Society, health, and disease : transcultural perspectives

I. THE SOCIOCULTURAL CONTEXT OF HEALTH AND DISEASE. 1. Culture, Parental Attitudes, and Child Health in Rural Peru, Anne C. Larme. 2. Transforming Society, Transforming Medicine: Lay Medical Perceptions and Self-Medication Among Contemporary Koreans, June J. H. Lee. 3. Intrapsychic Autonomy and the Emotional Construction of Biocultural Illness: A Question of Balance, Mary Katharine Duffii?½. 4. A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Filarial Disease in the Fiji Islands, Usha K. Prasad. 5. The Demographic, Cultural and Behavioral Contexts of Maternal and Child Health in Developing Countries, Gabriel B. Fosu and Janardan Subedi. 6. Ecological and Macrolevel Influences on Illness in Northern Peru: Beyond the International Health Paradigm, Kathryn S. Oths. II. SOCIOPOLITICAL CONSTRAINTS IN HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE. 7. Inequalities in the…