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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... Department - undergraduates, graduate students and faculty alike - to engage in close interaction with scholars working on a wide range of problems in our discipline, many of which we cannot hope to represent in a single department.
... Department - undergraduates, graduate students and faculty alike - to engage in close interaction with scholars working on a wide range of problems in our discipline, many of which we cannot hope to represent in a single department.
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Furthermore, this surely represents a small part of what this book has been about and a very partial way of conceiving a program for medical anthropology. Nonetheless, my rather offhand comment suggested an interpretation of where I had ...
Furthermore, this surely represents a small part of what this book has been about and a very partial way of conceiving a program for medical anthropology. Nonetheless, my rather offhand comment suggested an interpretation of where I had ...
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This book represents an effort to work through a set of ideas with which I have struggled for more than twenty years. ... If we accept such claims, what are the consequences for how we represent illness and healing in other cultural ...
This book represents an effort to work through a set of ideas with which I have struggled for more than twenty years. ... If we accept such claims, what are the consequences for how we represent illness and healing in other cultural ...
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This essay represents a current debate within medical anthropology. It should be clear already, however, that it points toward much more fundamental issues. At stake is not only the question of the place of biology in the program of ...
This essay represents a current debate within medical anthropology. It should be clear already, however, that it points toward much more fundamental issues. At stake is not only the question of the place of biology in the program of ...
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... a correct representation of some aspect of the world, and an understanding of the knowing subject as an individual who holds an accurate representation of the natural world, derived from sense experience and represented in thought.
... a correct representation of some aspect of the world, and an understanding of the knowing subject as an individual who holds an accurate representation of the natural world, derived from sense experience and represented in thought.
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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 |
Medicine, Rationality and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective Byron Good No preview available - 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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