Collins O. Airhihenbuwa

Healing Our Differences (eBook, PDF)

The Crisis of Global Health and the Politics of Identity

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Healing Our Differences: The Crisis of Global Health and the Politics of Identity asserts that the public health mission and the question of an individual identity are inseparable. Airhihenbuwa deftly explains how the rise in a more uniform, apolitical view of healthcare and health services leads to the devaluation of individual cultures and communities that in turn leads to inequality in the outcome of health care. Citing examples in African and African American communities, Airhihenbuwa shows how an individual cultural need can be lost or silenced in the face of a single uniform statement of public health care. The opportunity presented in this book is one that allows readers to move beyond the individualized notion of identity by allowing instead a collective notion of identity, representative of a community with its own needs, cultural expressions, and meanings. This book affirms public health as a landscape where differences that make differences are promoted and encouraged. Such a public health landscape promotes multiple truths rather than a universal truth.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216283676
• Artikelnr.: 75140779

Autorenporträt

Collins O. Airhihenbuwa is professor in the department of biobehavioral health at Penn State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 The Cultural Politics of Identity
Chapter 2 To Think Locally and Act Globally?
Chapter 3 Language Elasticity: The intersection of the senses
Chapter 4 Ethics and the Politics of Professionalism
Chapter 5 Ethnicity And Race: A New Double Consciousness?
Chapter 6 Omon: The Cultural Meanings of Childhood and Youth Identity
Chapter 7 Listening to Her Eyes: Where Motherhood meets Sisterhood
Chapter 8 Healing Illness and affirming Health in African
Chapter 9 The Future Of Health Promotion: The Legacy of Paulo Freire
Chapter 10 Spirituality: The Site of the True Otherness
Chapter 11 In The Valley Of Selfhood And Mountains Of Cultures:
Contextualizing HIV/AIDS communications
Chapter 12 Of Culture And Multiverse: Renouncing The Universal Truth In
Health
Chapter 13 The Way Forward