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Informationen zum Autor Byron J. Good is Professor of Medical Anthropology! Department of Global Health and Social Medicine! Harvard Medical School! and Professor in the Department of Anthropology! Harvard University. Michael M. J. Fischer is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology! and Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Sarah S. Willen is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University. She has been an NIMN Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and has taught in the Department of Anthropology! Harvard University. Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good is Professor of Social Medicine! Department of Global Health and Social Medicine! Harvard Medical School! and in the Department of Sociology! Harvard University. Klappentext A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities brings together articles from the key theoretical approaches in the field of medical anthropology as well as related science and technology studies. The editors' comprehensive introductions evaluate the historical lineages of these approaches and their value in addressing critical problems associated with contemporary forms of illness experience and health care. Presents a key selection of both classic and new agenda-setting articles in medical anthropology Provides analytic and historical contextual introductions by leading figures in medical anthropology, medical sociology, and science and technology studies Critically reviews the contribution of medical anthropology to a new global health movement that is reshaping international health agendas Zusammenfassung Presents a key collection of both classic and new agenda-setting articles in this central area of anthropology Provides analytic and historical contextual introductions by leading figures in medical anthropology! medical sociology! science studies! social theory and general anthropology . Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix About the Editors xiii Introduction 1 Part I Antecedents 7 Introduction 9 1 Massage in Melanesia 15 W. H. R. Rivers 2 The Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events 18 E. E. Evans-Pritchard 3 Muchona the Hornet, Interpreter of Religion 26 Victor Turner 4 The Ojibwa Self and Its Behavioral Environment 38 Irving A. Hallowell 5 The Charity Physician 47 Rudolf Virchow 6 The Role of Beliefs and Customs in Sanitation Programs 50 Benjamin Paul 7 Introduction to Asian Medical Systems 55 Charles Leslie 8 Medical Anthropology and the Problem of Belief 64 Byron J. Good Part II Illness and Narrative, Body and Experience 77 Introduction 79 9 Medicine's Symbolic Reality: On a Central Problem in the Philosophy of Medicine 85 Arthur M. Kleinman 10 Elements of Charismatic Persuasion and Healing 91 Thomas J. Csordas 11 The Thickness of Being: Intentional Worlds, Strategies of Identity, and Experience Among Schizophrenics 108 Ellen Corin 12 The Concept of Therapeutic 'Emplotment' 121 Cheryl Mattingly 13 Myths/Histories/Lives 137 Michael Jackson 14 The State Construction of Affect: Political Ethos and Mental Health Among Salvadoran Refugees 143 Janis Hunter Jenkins 15 Struggling Along: The Possibilities for Experience among the Homeless Mentally Ill 160 Robert Desjarlais Part III Governmentalities and Biological Citizenship 175 Introduction 177 16 Dreaming of Psychiatric Citizens...
