Clinical Anthropology: An Application of Anthropological Concepts Within Clinical Settings / Edition 1

by John Rush

Overview

This unique book applies concepts from the field of anthropology to clinical settings to result in a powerful and dynamic model/theory of clinical anthropology. These clinical settings could include hospitals, police and probation situations, individual and marriage and family counseling, as well as cross-cultural issues, governmental policy, and other instances of educational delivery of concepts and behaviors that allow individuals/groups to reduce stress and move toward personal/group health. In addition to appealing to anthropology and other social/behavioral science scholars, this book will be useful to clinicians of many specialities within Western biomedicine including physicians, nurses, and health care administrators.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275955724
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/23/1996
Series:	Economic History; 180
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

John A. Rush is a Naturopathic Physician and Certified Hypnotherapist. Dr. Rush is also an ethnobotanist and maintains an extensive garden of medicinal herbs from all over the world. He instructs for the California Board of Corrections in their STC Program, conducts research in communication patterns, nutrition, and stress reactions for CommuniEfect, a nonprofit corporation, and is a part-time instructor in cultural and physical anthropology at Cosumnes River College, Folsom, California, and at Sacramento City College, Sacramento, California. Dr. Rush earned his PhD in anthropology from Columbia Pacific University, and is the author of numerous books and texts including Witchcraft and Sorcery: An Anthropological Perspective of the Occult (1974).

Table of Contents

Preface
Becoming Who We Are
The Origins of Culture
Humans as Physical and Social Information Systems
Diagnostic Procedures
Elements of Clinical Anthropology
Culture and Conflict
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

What People are Saying About This

^B^XHoward F. Stein

John Rush's is no ordinary medical or applied medical anthropology book of the 1980's or 1990's. It is a refreshing antidote to the narrow scholarly specializations and narrow interests that have made anthropology over at least the past two decades so parochial a field. I know of no other clinical/medical anthropology work like it. In addition to appealing to graduate anthropology and other social/behavioral science scholars, this book should appeal to clinicians of many specialties within Western biomedicine.

Howard F. Stein

John Rush's is no ordinary medical or applied medical anthropology book of the 1980's or 1990's. It is a refreshing antidote to the narrow scholarly specializations and narrow interests that have made anthropology over at least the past two decades so parochial a field. I know of no other clinical/medical anthropology work like it. In addition to appealing to graduate anthropology and other social/behavioral science scholars, this book should appeal to clinicians of many specialties within Western biomedicine.

Editorial Reviews

Describes a model for dealing with the underlying social issues surrounding emotional and behavioral problems, involving integration of concepts from the biological and social sciences and emphasizing the clinician's role as a teacher. Defines clinical anthropology and shows how it differs from the approaches found in Western medical, psychological, and psychiatric practice, discusses human universals from an information processing perspective, and details a first-level process for diagnosis in clinical settings. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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