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020 _a9780511811029 (ebook)
020 _z9780521415583 (hardback)
020 _z9780521425766 (paperback)
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_beng
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_cUkCbUP
050 0 0 _aGN296
_b.G66 1994
082 0 0 _a306.4/61
_220
100 1 _aGood, Byron,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aMedicine, rationality, and experience :
_ban anthropological perspective /
_cByron J. Good.
246 3 _aMedicine, Rationality & Experience
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c1994.
300 _a1 online resource (xvii, 242 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aLewis Henry Morgan lectures
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
520 _aBiomedicine 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.
650 0 _aMedical anthropology.
650 0 _aSocial medicine.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780521415583
830 0 _aLewis Henry Morgan lectures.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511811029
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