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Medicine Rationality and Experience
Author | : Byron J. Good |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 052142576X |
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Biomedicine is often thought to provide a scientific account of the human body and of illness. In this view, non-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, in this 1993 book Professor Good develops a critical, anthropological account of medical knowledge 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.
Medicine Rationality and Experience
Author | : Byron J. Good |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1993-11-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781316582480 |
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Biomedicine is often thought to provide a scientific account of the human body and of illness. In this view, non-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, in this 1993 book Professor Good develops a critical, anthropological account of medical knowledge 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.
Medicine Rationality and Experience
Author | : Byron J. Good |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:257084468 |
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Medicine Rationality and Experience
Author | : Byron Good |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0521415586 |
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A 1993 analysis of the role of cultural factors in the experience of illness, countering the scientific view of folk medicine as superstitious practice.
Clifford Geertz by His Colleagues
Author | : Richard A. Shweder,Byron Good |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2005-03-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780226756103 |
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Clifford Geertz is the most influential American anthropologist of the past four decades. His writings have defined and given character to the intellectual agenda of a meaning-centered, nonreductive interpretive social science and have provoked much excitement and debate about the nature of human understanding. As part of the American Anthropological Association's centennial celebration, the executive board sponsored a presidential session honoring Geertz. Clifford Geertz by His Colleagues compiles the twelve speeches given then by a distinguished panel of social scientists along with a concluding piece by Geertz in which he responds to each speaker and reflects on his own career. These edited speeches cover a broad range of topics, including Geertz's views on morality, cultural critique, interpretivism, time and change, Islam, and violence. A fitting tribute to one of the great thinkers of our age, this collection will be enjoyed by anthropologists as well as students of psychology, history, and philosophy.
Medicine Rationality and Experience
Author | : Byron Good |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Medical anthropology |
ISBN | : OCLC:59891171 |
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Medicine and Morality in Haiti
Author | : Paul Brodwin |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1996-09-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0521575435 |
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Morality and medicine are inextricably intertwined in rural Haiti, and both are shaped by the different local religious traditions, Christian and Vodoun, as well as by biomedical and folk medical practices. When people fall ill, they seek treatment not only from Western doctors but also from herbalists, religious healers and midwives. Dr Brodwin examines the situational logic, the pragmatic decisions, that guide people in making choices when they are faced with illness. He also explains the moral issues that arise in a society where suffering is associated with guilt, but where different, sometimes conflicting, ethical systems coexist. Moreover, he shows how in the crisis of illness people rework religious identities and are forced to address fundamental social and political problems.
Postcolonial Disorders
Author | : Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good,Sandra Teresa Hyde,Sarah Pinto,Byron Good |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 2008-02-04 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780520252240 |
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The contributors explore modes of social and psychological experience, the constitution of the subject, and forms of subjection that shape the lives of Basque youth, Indonesian artists, members of nongovernmental HIV/AIDS programmes in China and Zaire, and psychiatrists and their patients in Morocco and Ireland.