Failure of Treatment

Zusatztext A Failure of Treatment is a splendid monograph and a good prescription for the medical anthropologists who are least likely to read it Klappentext This book is a study of a serious illness in a New Guinea village. It records the failure of local treatments and Western medicine, and of a communal ritual to bring a spirit to heal a man; it also shows how cultural beliefs and assumptions may influence events. The author, an anthropologist and medical doctor, focuses on how those closely involved maintained their hope and beliefs, and how they faced the realization of failure. Zusammenfassung Offers a study of a serious illness in a New Guinea village. This book records the failure of local treatments and Western medicine, and of a communal ritual to bring a spirit to heal a man; it also shows how cultural beliefs and assumptions may influence events. It focuses on how those closely involved maintained their hope and beliefs.

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• Authors: Lewis, Gilbert Lewis, Gilbert (Lecturer in Social Anthropology Lewis, Lewis Gilbert
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2000
• EAN: 9780198234098
• ISBN: 978-0-19-823409-8
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology; Oxford Studies in Social and C; Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology; Oxford Studies in Social and C
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Rural communities, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Social and cultural anthropology, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Papua New Guinea