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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The Victorians felt the family to be closely linked to the natural order, both biological and moral. Other forms of accounting kin and forming families were felt to be unnatural, abhorrently so. If we contemplate for a moment our own ...
The Victorians felt the family to be closely linked to the natural order, both biological and moral. Other forms of accounting kin and forming families were felt to be unnatural, abhorrently so. If we contemplate for a moment our own ...
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For the Victorians, their system of family relations was felt to be such an achievement, a highly evolved realization of the natural order. We in the twentieth century conceive medicine to be a similar achievement.
For the Victorians, their system of family relations was felt to be such an achievement, a highly evolved realization of the natural order. We in the twentieth century conceive medicine to be a similar achievement.
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More specifically, I have explored the idea that a view of scientific language as largely transparent to the natural world, a kind of “mirror of nature,” which has been an important line of argument in philosophy since the Enlightenment ...
More specifically, I have explored the idea that a view of scientific language as largely transparent to the natural world, a kind of “mirror of nature,” which has been an important line of argument in philosophy since the Enlightenment ...
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And lying beneath these debates are opposing views of how historicism - the view that “human understanding is always a 'captive' of its historical situation” (D'Amico 1989: x) - can come to terms with the natural sciences ...
And lying beneath these debates are opposing views of how historicism - the view that “human understanding is always a 'captive' of its historical situation” (D'Amico 1989: x) - can come to terms with the natural sciences ...
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... grounded in a natural science view of the relation between language, biology, and experience (B. Good and M. Good 1981). As George Engel (1977) and a host of medical reformers have shown, the “medical model” typically employed in ...
... grounded in a natural science view of the relation between language, biology, and experience (B. Good and M. Good 1981). As George Engel (1977) and a host of medical reformers have shown, the “medical model” typically employed in ...
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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 |
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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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