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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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 anthropology with an object of study and a program of ...
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 anthropology with an object of study and a program of ...
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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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... with medicine, public health, and human ecology providing models for the study of disease and its place in biological systems, and social and cultural studies investigating human adaptation and responses to disease.
... with medicine, public health, and human ecology providing models for the study of disease and its place in biological systems, and social and cultural studies investigating human adaptation and responses to disease.
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Within anthropology today, I would argue that medical anthropology is the primary site in which these issues are being addressed and investigated. While studies in medical anthropology share many philosophical issues with kinship ...
Within anthropology today, I would argue that medical anthropology is the primary site in which these issues are being addressed and investigated. While studies in medical anthropology share many philosophical issues with kinship ...
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... has unique concerns with issues of biology and culture, with human suffering and ritual efforts to manage disorder and personal threat, and thus with the investigation of human experience and the existential grounds of culture.
... has unique concerns with issues of biology and culture, with human suffering and ritual efforts to manage disorder and personal threat, and thus with the investigation of human experience and the existential grounds of culture.
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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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