A Failure of Treatment is a splendid monograph and a good prescription for the medical anthropologists who are least likely to read it

• The ethnography of an illness ; Arrival ; The people in a hamlet: Watalu ; Paths and gardens ; A question of marriage and a fall ; The hunting in July and another fall ; At the health centre ; The perception of his illness ; The opening of Malyi ; Contrasts of pace: acute and chronic ; Imagery without influence ; Failure yet belief ; Losing hope ; The death of Dauwaras ; The period of mourning ; Aftermath

A Failure of Treatment is a splendid monograph and a good prescription for the medical anthropologists who are least likely to read it

• The ethnography of an illness ; Arrival ; The people in a hamlet: Watalu ; Paths and gardens ; A question of marriage and a fall ; The hunting in July and another fall ; At the health centre ; The perception of his illness ; The opening of Malyi ; Contrasts of pace: acute and chronic ; Imagery without influence ; Failure yet belief ; Losing hope ; The death of Dauwaras ; The period of mourning ; Aftermath

A Failure of Treatment is a splendid monograph and a good prescription for the medical anthropologists who are least likely to read it

• The ethnography of an illness ; Arrival ; The people in a hamlet: Watalu ; Paths and gardens ; A question of marriage and a fall ; The hunting in July and another fall ; At the health centre ; The perception of his illness ; The opening of Malyi ; Contrasts of pace: acute and chronic ; Imagery without influence ; Failure yet belief ; Losing hope ; The death of Dauwaras ; The period of mourning ; Aftermath