Health and Culture

• Main Author: Quah, S.
• Other Authors: SOCIOLOGY
• Format: Others
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: "Neoclassical" approaches, works of Weber, Durkheim, and Marx; Culture and health behavior; Culture and illness behavior; Culture and its pervasiveness; Culture and its relevance in health and illness; Culture and preventive health behavior; Kluckhohn's culture - "a map" or "abstract representation" of community's way of life; Parsons' concepts of culture and cultural traditions; Term "culture" - varying across disciplines and conceptual perspectives; Weber's concept of traditional action and culture and health relationship
• Online Access: http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/114224
• Institution: National University of Singapore

10.1002/9781444314786.ch2