On knowing and not knowing in the anthropology of medicine

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On knowing and not knowing in the anthropology of medicine

edited by Roland Littlewood

Left Coast Press, c2007

  • : pbk
  • : hc

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Social scientific studies of medicine typically assume that systems of medical knowledge are uniform and consistent. But while anthropologists have long rejected the notion that cultures are discrete, bounded, and rule-drive entities, medical anthropology has been slower to develop alternative approaches to understanding cultures of health. This provocative volume considers the theoretical, methodological, and ethnographic implications of the fact that medical knowledge is frequently dynamic, incoherent, and contradictory, and that and our understanding of it is necessarily incomplete and partial. In diverse settings from indigenous cultures to Western medical industries, contributors consider such issues as how to define the boundaries of "medical" knowledge versus other kinds of knowledge; how to understand overlapping and shifting medical discourses; the medical profession's need for anthropologists to produce "explanatory models"; the limits of the Western scientific method and the potential for methodological pluralism; constraints on fieldwork including violence and structural factors limiting access; and the subjectivity and interests of the researcher. On Knowing and Not Knowing in the Anthropology of Medicine will stimulate innovative thinking and productive debate for practitioners, researchers, and students in the social science of health and medicine.

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* Introduction: The Importance of Knowing about Not-knowingMurray Last* Coconuts And Syphilis: An Essay In Over-InterpretationRoland Littlewood* On 'Medical System' And Questions In FieldworkGilbert Lewis* Explanatory Models And Oversystematisation In Medical AnthropologySimon Dein* The Ambivalence of Integrative MedicineGuido Giarelli* Not Knowing About DefecationSjaak van der Geest* Christianity, Tradition, AIDS, and Pornography: Knowing Sex in Western KenyaWenzel Geissler and Ruth Prince* Feeling and Borderlinking in Yaka Healing ArtsRene Devisch* On Knowing and Not Knowing in Latvian Psychiatric ConsultationsVieda Skultans* Farewell to Fieldwork? Constraints in Anthropological Research in Violent Situations and Their Effects on the Body of KnowledgeEls van Dongen* Neutralizing the Young: What the South African Truth and Reconciliation Says and Does Not Say About Youth in the Liberation StrugglePamela Reynolds* In Touch Without Touching: Islam and HealingDavid Parkin

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