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List of contents
PREFACE
1
Introduction: Medical Anthropology as Intellectual Career
PART ONE: THE CULTURE OF BIOMEDICINE
2
What Is Specific to Biomedicine?
3
Anthropology of Bioethics
4
A Critique of Objectivity in International Health
PART TWO: SUFFERING AS SOCIAL EXPERIENCE
5
Suffering and Its Professional Transformation:
Toward an Ethnography of Interpersonal Experience
(with Joan Kleinman)
6
Pain and Resistance: The Delegitimation and
Relegitimation of Local Worlds
7
The Social Course of Epilepsy: Chronic Illness
as Social Experience in Interior China
(with Wen-zhi Wang, Shi-chuo Li, Xue-ming Cheng,
Xiu-ying Dai, ICun-tun Li, and Joan Kleinman)
8
Violence, Culture, and the Politics of Trauma
(with Robert Desjarlais)
PART THREE: THE STATE OF MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
9
The New Wave of Ethnographies in Medical Anthropology
APPENDIX: WORKS BY ARTHUR KLEINMAN
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX
About the author
Arthur Kleinman is Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University, and Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology and Chair of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is the author of Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture (California, 1980), Social Origins of Distress and Disease (1986), Rethinking Psychiatry (1988), and The Illness Narrative (1988); coauthor of World Mental Health (1995); and coeditor of Pain as Human Experience (California, 1992) and Culture and Depression (California, 1985).
Summary
An exploration of the border between medical and social problems, the boundary between health and social change, and a study of the body as the mediator between individual and collective experience. The author argues for an ethnographic approach to moral practice in medicine.
