Culture, Mind, and Society: The Social Determinants of Health in Aboriginal Australia

Burbank, V.

Health inequality is a global issue. This book examines the problem through an in-depth look at a remote Australian Aboriginal community characterized by a degree of premature morbidity and mortality similar to that in other disadvantaged populations. Its synthesis of cognitive anthropology with frameworks drawn from epidemiology, evolutionary theory, and social, psychological and biological sciences illuminates the actions, emotions, and stresses of daily life. While this analysis implicates structures and processes of inequality in the genesis of ill health, its focus remains on the people who suffer, grieve, and live with the dilemmas of an intercultural life.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2011-01-10

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230110229

DOI: 10.1057/9780230117228

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 219