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edited by Roland LittlewoodPublication Details
BookLeft Coast Press2007Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) GN296 .O5 2007 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Social scientific studies of medicine typically assume that systems of medical knowledge are uniform and consistent. But while anthropologists have long rejected the notion that cultures are discrete, bounded, and rule-drive entities, medical anthropology has been slower to develop alternative approaches to understanding cultures of health. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Contents
- The importance of knowing about not knowing / Murray Last
- Coconuts and syphilis : an essay in overinterpretation / Roland Littlewood
- On "medical system" and questions in fieldwork / Gilbert Lewis
- Explanatory models and oversystematization in medical anthropology / Simon Dein - - The ambivalence of integrative medicine / Guido Giarelli
- Not knowing about defecation / Sjaak van der Geest
- Christianity, tradition, AIDS, and pornography : knowing sex in western Kenya / P. Wenzel Geissler and Ruth J. Prince
- Feeling and borderlinking in Yaka healing arts / Ren Devisch
- On knowing and not knowing in Latvian psychiatric consultations / Vieda Skultans
- Farewell to fieldwork? : constraints in anthropological research in violent situations / Els van Dongen
- Neutralizing the young : the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and youth / Pamela Reynolds
- In touch without touching : Islam and healing / David Parkin
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- 9781598742756
- 1598742752
- 9781598742749
- 1598742744
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