Beth Lincoln ...
    Reflections from Common Ground . . . Cultural Awareness in Healthcare, showcases many of the opportunities and tools available for healthcare professionals to develop cultural awareness and competency. This unique book offers a way forward and easily lends itself to personal, group or institutional use. It is a tool to promote change, while also an interesting look into the origins of what we ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Nurturing Our Humanity

    How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future

    by Riane Eisler, Douglas P. Fry ...
    Nurturing Our Humanity offers a new perspective on our personal and social options in today's world, showing how we can build societies that support our great human capacities for consciousness, caring, and creativity. It brings together findings--largely overlooked--from the natural and social sciences debunking the popular idea that we are hard-wired for selfishness, war, rape, and greed. Its ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Depression in Japan

    Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress

    by Junko Kitanaka ...
    A study of the effect of depression and psychiatry on Japanese society—"A triumph, perhaps even a classic" ( Times Higher Education, UK)."Fully engaged with the scholarly literature, and steeped in detail and description, this exemplary book is clearly the product of great care and careful listening and observation. With its high quality, simplicity, and eloquence, it is bound to become the book ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Friendship

    Development, Ecology, and Evolution of a Relationship

    by Daniel J. Hruschka ...
    Series Book 5 - Origins of Human Behavior and Culture
    Friends-they are generous and cooperative with each other in ways that appear to defy standard evolutionary expectations, frequently sacrificing for one another without concern for past behaviors or future consequences. In this fascinating multidisciplinary study, Daniel J. Hruschka synthesizes an array of cross-cultural, experimental, and ethnographic data to understand the broad meaning of ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Occupational Therapies without Borders - Volume 2

    Towards an ecology of occupation-based practices

    Edited by Frank Kronenberg, Nick Pollard, Dikaios Sakellariou ...
    The companion text to Occupational Therapy without Borders - Volume 1: learning from the spirit of survivors! In this landmark text writers from around the world discuss a plurality of occupation-based approaches that explicitly acknowledge the full potential of the art and science of occupational therapy. The profession is presented as a political possibilities-based practice, concerned with what ... Read more

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  • Dimensions of Culture: Cross-Cultural Communications for Healthcare Professionals

    by Marcia Carteret ...
    In cross-cultural health care interactions, there are many situations where communication is challenging because patients and their families exhibit different values, beliefs, and behaviors from those of their American physicians. Physicians educated in western medicine, who work in the health care system in the United States, operate within a highly specific medical culture though they may not ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Leininger's Transcultural Nursing: Concepts, Theories, Research & Practice, Fourth Edition

    by Marilyn R. McFarland, Hiba B. Wehbe-Alamah ...
    The Cornerstone Text on Transcultural Nursing Concepts – Updated with the Latest Advances and BreakthroughsA Doody’s Core Title for 2024 & 2021!Leininger’s Transcultural Nursing: Concepts, Theories, Research & Practices, Fourth Edition offers theoretical and practical guidance about the provision of client-focused care by integrating cultural values, beliefs, and lifeways into an individualized ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Developing Cross-Cultural Competence

    A Guide for Working with Children and Their Families

    by Sam Chan Ph.D., Vivian Jackson "M.S.W., Ph.D.", Namita Jacob Ph.D., Jennie Joe "M.P.H., M.A.", Wendy Jones "M.Ed., M.S.W.", Randi Malach CCC-SLP, Noreen Mokuau D.S.W., Rosa Santos Ph.D., Virginia-Shirin Sharifzadeh Ph.D., Pemerika TauiliÆili M.A., Maria Zuniga "M.S.W., Ph.D.", Tawara D. Goode M.A., M.A., Dr. Deborah Chen, Ph.D. ...
    As the U.S. population grows more and more diverse, how can professionals who work with young children and families deliver the best services while honoring different customs, beliefs, and values? The answers are in the fourth edition of this bestselling textbook, fully revised to reflect nearly a decade of population changes and best practices in culturally competent service delivery.The gold ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Seven Decades

    How We Evolved to Live Longer

    by Michael D. Gurven ...
    An anthropologist uncovers new evidence for the evolutionary origins of human longevity—and explains why growing old is an opportunity, not a burdenOur ability to live for decades may seem like a modern luxury made possible by clean water and advances in medicine. In fact, human longevity is a legacy of our unique evolutionary path as a species. Seven Decades challenges the belief that life in the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Routledge International Handbook of Mad Studies

    Edited by Peter Beresford, Jasna Russo ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    By drawing broadly on international thinking and experience, this book offers a critical exploration of Mad Studies and advances its theory and practice.Comprised of 34 chapters written by international leading experts, activists and academics, this handbook introduces and advances Mad Studies, as well as exploring resistance and criticism, and clarifying its history, ideas, what it is, and what ... Read more

    $61.99 USD