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Uniform Title Sens du mal. English
Title The meaning of illness : anthropology, history, and sociology / edited by Marc Augé and Claudine Herzlich ; translated from the French by Katherine J. Durnin ... [and others]
Published Australia ; United States : Harwood Academic Publishers, [1995]
©1995

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Description vii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Social orders ; v. 5
Social orders ; v. 5
Contents Introduction / M. Auge and C. Herzlich -- Pt. I. Bodily Ailments, Lineage Language. 1. Biological order, social order; illness, a primary form of event /M. Auge. 2. The need for meaning, the explanation of ill fortune: the Senufo / N. Sindzingre. 3. Sterility, aridity, drought: some invariants of symbolic thought /F. Heritier. 4. History of diseases, history and disease: Africa / E. M'Bokolo -- Pt. II. From the Right to Illness to the Duty to be Healthy: The Industrial Society. 5. Modern medicine and the quest for meaning: illness as a social signifier / C. Herzlich. 6. The social meanings of health: Paris, the Essonne and the Herault / J. Pierret. 7. From healing to salvation: the neo-rural apocalyptic communities in France / D. Leger
Notes Translation of: Le sens du mal
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Social medicine.
Diseases -- Social aspects.
Medical anthropology.
Author Herzlich, Claudine.
Augé, Marc.
Durnin, Katherine J
LC no. 91035020
ISBN 3718652072