Good, Byron J. Good

Medicine, Rationality and Experience

An Anthropological Perspective

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 385g
• ISBN-13: 9780521425766
• ISBN-10: 052142576X
• Artikelnr.: 20981793

Inhaltsangabe

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.