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Page 87
... culture we must avoid the pitfalls of the anthropological evolutionists who look for man with a capital M behind all the specifics of individual customs just as much as we must avoid those of the cultural relativists who dissolve man ...
... culture we must avoid the pitfalls of the anthropological evolutionists who look for man with a capital M behind all the specifics of individual customs just as much as we must avoid those of the cultural relativists who dissolve man ...
Page 89
... culture , they create themselves . In his explanation of culture as a programme , Geertz points out that both enlightened and classical anthropology miss the point . Each endeavours to construct an image of man as a model , an archetype ...
... culture , they create themselves . In his explanation of culture as a programme , Geertz points out that both enlightened and classical anthropology miss the point . Each endeavours to construct an image of man as a model , an archetype ...
Page 91
... Culture ' and ' health programmes ' can be distinguished only by those social scientists who identify ' medical culture ' with sick care ; they are concerned mostly with purging , bone - setting , exorcisms , tooth - pulling ...
... Culture ' and ' health programmes ' can be distinguished only by those social scientists who identify ' medical culture ' with sick care ; they are concerned mostly with purging , bone - setting , exorcisms , tooth - pulling ...
Contents
PREFACE | 9 |
THE EPIDEMIC OF MODERN MEDICINE | 15 |
THE MEDICALIZATION OF LIFE | 31 |
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