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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... xv 1 Medical anthropology and the 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, ...
... xv 1 Medical anthropology and the 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, ...
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... Good contends, by participating in a distinctive set of what Marilyn Strathem might call knowledge practices, “specialized ways of 'seeing,' 'writing,' and 'speaking'” that “formulate reality in a specifically 'medical' way” (p.
... Good contends, by participating in a distinctive set of what Marilyn Strathem might call knowledge practices, “specialized ways of 'seeing,' 'writing,' and 'speaking'” that “formulate reality in a specifically 'medical' way” (p.
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Good draws upon Jerome Bruner to argue that illness narratives succeed by “subjunctivizing reality” (p. 153). Narratives are not closed accounts but endorse alternative perspectives and alternative readings, both retrospectively, ...
Good draws upon Jerome Bruner to argue that illness narratives succeed by “subjunctivizing reality” (p. 153). Narratives are not closed accounts but endorse alternative perspectives and alternative readings, both retrospectively, ...
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I returned with a sense of the profound inadequacy of describing the world of my Ibo and Yoruba classmates in a manner that gave privilege to my own views of reality. It was that experience that led me to the comparative study of ...
I returned with a sense of the profound inadequacy of describing the world of my Ibo and Yoruba classmates in a manner that gave privilege to my own views of reality. It was that experience that led me to the comparative study of ...
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In reality, Trautmann argues, precisely this everyday quality of kin relations made them resistant to analysis. ... the provisions of the kinship system are everywhere attributed to some immanent order, whether of Nature or of God or ...
In reality, Trautmann argues, precisely this everyday quality of kin relations made them resistant to analysis. ... the provisions of the kinship system are everywhere attributed to some immanent order, whether of Nature or of God or ...
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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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| 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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