Healing our differences :
Airhihenbuwa, Collins O.
Healing our differences : the crisis of global health and the politics of identity / Collins O. Airhihenbuwa. - Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2006. - xviii, 214 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
The cultural politics of identity -- To think locally and act globally? -- Language elasticity: the intersection of the senses -- Ethics and the politics of professionalism -- Ethnicity and race: a new double consciousness? -- Omon: the cultural meanings of childhood and youth identity -- Listening to her eyes: where motherhood meets sisterhood -- Healing illness and affirming health in African -- The future of health promotion: the legacy of Paulo Freire -- Spirituality: the site of the true otherness -- In the valley of selfhood and mountains of cultures: contextualizing HIV/AIDS communications -- Of culture and multiverse: renouncing the universal truth in health -- The way forward.
9780742539815 (cloth : alk. paper) 0742539814 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780742539822 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0742539822 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2006017494
World health.
Social medicine.
Social identification.
Culture
Socioeconomic factors.
International cooperation.
Africa.
WA 530 HA1 2006AI
Healing our differences : the crisis of global health and the politics of identity / Collins O. Airhihenbuwa. - Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2006. - xviii, 214 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
The cultural politics of identity -- To think locally and act globally? -- Language elasticity: the intersection of the senses -- Ethics and the politics of professionalism -- Ethnicity and race: a new double consciousness? -- Omon: the cultural meanings of childhood and youth identity -- Listening to her eyes: where motherhood meets sisterhood -- Healing illness and affirming health in African -- The future of health promotion: the legacy of Paulo Freire -- Spirituality: the site of the true otherness -- In the valley of selfhood and mountains of cultures: contextualizing HIV/AIDS communications -- Of culture and multiverse: renouncing the universal truth in health -- The way forward.
9780742539815 (cloth : alk. paper) 0742539814 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780742539822 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0742539822 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2006017494
World health.
Social medicine.
Social identification.
Culture
Socioeconomic factors.
International cooperation.
Africa.
WA 530 HA1 2006AI