Writing at the margin : discourse between anthropology and medicine
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Writing at the margin : discourse between anthropology and medicine
University of California Press, c1995
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Essays reprinted from various publications
Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-308) and index
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ISBN 9780520200999
Description
This text explores the border between medical and social problems, the boundary between health and social change. The book studies the body as the mediator between individual and collective experience, finding that many health problems, for example the trauma of violence or depression in the course of chronic pain, are less individual medical problems than interpersonal experiences of social suffering. It argues for an ethnographic approach to moral practice in medicine, one that embraces the infrapolitical context of illness, responses to it, the social institutions relating to it and the way it is configured in medical ethics. Previously published in various journals, these essays have been revised, updated and brought together with an introduction, an essay on violence and the politics of post-traumatic stress disorder, and a chapter that examines the contemporary ethnographic literature of medical anthropology.
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: pbk ISBN 9780520209657
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One of the most influential and creative scholars in medical anthropology takes stock of his recent intellectual odysseys in this collection of essays. Arthur Kleinman, an anthropologist and psychiatrist who has studied in Taiwan, China, and North America since 1968, draws upon his bicultural, multidisciplinary background to propose alternative strategies for thinking about how, in the postmodern world, the social and medical relate. Writing at the Margin explores the border between medical and social problems, the boundary between health and social change. Kleinman studies the body as the mediator between individual and collective experience, finding that many health problems--for example the trauma of violence or depression in the course of chronic pain--are less individual medical problems than interpersonal experiences of social suffering. He argues for an ethnographic approach to moral practice in medicine, one that embraces the infrapolitical context of illness, the responses to it, the social institutions relating to it, and the way it is configured in medical ethics.
Previously published in various journals, these essays have been revised, updated, and brought together with an introduction, an essay on violence and the politics of post-traumatic stress disorder, and a new chapter that examines the contemporary ethnographic literature of medical anthropology.
Table 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
by "Nielsen BookData"
