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Subjectivity
Ethnographic Investigations
Av João Biehl, Byron J. Good m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
440 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 …
Clifford Geertz by His Colleagues
Av Richard A. Shweder, Byron J. Good
Inbunden, 2005
839 kr
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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, non-reductive interpretive social science and have provoked much excitement and debate about the nature of human …
Clifford Geertz by His Colleagues
Av Richard A. Shweder, Byron J. Good
Häftad, 2005
259 kr
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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, non-reductive interpretive social science and have provoked much excitement and debate about the nature of human …
Culture and Depression
Studies in the Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Psychiatry of Affect and Disorder
Av Arthur Kleinman, Byron J. Good
Häftad, 1986
369 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
283 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 …
Postcolonial Disorders
Av Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Sandra Teresa Hyde m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
326 kr
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The essays in this volume reflect on the nature of subjectivity in the diverse places where anthropologists work at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Contributors explore everyday modes of social and psychological experience, the constitution of the subject, and forms of subjection that …
Culture and Depression
Studies in the Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Psychiatry of Affect and Disorder
Av Byron J. Good, Arthur Kleinman
E-bok, 1986
602 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 …
Subjectivity
Ethnographic Investigations
Av Arthur Kleinman, Byron J. Good m. fl.
E-bok, 2007
516 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 …
Postcolonial Disorders
Av Byron J. Good, Sarah Pinto m. fl.
E-bok, 2008
553 kr
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The essays in this volume reflect on the nature of subjectivity in the diverse places where anthropologists work at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Contributors explore everyday modes of social and psychological experience, the constitution of the subject, and forms of subjection that …
Medicine, Rationality and Experience
An Anthropological Perspective
Inbunden, 1993
1002 kr
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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 …
Medicine, Rationality and Experience
An Anthropological Perspective
Häftad, 1993
419 kr
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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 …
Culture and Panic Disorder
Av Devon E. Hinton, Byron J. Good
Inbunden, 2009
1640 kr
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Psychiatric classifications created in one culture may not be as universal as we assume, and it is difficult to determine the validity of a classification even in the culture in which it was created. Culture and Panic Disorder explores how the psychiatric classification of panic disorder first …
Culture and Panic Disorder
Av Devon E. Hinton, Byron J. Good
Häftad, 2009
398 kr
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Psychiatric classifications created in one culture may not be as universal as we assume, and it is difficult to determine the validity of a classification even in the culture in which it was created. Culture and Panic Disorder explores how the psychiatric classification of panic disorder first …
Culture and Panic Disorder
Av Devon E. Hinton, Byron J. Good
E-bok, 2009
517 kr
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Psychiatric classifications created in one culture may not be as universal as we assume, and it is difficult to determine the validity of a classification even in the culture in which it was created. Culture and Panic Disorder explores how the psychiatric classification of panic disorder first …
Culture and PTSD
Trauma in Global and Historical Perspective
Av Devon E. Hinton, Byron J. Good
Häftad, 2019
552 kr
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Since the 1970s, understanding of the effects of trauma, including flashbacks and withdrawal, has become widespread in the United States. As a result Americans can now claim that the phrase posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is familiar even if the American Psychiatric Association's criteria for …
Culture and PTSD
Trauma in Global and Historical Perspective
Av Devon E. Hinton, Byron J. Good
Inbunden, 2015
1383 kr
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Since the 1970s, understanding of the effects of trauma, including flashbacks and withdrawal, has become widespread in the United States. As a result Americans can now claim that the phrase posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is familiar even if the American Psychiatric Association's criteria for …
Culture and PTSD
Trauma in Global and Historical Perspective
Av Devon E. Hinton, Byron J. Good
E-bok, 2015
634 kr
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Since the 1970s, understanding of the effects of trauma, including flashbacks and withdrawal, has become widespread in the United States. As a result Americans can now claim that the phrase posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is familiar even if the American Psychiatric Association's criteria for …
Medicine, Rationality and Experience
An Anthropological Perspective
E-bok, 1993
408 kr
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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, …
A Reader in Medical Anthropology
Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities
Av Byron J. Good, Michael M. J. Fischer m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
606 kr
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A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities brings together articles from the key theoretical approaches in the field of medical anthropology as well as related science and technology studies. The editors’ comprehensive introductions evaluate the historical …
A Reader in Medical Anthropology
Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities
Av Good, Byron J. Good m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1421 kr
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A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities brings together articles from the key theoretical approaches in the field of medical anthropology as well as related science and technology studies. The editors’ comprehensive introductions evaluate the historical …
