| Description |
xiv, 400 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Preface: The Cultural Context of Medicine and the Biohuman Paradigm -- 1. Creativity in Illness: Methodological Linkages to the Logic and Language of Science in Folk Pursuit of Health in Central Italy / Lola Romanucci-Ross -- 2. Aztec and European Medicine in the New World, 1521-1600 / Clara Sue Kidwell -- 3. Phantoms and Physicians: Social Change through Medical Pluralism / Libbet Crandon-Malamud -- 4. Poisoned Apples and Honeysuckles: The Medicinal Plants of Native America / Daniel E. Moerman -- 5. Herbal and Symbolic Forms of Treatment in the Medicine of the Lowland Mixe (Oaxaca, Mexico) / Michael Heinrich -- 6. The Evolution of Human Nutrition / Barry Bogin -- 7. Zoonoses and the Origins of Old and New World Viral Diseases: New Perspectives / Linda M. Van Blerkom -- 8. Malaria, Medicine, and Meals: A Biobehavioral Perspective / Nina L. Etkin and Paul J. Ross -- 9. The Impassioned Knowledge of the Shaman / Lola Romanucci-Ross -- 10. Anarchy, Abjection, and Absurdity: A Case of Metaphoric Medicine among the Tabwa of Zaire / Allen F. Roberts -- 11. Physiology and Symbols: The Anthropological Implications of the Placebo Effect / Daniel E. Moerman -- 12. Narratives of Chronic Pain / Robert Kugelmann -- 13. The Effect of Ethnicity on Prescriptions for Patient Controlled Analgesia for Post-Operative Pain / Bernardo Ng, Joel E. Dimsdale and Jens D. Rollnik [et al.] -- 14. Stress and Its Management: The Cultural Construction of an Illness and Its Treatment / Robert Kugelmann -- 15. Science of the Mind in Contexts of a Culture / Laurence R. Tancredi -- 16. The "New Psychiatry": From Ideology to Cultural Error / Lola Romanucci-Ross -- 17. The Aging: Legal and Ethical Personhood in Culture Change / Laurence R. Tancredi and Lola Romanucci-Ross -- 18. The Extraneous Factor in Western Medicine / Lola Romanucci-Ross and Daniel E. Moerman -- 19. "Medical Anthropology": Convergence of Mind and Experience in the Anthropological Imagination / Lola Romanucci-Ross, Daniel E. Moerman and Laurence R. Tancredi |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 1991 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Materia medica, Vegetable.
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Medical anthropology.
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Mental illness -- Social aspects.
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Psychiatry, Transcultural.
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Traditional medicine.
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| Author |
Moerman, Daniel E.
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Romanucci-Ross, Lola.
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Tancredi, Laurence R.
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| LC no. |
96053993 |
| ISBN |
0897894901 |
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0897895169 (paperback) |
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