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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List offigures page viii Foreword by ANTHPNY T. CARTER ix Preface xv 1 Medical anthropology and the problem of belief 1 2 Illness representations in medical anthropology: a reading of the field 25 3 How medicine constructs its objects ...
List offigures page viii Foreword by ANTHPNY T. CARTER ix Preface xv 1 Medical anthropology and the problem of belief 1 2 Illness representations in medical anthropology: a reading of the field 25 3 How medicine constructs its objects ...
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Medicine, Rationality, and Experience is a large work. As Morgan “discovered” or ''invented” kinship as a cultural domain and an object of anthropological investigation, so Good here finds a definition of illness, providing medical ...
Medicine, Rationality, and Experience is a large work. As Morgan “discovered” or ''invented” kinship as a cultural domain and an object of anthropological investigation, so Good here finds a definition of illness, providing medical ...
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Here Good suggests that medical anthropology “can bring method to the cross-cultural investigation of illness experience” (p. 134) by examining the phenomenology of these experiences, the ways in which they are narrated and the rituals ...
Here Good suggests that medical anthropology “can bring method to the cross-cultural investigation of illness experience” (p. 134) by examining the phenomenology of these experiences, the ways in which they are narrated and the rituals ...
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shape illness and illness experience are inherently social. For Good the meaning of illness is constructed through narrative practices in which sufferers, their families and other associates, and healers all participate.
shape illness and illness experience are inherently social. For Good the meaning of illness is constructed through narrative practices in which sufferers, their families and other associates, and healers all participate.
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My own work has advanced a view of illness as a “syndrome of experience,” “a set of words, experiences, and feelings which typically 'run together' for members of a society” (B. Good 1977: 27). Drawing on research on popular illness ...
My own work has advanced a view of illness as a “syndrome of experience,” “a set of words, experiences, and feelings which typically 'run together' for members of a society” (B. Good 1977: 27). Drawing on research on popular illness ...
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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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Medicine, Rationality and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective Byron J. Good,Good Limited preview - 1994 |
Medicine, Rationality and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective Byron Good No preview available - 1994 |
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| Title | Medicine, Rationality and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures |
| Author | Byron J. Good |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1993 |
| ISBN | 1316582485, 9781316582480 |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social Social Science / Anthropology / General |
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