Medicine, Rationality and Experience : An Anthropological Perspective by Good, Byron J

Cambridge University Press, 1994-01-28. First Edition. paperback. Used: Good.

Cambridge University Press, January 1994. Trade Paperback . Good.

Cambridge University Press, 2003. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:9780521425766

Cambridge University Press, 1994-01-28. First Edition. paperback. Used:Good.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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.

Cambridge University Press CUP , pp. 262 . Papeback. New.

Paperback / softback. New. First published in 1993, this book is a comprehensive analysis of the role of cultural factors in the experience of illness, countering the scientific view of folk medicine as superstitious practice.

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ISBN: 9780521425766
Cambridge University Press, 
12 January 2011, Paperback , 262 pages
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Biomedicine 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… Read More