Culture Health and Disease

<p><strong>Tavistock Press</strong> was established as a co-operative venture between the <strong>Tavistock Institute</strong> and <strong>Routledge & Kegan Paul</strong> (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. <br> This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by <strong>Routledge,</strong> 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name <em>The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press</em>.<br> Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1966 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.</p> Part 1 Traditional systems of care in sickness; Chapter 1 Survival studies and health hazards; Chapter 2 Role of the kin group in illness; Chapter 3 The role of the traditional practitioner; Chapter 4 Traditional ideas about sickness and treatment; Part 2 Social groups, culture patterns, and health; Chapter 5 The human group and its integration; Chapter 6 Culture patterns and human groups; Chapter 7 Ritual, religion, and values in health practices; Part 3 The forward look and the backward glance; Chapter 8 New horizons; Chapter 9 Drugs, injections, and opening doors; Chapter 10 Channels of new ideas about health and sickness; Chapter 11 Implications for orientation and training;