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1 online resource (266 pages) |
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Cultural Perspectives on Mental Wellbeing -- Spiritual Interpretations of Symptoms in Medical Practice by Dr Natalie Tobert; Foreword by Michael Cornwall PhD; Acknowledgements; Preface; PART ONE; Introduction; 1. Consensual Reality, Spirituality and Religion; 2. Culture, Nationality and Ethnicity; 3. Cultural Beliefs about Health and Illness; 4. The Human Body ; 5. Beliefs about Conception and Human Identity; 6. Women's Bodies and Human Behaviour ; 7. Cultural U-Turns and Changing Responses to Consensus; PART TWO; 8. Cultural Knowledge on Death and Dying. |
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9. Cultural Beliefs about Survival Beyond Death10. Anomalous Experiences: A. Religious and Spiritual Experiences ; 11. Anomalous Experiences: B. Near-Death Experiences (NDE), Out-of-Body Experiences (OBE), End-of-Life Experiences (ELE) ; 12. Anomalous Experiences: C. Cultural Interpretations of Mental Health; 13. Anomalous Experiences: D. Popular Uprisings and Spiritual Awakening; 14. Anomalous Experiences: E. Deliberate Shifts in Consciousness; 15. Why Address Cultural Understandings and Academic Fixity?; 16. Acknowledging Dissonance as a Way Forward ; 17. Towards Positive Change. |
| Bibliography |
BibliographySubject Index; Author Index. |
| Summary |
Providing much needed understandings of cultural differences in attitudes and beliefs towards issues such as illness, death and mental health, this book is a remedy against the cultural dissonance occurring at present between Western medical systems and their increasingly diverse patients, in order to facilitate integrated and suitable care. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Mental health.
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Mental health. |
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Psychiatric ethics.
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Psychiatric ethics. |
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Culture.
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Culture. |
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Religion.
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Religion. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Cornwall, Michael.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tobert, Natalie. Cultural Perspectives on Mental Wellbeing : Spiritual Interpretations of Symptoms in Medical Practice. London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, ©2016 9781785920844 |
| ISBN |
9781784503451 |
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1784503452 |
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9781785920844 |
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1785920847 |
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