Health, Rights, and Culture: Reflections on the Meanings of the Word "Rights" from a Cross-cultural Health Worker

Crossing cultures challenges the way one thinks about health and rights. Cultural anthropology provides a framework that helps clarify these issues by categorising cultures by their dominant method of governing behaviour and maintaining social order: 1. Guilt-Innocence cultures, 2. Honour-Shame cult...

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Main Author: Lois Joy Armstrong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Health for All Nations 2019-01-01
Series:Christian Journal for Global Health
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Online Access:https://journal.cjgh.org/index.php/cjgh/article/view/269/605