Medicine, Rationality and Experience
An Anthropological Perspective
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- Author: Byron J. Good, Harvard University, Massachusetts
- Date Published: January 1994
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- isbn: 9780521425766
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Medicine supposedly offers a scientific account of the human body and of illness, and it follows that scientific medicine treats all forms of folk medicine as little more than superstitious practices. Professor Good argues that this impoverished perspective neglects many facets of Western medical practice and obscures its kinship with healing in other traditions. Drawing on his own anthropological research in America and the Middle East, his analysis of illness and medicine explores the role of cultural factors in the experience of illness and the practice of medicine.
Read more- A unique general theoretical text in medical anthropology
- Will appeal to a market beyond anthropologists, especially doctors and medical students in training
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"The book reflects more than two decades of Good's work as a researcher, writer, and teacher....offers an excellent overview of some of the controversies in medical anthropology today and provides ample ammunition for those who would demonstrate the field's relevance to the practice of medicine. Medicine, Rationality, and Experience is essential reading for anyone interested in the common ground between the medical and social sciences. The determined reader will be rewarded with a wealth of insight relevant to clinical practice, research, and teaching." New England Journal of Medicine
See more reviews"The book critically explores the history of anthropology's relation to biomedicine and various phases in the emergence of medical anthropology as a discipline....This is an accessible work based on public lectures and makes no assumptions about prior knowledge, but includes the usual scholarly paraphernalia....I recommend it for those curious about the intellectual landscape surrounding the awesome ramparts of biomedicine." Gene Feder, The Lancet
"Medical anthropologists and anthropologists in other subdisciplines will find Medicine, Rationality, and Experience satisfying because of Good's historical treatment of theoretical developments in the field and his imaginative reconfiguring of a phenomenology of medical practices. This book will also be of interest to physicians and other health care providers, social scientists, philosophers, and medical humanists concerned and curious about the social construction of illness, suffering, and medical knowledge....His arguments and his illustrations are compelling and thought-provoking. As in the past, Professor Good reminds us once again of the transformative power of the individual and the social imaginations in the context of illness and disease." Patricia A. Marshall, Academic Medicine
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- Date Published: January 1994
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521425766
- length: 262 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.36kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Medical anthropology and the problem of belief
2. Illness representations in medical anthropology: a reading of the field
3. How medicine constructs its objects
4. Semiotics and the study of medical reality
5. The body, illness experience, and the lifeworld: a phenomenological account of chronic pain
6. The narrative representation of illness
7. Aesthetics, rationality and medical anthropology.
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