Medicine, rationality, and experience : an anthropological perspective
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Medicine, rationality, and experience : an anthropological perspective
(The Lewis Henry Morgan lectures, 1990)
Cambridge University Press, 1994
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 42 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
-
Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
: pbk490.2||Goo93083538
-
Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityグローバル専攻
:pbkCOE-SA||490.1||Goo||9808436098084360
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-233) and author and subject indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Biomedicine is often thought to provide a scientific account of the human body and of illness. In this view, non-Western and folk medical systems are regarded as systems of 'belief' and subtly discounted. This is an impoverished perspective for understanding illness and healing across cultures, one that neglects many facets of Western medical practice and obscures its kinship with healing in other traditions. Drawing on his research in several American and Middle Eastern medical settings, in this 1993 book Professor Good develops a critical, anthropological account of medical knowledge and practice. He shows how physicians and healers enter and inhabit distinctive worlds of meaning and experience. He explores how stories or illness narratives are joined with bodily experience in shaping and responding to human suffering and argues that moral and aesthetic considerations are present in routine medical practice as in other forms of healing.
Table of Contents
- 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.
by "Nielsen BookData"