Medicine, Rationality and Experience: An Anthropological PerspectiveBiomedicine is often thought to provide a universal scientific account of the human body and illness. In this view, non-Western and folk medical system are regarded as system of 'belief' and and subtly discounted. |
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Contents
Medical anthropology and the problem of belief | 1 |
Illness representations in medical anthropology a reading of the field | 25 |
How medicine constructs its objects | 65 |
Semiotics and the study of medical reality | 88 |
The body illness experience and the lifeworld a phenomenological account of chronic pain | 116 |
The narrative representation of illness | 135 |
Aesthetics rationality and medical anthropology | 166 |
Notes | 185 |
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Medicine, Rationality and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective Byron J. Good Limited preview - 1993 |
Medicine, Rationality and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective Byron Good No preview available - 1994 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Medicine, Rationality and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective Issue 1990 of Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, ISSN 0075-8922 |
| Authors | Byron J. Good, Good |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1994 |
| ISBN | 052142576X, 9780521425766 |
| Length | 242 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social Social Science / Anthropology / General |
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