| Description |
xiii, 314 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: Medical Anthropology as Intellectual Career -- 2. What Is Specific to Biomedicine? -- 3. Anthropology of Bioethics -- 4. A Critique of Objectivity in International Health -- 5. Suffering and Its Professional Transformation: Toward an Ethnography of Interpersonal Experience / Arthur Kleinman and Joan Kleinman -- 6. Pain and Resistance: The Delegitimation and Relegitimation of Local Worlds -- 7. The Social Course of Epilepsy: Chronic Illness as Social Experience in Interior China / Arthur Kleinman, Wen-zhi Wang, Shi-chuo Li, Xue-ming Cheng, Xiu-ying Dai, Kun-tun Li and Joan Kleinman -- 8. Violence, Culture, and the Politics of Trauma / Arthur Kleinman and Robert Desjarlais -- 9. The New Wave of Ethnographies in Medical Anthropology -- Appendix: Works by Arthur Kleinman |
| Analysis |
Medicine Sociology |
| Notes |
Essays reprinted from various publications |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-308) and index |
| Subject |
Medical anthropology -- Methodology.
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Medical anthropology -- Philosophy.
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| LC no. |
95035194 |
| ISBN |
0520200993 (cl. : alk. paper) |
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0520209656 (paperback) |
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