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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... paradigm of the behavioral sciences of medicine. At stake also are various debates in anthropology today about how we conduct cultural studies and ultimately about what kind of human science anthropology should be. And lying beneath ...
... paradigm of the behavioral sciences of medicine. At stake also are various debates in anthropology today about how we conduct cultural studies and ultimately about what kind of human science anthropology should be. And lying beneath ...
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... paradigm, and that this concept is linked to a set of philosophic assumptions in a way that is far from obvious. I hope to show that the emergence of “belief” as a central analytic category in anthropology was a fateful development, and ...
... paradigm, and that this concept is linked to a set of philosophic assumptions in a way that is far from obvious. I hope to show that the emergence of “belief” as a central analytic category in anthropology was a fateful development, and ...
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... paradigm that frames what I have referred to as the “empiricist theory of medical knowledge.” I will indicate its relationship to the intellectualist tradition in anthropology and to debates about rationality and relativism, showing how ...
... paradigm that frames what I have referred to as the “empiricist theory of medical knowledge.” I will indicate its relationship to the intellectualist tradition in anthropology and to debates about rationality and relativism, showing how ...
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... paradigm, is constituted through the referential linking of elements in language and those in the natural world, and the meaningfulness of a proposition - including, for example, a patient's complaint or a doctor's diagnosis - is almost ...
... paradigm, is constituted through the referential linking of elements in language and those in the natural world, and the meaningfulness of a proposition - including, for example, a patient's complaint or a doctor's diagnosis - is almost ...
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... paradigm in anthropology The empiricist paradigm is most clearly represented by the intellectualist tradition in anthropology, which was prominent in Britain at the turn of the century and reemerged under the banner of Neo-Tylorianism ...
... paradigm in anthropology The empiricist paradigm is most clearly represented by the intellectualist tradition in anthropology, which was prominent in Britain at the turn of the century and reemerged under the banner of Neo-Tylorianism ...
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 Limited preview - 1994 |
Medicine, Rationality and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective Byron Good No preview available - 1994 |
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