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This lively text by leading medical anthropologist Elisa Sobo offers a unique, holistic approach to human diversity and rises to the challenge of truly integrating biology and culture.

A practical guide to applying interpretive qualitative methods to pressing healthcare delivery problems.

Child Health Services Research offers a practical introduction to the foundations, primary methods, and applications of children's health services research. This valuable resource describes various approaches to children's health services research, shows how these approaches differ from methods used in relation to adult health, and demonstrates the value that can be added by outcomes research. In doing so, Child Health Services Research also e...

This is the first cross-cultural inquiry into the practice of celibacy around the world and through the ages, among groups as diverse as Kenyan villagers and U.S. prisoners, Mazatec Shamans and Buddhist nuns and monks, Shaker church members, and anorexic women.The examples of celibacy described here illustrate the complex relationship between human sexuality and its particular sociocultural context. Ideas about the body, gender, family, work, ...

A practical guide to applying interpretive qualitative methods to pressing healthcare delivery problems.

A "one size fits all" approach to health care doesn't work well, especially for America's extremely diverse population. This book provides a lively and accessible discussion of how and why a more flexible and culturally sensitive system of health care can--and must be--achieved.

In an effort to explain why AIDS education efforts failed to stop clients from practicing unsafe sex, E.J. Sobo explored the links between women's condom use rate and their experiences and understandings of heterosexual relationships.