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Healing our differences : the crisis of global health and the politics of identity
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- Creator
- Collins O. Airhihenbuwa
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2006]
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 215 pages : illustrations ; cm
- ISBNs
- 0742539814, 9780742539815, 0742539822, 9780742539822
- OCLC
- ocm69672813
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-210) and index.
- 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
Subjects
- World health.
- Social medicine.
- Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Social aspects.
- Global Health.
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- Culture.
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- International Cooperation.
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- Social Identification.
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- Social Medicine.
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- Socioeconomic Factors.
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