Medicine, Rationality and Experience: An Anthropological PerspectiveBiomedicine is often thought to provide a scientific account of the human body and of illness. In this view, non-Western and folk medical systems are regarded as systems of 'belief' and subtly discounted. This is an impoverished perspective for understanding illness and healing across cultures, one that neglects many facets of Western medical practice and obscures its kinship with healing in other traditions. Drawing on his research in several American and Middle Eastern medical settings, in this 1993 book Professor Good develops a critical, anthropological account of medical knowledge and practice. He shows how physicians and healers enter and inhabit distinctive worlds of meaning and experience. He explores how stories or illness narratives are joined with bodily experience in shaping and responding to human suffering and argues that moral and aesthetic considerations are present in routine medical practice as in other forms of healing. |
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... American and Middle Eastern medical settings, Professor Good develops a critical, anthropological account of medical knowledge and practice. He shows how physicians and healers enter and inhabit distinctive worlds of meaning and ...
... American and Middle Eastern medical settings, Professor Good develops a critical, anthropological account of medical knowledge and practice. He shows how physicians and healers enter and inhabit distinctive worlds of meaning and ...
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... American Indian: Perspectives for the Study of Social Change Ward H. Goodenough: Description and Comparison in Cultural Anthropology Robert J. Smith: Japanese Society: Tradition, Self, and the Social Order Sally Falk Moore: Social Facts ...
... American Indian: Perspectives for the Study of Social Change Ward H. Goodenough: Description and Comparison in Cultural Anthropology Robert J. Smith: Japanese Society: Tradition, Self, and the Social Order Sally Falk Moore: Social Facts ...
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... America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521425766 © Cambridge University Press 1994 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the ...
... America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521425766 © Cambridge University Press 1994 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the ...
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... American Indian, Robert McC. Adams' The Evolution of Urban Society, Victor Turner's The Ritual Process, and Ward ... America. Nevertheless, as Professor Harris noted in his Foreword to Meyer Fortes' inaugural Lectures, Morgan was ...
... American Indian, Robert McC. Adams' The Evolution of Urban Society, Victor Turner's The Ritual Process, and Ward ... America. Nevertheless, as Professor Harris noted in his Foreword to Meyer Fortes' inaugural Lectures, Morgan was ...
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... American anthropologists with experience in public health; today there are more than 1,700 members of the Society for Medical Anthropology. More importantly for its place in the field, the diverse issues that concern medical and ...
... American anthropologists with experience in public health; today there are more than 1,700 members of the Society for Medical Anthropology. More importantly for its place in the field, the diverse issues that concern medical and ...
Contents
a reading of the field | |
How medicine constructs its objects | |
Semiotics and the study of medical reality | |
a phenomenological account of chronic pain | |
The narrative representation of illness | |
Aesthetics rationality and medical anthropology | |
Notes | |
References | |
Author Index | |
Subject Index | |
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