Clinical Anthropology

This unique book applies concepts from the field of anthropology to clinical settings to result in a powerful and dynamic model/theory of clinical anthropology. These clinical settings could include hospitals police and probation situations individual and marriage and family counseling as well as cross-cultural issues governmental policy and other instances of educational delivery of concepts and behaviors that allow individuals/groups to reduce stress and move toward personal/group health. In addition to appealing to anthropology and other social/behavioral science scholars this book will be useful to clinicians of many specialities within Western biomedicine including physicians nurses and health care administrators.