Commentary: Taking culture seriously in health research
Open Access
- 22 November 2005
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in International Journal of Epidemiology
- Vol. 35 (2) , 258-259
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyi236
Abstract
Richard Eckersley1 deserves credit for discussing ‘culture’ seriously as a determinant of health. As he points out, culture is so encompassing, and hence taken for granted, that unless we observe something foreign to our own socialization, it is easy to forget that culture is even there (a fact justifying anthropologists' insistence on fieldwork outside their own society). Unfortunately, however, Eckersley's theoretical orientation is problematic in several ways, thus undermining his aim.Keywords
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