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Medicine, Rationality and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective by Byron J. Good (Hardback, 1993)

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Biomedicine is often thought to provide a scientific account of the human body and of illness. In this view, n-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, Professor Good develops a critical, anthropological account of medical kwledge 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 practice as in other forms of healing.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
0521415586
ISBN-13
9780521415583
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96742531

Product Key Features

Author
Byron J. Good
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Sociology & Anthropology: Professional

Dimensions

Weight
520g
Height
228mm
Width
152mm

Additional Product Features

Place of Publication
Cambridge
Spine
16mm
Series Title
Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
Date of Publication
26/11/1993
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Genre
Sociology & Anthropology: Professional

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