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Illness Narratives
Suffering, Healing, And The Human Condition
Häftad, 2020
185 kr
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Western medicine treats sick patients like broken machines -- figure out what is physically wrong, fix it, and send the patient on their way. But humans are not machines. When we are ill, we experience our illness: we become scared, distressed, tired, weary. Our illnesses are not just biological …
Rethinking Psychiatry
Häftad, 1991
218 kr
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Arthur Kleinman, M.D., examines how the prevalence and nature of disorders vary in different cultures, how clinicians make their diagnoses, and how they heal, and the educational and practical implications of a true understanding of the interplay between biology and culture.
Soul of Care
The Moral Education of a Doctor
Häftad, 2020
141 kr
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The moving memoir of a doctor who became a family caregiver and learned why care is so central to all our lives 'Beautiful and deeply moving. A truly extraordinary work that will change how we think about our lives and the society we live in' Michael Puett, author of The Path When Dr Arthur …
Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture
An Exploration of the Borderland between Anthropology, Medicine, and Psychiatry
Häftad, 1981
298 kr
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From the Preface, by Arthur Kleinman:Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture presents a theoretical framework for studying the relationship between medicine, psychiatry, and culture. That framework is principally illustrated by materials gathered in field research in Taiwan and, to a lesser …
Reimagining Global Health
An Introduction
Av Paul Farmer, Arthur Kleinman m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
403 kr
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Bringing together the experience, perspective and expertise of Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Arthur Kleinman, "Reimagining Global Health" provides an original, compelling introduction to the field of global health. Drawn from a Harvard course developed by their student Matthew Basilico, this work …
Ground Between
Anthropologists Engage Philosophy
Av Veena Das, Michael Jackson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
2287 kr
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The guiding inspiration of this book is the attraction and distance that mark the relation between anthropology and philosophy. This theme is explored through encounters between individual anthropologists and particular regions of philosophy. Several of the most basic concepts of the …
Violence and Subjectivity
Av Veena Das, Arthur Kleinman m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
298 kr
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The essays in "Violence and Subjectivity", written by a distinguished international roster of contributors, consider the ways in which violence shapes subjectivity and acts upon people's capacity to engage everyday life. Like its predecessor volume, "Social Suffering", which explored the different …
Soul of Care
The Moral Education of a Doctor
E-bok, 2020
108 kr
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The moving memoir of a doctor who became a family caregiver and learned why care is so central to all our lives 'Beautiful and deeply moving. A truly extraordinary work that will change how we think about our lives and the society we live in' Michael Puett, author of The Path When Dr Arthur …
Soul of Care
The Moral Education of a Doctor
Ljudbok, 2020
176 kr
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Brought to you by Penguin. When Dr Arthur Kleinman, an eminent Harvard psychiatrist and social anthropologist, began caring for his wife, Joan, after she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer''s disease, he found just how far the act of caregiving extended beyond the boundaries of medicine. In …
What Really Matters
Living a Moral Life amidst Uncertainty and Danger
Häftad, 2008
422 kr
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In this moving and thought-provoking volume, Arthur Kleinman tells the unsettling stories of a handful of men and women, some of whom have lived through some of the most fundamental transitions of the turbulent twentieth century.Here we meet an American veteran of World War II, tortured by the …
Culture of Mental Illness and Psychiatric Practice in Africa
Av Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong, Allan G. Hill m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1014 kr
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In many African countries, mental health issues, including the burden of serious mental illness and trauma, have not been adequately addressed. These essays shed light on the treatment of common and chronic mental disorders, including mental illness and treatment in the current climate of economic …
Culture of Mental Illness and Psychiatric Practice in Africa
Av Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong, Allan G. Hill m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
385 kr
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In many African countries, mental health issues, including the burden of serious mental illness and trauma, have not been adequately addressed. These essays shed light on the treatment of common and chronic mental disorders, including mental illness and treatment in the current climate of economic …
Underbelly
Childhood Diarrhea and the Hidden Local Realities of Global Health
Av Rachel Hall-Clifford, Arthur Kleinman
Häftad, 2024
563 kr
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An unsettling exploration of the hidden power dynamics of global health, seen through the lens of childhood diarrhea and its treatment within the Guatemalan context. Deaths from childhood diarrhea seem preposterous in high-income countries. Yet, for children under five years old in the rest of the …
World Mental Health Casebook
Social and Mental Health Programs in Low-Income Countries
Av Alex Cohen, Arthur Kleinman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
1690 kr
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In the past dozen years, the field of international mental health has been transformed from a sub-discipline that attracted only a handful of anthropologists, psychiatrists, and psychologists, into a field that has now become a major concern in international public health. The World Mental Health …
World Mental Health Casebook
Social and Mental Health Programs in Low-Income Countries
Av Benedetto Saraceno, Arthur Kleinman m. fl.
