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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... problem of belief 1 2 Illness representations in medical anthropology: a reading of the field 25 3 How medicine constructs its objects 65 4 Semiotics and the study of medical reality 88 5 The body, illness experience, and the lifeworld ...
... problem of belief 1 2 Illness representations in medical anthropology: a reading of the field 25 3 How medicine constructs its objects 65 4 Semiotics and the study of medical reality 88 5 The body, illness experience, and the lifeworld ...
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... problems in our discipline, many of which we cannot hope to represent in a single department. Ideally, their work challenges as well as complements our own. Through its selection of Lecturers, the Rochester Department of Anthropology is ...
... problems in our discipline, many of which we cannot hope to represent in a single department. Ideally, their work challenges as well as complements our own. Through its selection of Lecturers, the Rochester Department of Anthropology is ...
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... throughout the preparation of the Morgan Lectures and has read and commented on every page of this manuscript. It is to her that I dedicate this book. 1 Medical anthropology and the problem of belief Part Preface XVII.
... throughout the preparation of the Morgan Lectures and has read and commented on every page of this manuscript. It is to her that I dedicate this book. 1 Medical anthropology and the problem of belief Part Preface XVII.
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An Anthropological Perspective Byron J. Good. 1 Medical anthropology and the problem of belief Part of.
An Anthropological Perspective Byron J. Good. 1 Medical anthropology and the problem of belief Part of.
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... his finding, to his great astonishment, that the Seneca attribute descent and prescribe the inheritance of property and office so differently than we do - that is through females 1 Medical anthropology and the problem of belief.
... his finding, to his great astonishment, that the Seneca attribute descent and prescribe the inheritance of property and office so differently than we do - that is through females 1 Medical anthropology and the problem of belief.
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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