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Author Kleinman, Arthur.

Title Patients and healers in the context of culture : an exploration of the borderland between anthropology, medicine, and psychiatry / Arthur Kleinman
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [1980]
Berkeley, Carlifornia : University of California Press, [1980]
©1980
©1980

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Description xvi, 427 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series Comparative studies of health systems and medical care ; 3
Comparative studies of health systems and medical care ; 3
Contents Includes index
Summary Kleinman, a psychiatrist, trained in anthropology, reports on his studies of health care in Taiwan. He describes his observations of clinical interviews between various medical practitioner, folk-healers, temple medicine men, and Chinese-style and Western-style physicians and their patients. He stress the importance of adopting the proper cultural perspective, making ones interpretations within that framework
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-414) and index
Subject Ethnology -- Taiwan.
Cross-cultural studies.
Traditional medicine -- Taiwan.
Health services -- Taiwan
Health services, Indigenous
Intercultural communication.
Medical anthropology -- Taiwan.
Medical anthropology.
Medicine -- Taiwan.
Psychiatry -- Taiwan.
Psychiatry, Transcultural.
Sick -- Psychology.
Social medicine.
Social medicine -- Taiwan.
Anthropology, Cultural.
Cross-Cultural Comparison.
Health Services.
Health Services, Indigenous.
Medical Snthropology
Medicine.
Psychiatry.
Sick Role.
Sociology, Medical.
SUBJECT Taiwan. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013624
LC no. 78057311
ISBN 9780520045118 (paperback)
Other Titles Exploration of the borderland between anthropology, medicine, and psychiatry