E-bok, 2007
2174 kr
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In the past dozen years, the field of international mental health has been transformed from a sub-discipline that attracted only a handful of anthropologists, psychiatrists, and psychologists, into a field that has now become a major concern in international public health. The World Mental Health …
Japan's Wartime Medical Atrocities
Comparative Inquiries in Science, History, and Ethics
Av Jing Bao Nie, Nanyan Guo m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
2825 kr
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Prior to and during the Second World War, the Japanese Army established programs of biological warfare throughout China and elsewhere. In these “factories of death,” including the now-infamous Unit 731, Japanese doctors and scientists conducted large numbers of vivisections and experiments on human …
Governance of Life in Chinese Moral Experience
The Quest for an Adequate Life
Av Everett Zhang, Arthur Kleinman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
2743 kr
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China has experienced a tremendous turn-around over the past three decades from the ethos of sacrificing life to the emergent appeal for valuing life. This book takes an interdisciplinary look at China during these decades of transformation through the defining theme of governance of life. With an …
Governance of Life in Chinese Moral Experience
The Quest for an Adequate Life
Av Everett Zhang, Arthur Kleinman m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
924 kr
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China has experienced a tremendous turn-around over the past three decades from the ethos of sacrificing life to the emergent appeal for valuing life. This book takes an interdisciplinary look at China during these decades of transformation through the defining theme of governance of life. With an …
Japan's Wartime Medical Atrocities
Comparative Inquiries in Science, History, and Ethics
Av Jing Bao Nie, Nanyan Guo m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
936 kr
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Prior to and during the Second World War, the Japanese Army established programs of biological warfare throughout China and elsewhere. In these “factories of death,” including the now-infamous Unit 731, Japanese doctors and scientists conducted large numbers of vivisections and experiments on human …
Culture and Depression
Studies in the Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Psychiatry of Affect and Disorder
Av Arthur Kleinman, Byron J. Good
Häftad, 1986
377 kr
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Some of the most innovative and provocative work on the emotions and illness is occurring in cross-cultural research on depression. Culture and Depression presents the work of anthropologists, psychiatrists, and psychologists who examine the controversies, agreements, and conceptual and …
Pain as Human Experience
An Anthropological Perspective
Av Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Paul Brodwin m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
289 kr
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Chronic pain challenges the central tenet of biomedicine: that objective knowledge of the human body and mind is possible apart from subjective experience and social context. Sufferers, finding that chronic pain alters every aspect of life, often become frustrated and distrust a profession …
Writing at the Margin
Discourse Between Anthropology and Medicine
Häftad, 1997
428 kr
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One of the most influential and creative scholars in medical anthropology takes stock of his recent intellectual odysseys in this collection of essays. Arthur Kleinman, an anthropologist and psychiatrist who has studied in Taiwan, China, and North America since 1968, draws upon his bicultural, …
Social Suffering
Av Arthur Kleinman, Veena Das m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
306 kr
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"Social suffering" takes in the human consequences of war, famine, depression, disease, torture--the whole assemblage of human problems that result from what political, economic, and institutional power does to people--and also human responses to social problems as they are influenced by those …
Remaking a World
Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery
Av Veena Das, Arthur Kleinman m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
428 kr
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Remaking a World completes a triptych of volumes on social suffering, violence, and recovery. Social Suffering, the first volume, deals with sources and major forms of social adversity, with an emphasis on political violence. The second, Violence and Subjectivity, contains graphic accounts of how …
Subjectivity
Ethnographic Investigations
Av João Biehl, Byron J. Good m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
306 kr
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This innovative volume is an extended intellectual conversation about the ways personal lives are being undone and remade today. Examining the ethnography of the modern subject, this preeminent group of scholars probes the continuity and diversity of modes of personhood across a range of Western …
Deep China
The Moral Life of the Person
Av Arthur Kleinman, Yunxiang Yan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
842 kr
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"Deep China" investigates the emotional and moral lives of the Chinese people as they adjust to the challenges of modernity. Sharing a medical anthropology and cultural psychiatry perspective, Arthur Kleinman, Yunxiang Yan, Jing Jun, Sing Lee, Everett Zhang, Pan Tianshu, Wu Fei, and Guo Jinhua …
Deep China
The Moral Life of the Person
Av Arthur Kleinman, Yunxiang Yan m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
371 kr
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"Deep China" investigates the emotional and moral lives of the Chinese people as they adjust to the challenges of modernity. Sharing a medical anthropology and cultural psychiatry perspective, Arthur Kleinman, Yunxiang Yan, Jing Jun, Sing Lee, Everett Zhang, Pan Tianshu, Wu Fei, and Guo Jinhua …
Reimagining Global Health
An Introduction
Av Paul Farmer, Arthur Kleinman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
844 kr
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Bringing together the experience, perspective and expertise of Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Arthur Kleinman, "Reimagining Global Health" provides an original, compelling introduction to the field of global health. Drawn from a Harvard course developed by their student Matthew Basilico, this work …
Passion for Society
How We Think about Human Suffering
Av Iain Wilkinson, Arthur Kleinman
Inbunden, 2016
820 kr
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What does human suffering mean for society? And how has this meaning changed from the past to the present? In what ways does "the problem of suffering" serve to inspire us to care for others? How does our response to suffering reveal our moral and social conditions? In this trenchant work, Arthur …
Passion for Society
How We Think about Human Suffering
Av Iain Wilkinson, Arthur Kleinman
Häftad, 2016
263 kr
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What does human suffering mean for society? And how has this meaning changed from the past to the present? In what ways does "the problem of suffering" serve to inspire us to care for others? How does our response to suffering reveal our moral and social conditions? In this trenchant work, Arthur …
