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Culturally adaptive counseling skills
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Miguel E. Gallardo |
"A key supplement for courses on multicultural counseling, this book is a practical volume that will help faculty and students see demonstrations of multicultural counseling in practice. The text cov… |
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Traditional medicine
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Steven B. Kayne |
This is a contributed text on traditional medicines throughout the world. Over one-third of the population in developing countries lack access to essential medicines. The provision of safe and effect… |
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Bastardy and its comparative history
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Richard Michael Smith,Peter Laslett |
"This is the first historical and sociological examination of bastardy ... during a four hundred year span ... the authors find: (1) distinct temporal and regional patterns in illegitimacy, as regula… |
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Disgust and its disorders
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Dean McKay |
"Disgust and Its Disorders: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment Implications thoughtfully examines the role of disgust in psychopathology by highlighting important theoretical and methodological develo… |
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Mental health, race, and culture
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Suman Fernando |
"This is the third, significantly expanded and revised, edition of this seminal text. Incorporating additional contemporary topics, including mental health of refugees, trauma and psychosocial approa… |
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Multicultural manners
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Norine Dresser |
Both highly informative and entertaining, Multicultural Manners gives readers the understanding they need, the perfect words to say, and the correct behavior to use in a wide range of cross-cultural … |
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Aging Asia
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Karen Eggleston,Shripad Tuljapurkar |
Demographic shift. Whatever you call it, Asia is aging, and this development will radically alter the region--and the globe--for decades to come.
In the Past Fifty Years, two factors have led to glo… |
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Brotherhood
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Deepak Chopra |
Traces the lives of the Chopra brothers from India to America, where they both excelled in healing, one as a world-renowned spiritual teacher, the other as a professor at Harvard Medical School. |
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Interpersonal violent behaviors
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Neil Alan Weiner,R. Barry Ruback |
"This expanded book version of a special issue of the journal Violence and Victims analyzes the social and cultural factors that influence violent behaviors. The editors and contributors discuss the … |
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Challenging inequities in health
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Timothy Evans |
This text provides a unique view of global inequities in health status and health sytems. Emphasizing socioeconomic conditions, it combines chapters on conceptual and measurement issues with case stu… |
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The obesity epidemic in North America
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Anna W. Bellisari |
Obesity prevalence in the U.S. is the highest among developed countries, a situation that calls for a nationwide understanding of this complex phenomenon. Brief yet comprehensive, The Obesity Epidemi… |
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A Mind of Its Own
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David M. Friedman,Isabel Murillo Fort |
"Whether enemy or ally, demon or god, the source of satisfaction or the root of all earthly troubles, the penis has forced humanity to wrestle with its enduring mysteries. Here, in an enlightening an… |
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Comparative and international education
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Karen E. Mundy |
This comprehensive book explores major issues in education today through international and intercultural research. The contributors draw on comparative research from North America, Africa, Asia, Lati… |
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Medicine & culture
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Lynn Payer |
Ein sehr lehrreiches und amüsant zu lesendes Buch über die Einflüsse der jeweiligen Volkskultur auf die jeweilige Sicht von Medizin und auf ihre Anwendung in den einzelnen Ländern. |
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Caring for patients from different cultures
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Geri-Ann Galanti |
What happens when a Cherokee patient summons a medicine man to the hospital, or when an Anglo nurse refuses to take orders from a Japanese doctor? Why do Asian patients rarely ask for pain medication… |
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Culture in clinical care
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Laura Martin,Bette Bonder,Andrew W. Miracle |
"Culture in Clinical Care: Strategies for Competence explores theory and practice to define and describe the multidimensional nature of culture and its interaction with an individual's experience in … |
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World hunger
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Patricia L. Kutzner |
Gives a broad overview of the many dimensions of world hunger, focusing specifically on the context of economic, social, political, and scientific contraints that affect global food security. |
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Mythologies, histoires, actualités des drogues
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Claude Meyers |
Les drogues étaient bien connues des Anciens, les opiacés dans le monde gréco-romain, le cannabis chez le Vieux de la montagne dans le Caucase, la coca chez lez Incas, les champignons hallucinogènes … |
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Cross-cultural approaches to the study of alcohol
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Conference on Alcohol Studies and Anthropology University of Chicago 1973. |
Examines the relationship between alcohol studies and the cross-cultural perspective of anthropology. |
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Evolution's Rainbow
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Joan Roughgarden |
In this book, the author challenges accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation. She takes on the medical establishment, the Bible, social science--and even Darwin himself. She leads… |
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