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health culture, a system that attempts to explain and treat sickness and to maintain health. Health cultures are a component of the larger culture or tradition of a people and may be a popular or folk system or a technical or scientific one. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| He describes how popular health culture represents the causes of such illnesses and the vectors that transmit them, and how rigorous research that considers those local perceptions can lead to viable options in communicating about health and delivering it. They engage with bodily practice in the extreme as part of the process of constantly (re)constituting a self which both complies with, mediates and resists dominant discourses of the body and health culture in schools. Health Culture and Leisure: Native American Elders' Voices |
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