Medicine, rationality, and experience: an anthropological perspective / Byron J. Good
by Good, Byron
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- ISBN 13
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Reprint. Softcover. Fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xvii, 242 pages. Contents:Medical anthropology and the problem of belief -- Illness representations in medical anthropology: a reading of the field -- How medicine constructs its objects -- Semiotics and the study of medical reality -- The body, illness experience, and the lifeworld: a phenomenological account of chronic pain -- The narrative representation of illness -- Aesthetics, rationality, and medical anthropology. Subjects:Medical anthropology.Social medicine. Social Sciences Anthropology. Disciplines and Occupations. Behavioral Disciplines and Activities.Psychiatry and Psychology.
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- Title
- Medicine, rationality, and experience: an anthropological perspective / Byron J. Good
- Author
- Good, Byron
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 052142576X
- ISBN 13
- 9780521425766
- Publisher
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 2001
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