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Healing our differences : the crisis of global health and the politics of identity / Collins O. Airhihenbuwa.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Airhihenbuwa, Collins O.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World health.
- Social medicine.
- Identity (Philosophical concept)--Social aspects.
- Identity (Philosophical concept).
- Social aspects.
- Global Health.
- Africa.
- Culture.
- International Cooperation.
- Social Identification.
- Social Medicine.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Medical Subjects:
- Global Health.
- Africa.
- Culture.
- International Cooperation.
- Social Identification.
- Social Medicine.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 215 pages: illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2006]
- Summary:
- This book locates identity at the center of discourses on global health with particular reference to African experiences. It challenges scholars and practitioners to understand that global health must be anchored in celebrating differences in identity. A central theme in the book is to affirm celebration of different identities as central to public health landscape. Such an approach promotes multiple truths rather than a universal truth that ignores differences.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0742539814
- 9780742539815
- 0742539822
- 9780742539822
- OCLC:
- 69672813
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