Medicine, Rationality and Experience - An Anthropological Perspective

Klappentext Biomedicine 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. Zusammenfassung First published in 1993! this book is a comprehensive analysis of the role of cultural factors in the experience of illness! countering the scientific view of folk medicine as superstitious practice. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Medical anthropology and the problem of belief; 2. Illness representations in medical anthropology: a reading of the field; 3. How medicine constructs its objects; 4. Semiotics and the study of medical reality; 5. The body, illness experience, and the lifeworld: a phenomenological account of chronic pain; 6. The narrative representation of illness; 7. Aesthetics, rationality and medical anthropology.

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• Authors: Good, Byron Good, Byron J Good, Byron J. Good, Byron J. (Harvard University Good
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.12.1993
• EAN: 9780521425766
• ISBN: 978-0-521-42576-6
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series; Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures (P; The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures; Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures (P
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics