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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... meaning and experience. He explores how stories or illness narratives are joined with bodily experience in shaping and responding to human suffering. And he argues that moral and aesthetic considerations are present in routine medical ...
... meaning and experience. He explores how stories or illness narratives are joined with bodily experience in shaping and responding to human suffering. And he argues that moral and aesthetic considerations are present in routine medical ...
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... representation of illness 135 7 Aesthetics, rationality, and medical anthropology 166 Notes 185 References 208 Author Index 234 Subject Index 239 Figures 1 Opposing domains of the meaning of “blood” page vii Contents.
... representation of illness 135 7 Aesthetics, rationality, and medical anthropology 166 Notes 185 References 208 Author Index 234 Subject Index 239 Figures 1 Opposing domains of the meaning of “blood” page vii Contents.
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An Anthropological Perspective Byron J. Good. Figures. 1 Opposing domains of the meaning of “blood” page 94 2 Opposing domains in personal and family history 95 3 Opposing domains in the body and the physical environment 96 4 Cosmological ...
An Anthropological Perspective Byron J. Good. Figures. 1 Opposing domains of the meaning of “blood” page 94 2 Opposing domains in personal and family history 95 3 Opposing domains in the body and the physical environment 96 4 Cosmological ...
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... meaning-centered approach is required, one which recognizes that the language of medicine is a “cultural language” (p. 5) and a historical formation. In the latter part of chapter 1, Good argues that, in spite of the many advances in ...
... meaning-centered approach is required, one which recognizes that the language of medicine is a “cultural language” (p. 5) and a historical formation. In the latter part of chapter 1, Good argues that, in spite of the many advances in ...
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... meaning derives instead, Good shows, from their place in dense semiotic networks. Medical terms have meaning “in relation to a field of signs” (p. 112). They have as much to do with experience, gender and society as with biology. Their ...
... meaning derives instead, Good shows, from their place in dense semiotic networks. Medical terms have meaning “in relation to a field of signs” (p. 112). They have as much to do with experience, gender and society as with biology. Their ...
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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