The Meaning of illness : the anthropology, history, and sociology of illness
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The Meaning of illness : the anthropology, history, and sociology of illness
(Social orders, v. 5)
Harwood Academic Publishers, c1995
Available at 15 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
Note
Translation of: Le sens du mal
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book is based on collective research carried out during the 1980s. This edition appears ten years after the original publication in French. Since then we have experienced many changes. In the late decade, disciplines have changed, as have the societies being researched. The outbreak of AIDS in Africa and the industrial world is not the least of these major and influential changes. The reader today will be sensitive to these changes and this research maintains its value as an intellectual endeavour and a useful model.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part 1 Bodily Ailments, Lineage Language
- Chapter 1 Biological Order, Social Order, M. Auge
- Chapter 2 The Need for Meaning, N. Sindzingre
- Chapter 3 Sterility, Aridity, Drought, F. Heritier
- Chapter 4 History of Diseases, History and Disease, E. M'Bokolo
- Part 2 From the Right to Illness to the Duty to be Healthy: the Industrial Society
- Chapter 5 Modern Medicine and the Quest for Meaning. Illness as a Social Signifier, C. Herzlich
- Chapter 6 The Social Meanings of Health, J. Pierret
- Chapter 7 From Healing to Salvation, D. Leger
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