| Description |
xv, 428 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Comparative studies of health systems and medical care |
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Comparative studies of health systems and medical care.
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| Contents |
(cont.) Double standards of treatment evaluation / Gilbert Lewis -- Risk : anthropological and epidemiological narratives of prevention / Ronald Frankenberg -- Identity, disability, and schizophrenia : the problem of chronicity / Sue E. Estroff -- Social aspects of chagas disease / Roberto Briceñ-León -- The diseased heart of Africa : medicine, colonialism and the black body / Jean Comaroff -- The politics of mid-life and menopause : ideologies for the second sex on North America and Japan / Margaret Lock -- The biopolitics of postmodern bodies : determinations of self in immune system discourse / Donna Haraway |
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Traditional birth attendants in rural North India : the social organization of childbearing / Roger Jeffery and Patricia M. Jeffery -- Analysis of a dialogue on risks in childbirth : clinicians, epidemiologists, and Inuit women / Patricia A. Kaufert and John O'Neil -- Accounting for amniocentesis / Rayna Rapp -- "Learning medicine" : the constructing of medical knowledge at Harvard Medical School / Byron J. Good and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good -- A description of how ideology shapes knowledge of a mental disorder (posttraumatic stress disorder) / Allan Young -- The shape of action : practice in public psychiatry / Lorna Amarasingham Rhodes -- Lay medical knowledge in an African context / Tola Olu Pearce -- Biomedical psychiatry as an object for a critical medical anthropology / Horacioa Fabrega, Jr |
| Summary |
Ranging in time and locale, these essays, which combine theoretical argument with empirical observation, are based on research in historical and cultural settings. The contributors accept the notion that all knowledge is socially and culturally constructed and examine the contexts in which that knowledge is produced and practiced in medicine, psychiatry, epidemiology, and anthropology. -- from publisher description |
| Analysis |
Medicine Sociology |
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Medicine Sociology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Medical anthropology.
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Anthropology, Cultural.
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Medicine.
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Anthropology.
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| Author |
Lindenbaum, Shirley.
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Lock, Margaret M.
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| LC no. |
92028208 |
| ISBN |
0520077849 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0520077857 (paper : alk. paper) |
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