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Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture
An Exploration of the Borderland between Anthropology, Medicine, and Psychiatry
Häftad, 1981
297 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 …
Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire
Häftad, 1982
441 kr
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In this book, Dr. John M. Janzen describes patterns of healing among the BaKongo of Lower Zaire in Africa, who, like many people elsewhere, utilize cosmopolitan medicine alongside traditional healing practices. What criteria, he asks, determine the choice of the alternative therapies? And what is …
Medieval Islamic Medicine
Ibn Ridwan's Treatise "On the Prevention of Bodily Ills in Egypt"
Inbunden, 1984
794 kr
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This book describes medieval Islamic medicine and to explore a specific medical text, On the Prevention of Bodily Ills in Egypt by 'Ali ibn Ridwan (A.D. 998 - 1068). It seeks to answer the following questions: What did it mean to be a doctor in medieval Islamic society? What was the nature of the …
East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan
Varieties of Medical Experience
Häftad, 1984
441 kr
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"An excellent description and analysis of East Asian medicine ...Based on fieldwork conducted in Japan during 1973 and 1974, which involved the use of a variecy of participant-observer techniques, as well as extensive reading in primary and secondary sources in Japanese and English, Lock's study …
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 …
Wives and Midwives
Childbirth and Nutrition in Rural Malaysia
Häftad, 1987
412 kr
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In this widely-praised study, Carol Laderman provides a vivid picture of the daily life of rural Malays as she focuses on their dietary practices and the ritual and medical aspects of childbirth procedures. Apprenticed to a village midwife and a local shaman, she was able to observe a traditional …
White Plague, Black Labor
Tuberculosis and the Political Economy of Health and Disease in South Africa
Häftad, 1989
306 kr
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Why does tuberculosis, a disease which is both curable and preventable, continue to produce over 50,000 new cases a year in South Africa, primarily among blacks? In answering this question Randall Packard traces the history of one of the most devastating diseases in twentieth-century Africa, …
Making of Rehabilitation
A Political Economy of Medical Specialization, 1890-1980
Av Glenn Gritzer, Arnold Arluke
Häftad, 1989
412 kr
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Focusing on the history of one medical field--rehabilitation medicine--this book provides the first systematic analysis of the underlying forces that shape medical specialization, challenging traditional explanations of occupational specialization.
Social Basis of Health and Healing in Africa
Av Steven Feierman, John M. Janzen
Häftad, 1992
446 kr
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Until now our knowledge of African health and healing has been extensive but fragmented. Here in eighteen essays is the first comprehensive account of disease, health,and healing practices in the African continent. The contributors all emphasize the social conditions linked to ill health and the …
Policies, Plans, and People
Foreign Aid and Health Development
Häftad, 1989
412 kr
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Judith Justice uses an interdisciplinary approach to show how anthropologists and planners can combine their expertise to make health care programs culturally compatible with the populations they serve.
Disease Change and the Role of Medicine
The Navajo Experience
Häftad, 1989
412 kr
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Stephen Kunitz's work raises crucial issues for public policy in the medical field, and will be valuable for social scientists, physicians, and health professionals concerned with the social context of public health and other medical facilities.
Old, Alone, and Neglected
Care of the Aged in Scotland and the United States
Häftad, 1990
400 kr
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As the median age of the population increases, the care and housing of the elderly in the U.S. are of increasing concern. Jeanie Kayser-Jones compares a typical private institution in the U.S. with a government-owned home in Scotland. Her analysis compels attention to the systematic abuse of the …
Ngoma
Discourses of Healing in Central and Southern Africa
Inbunden, 1992
771 kr
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Ngoma, in Bantu, means drum, song, performance, and healing cult or association. A widespread form of ritual healing in Central and Southern Africa, ngoma is fully investigated here for the first time and interpreted in a contemporary context. John Janzen's daring study incorporates drumming and …
Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge
Av Charles Leslie, Allan Young
Häftad, 1992
441 kr
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Like its classic predecessor, Asian Medical Systems, Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge significantly expands the study of Asian medicine. These essays ask how patients and practitioners know what they know--what evidence of disease or health they consider convincing and what cultural traditions 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 …
Susto
A Folk Illness
Av Arthur J. Rubel, Carl W. O'Nell m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
412 kr
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Widespread throughout Latin America, susto is a folk illness associated with a broad array of symptoms. It is considered by susceptible populations to be a sickness caused by the separation of soul and body which is precipitated by a supernatural force. Most studies of culture-bound diseases have …
Knowledge, Power, and Practice
The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life
Av Shirley Lindenbaum, Margaret M. Lock
Häftad, 1993
485 kr
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These original essays, which combine theoretical argument with empirical observation, constitute a state-of-the-art platform for future research in medical anthropology. Ranging in time and locale, the essays are based on research in historical and cultural settings. The contributors accept the …
Essential Subtleties on the Silver Sea
The Yin-Hai Jing-Wei: A Chinese Classic on Ophthalmology
Inbunden, 1999
1165 kr
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Here is the first translation into English of the complete Yin-Hai Jing-Wei, a classic fifteenth-century text on Chinese ophthalmology. As one of the few original manuscripts on traditional Chinese medicine translated into a Western language, this work offers an unprecedented view of the practice …
Taming the Wind of Desire
Psychology, Medicine, and Aesthetics in Malay Shamanistic Performance
Häftad, 1993
441 kr
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Charged with restoring harmony and relieving pain, the Malay shaman places his patients in trance and encourages them to express their talents, drives, personality traits--the "Inner Winds" of Malay medical lore--in a kind of performance. These healing ceremonies, formerly viewed by Western …
Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest
Temiar Music and Medicine
Häftad, 1993
289 kr
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Music and dance play a central role in the 'healing arts' of the Senoi Temiar, a group of hunters and horticulturalists dwelling in the rainforest of peninsular Malaysia. As musicologist and anthropologist, Marina Roseman recorded and transcribed Temiar rituals, while as a member of the community …
From the Fat of Our Souls
Social Change, Political Process, and Medical Pluralism in Bolivia
Häftad, 1993
412 kr
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From the Fat of Our Souls offers a revealing new perspective on medicine, and the reasons for choosing or combining indigenous and cosmopolitan medical systems, in the Andean highlands. Closely observing the dialogue that surrounds medicine and medical care among Indians and Mestizos, Catholics and …
Emptying Beds
The Work of an Emergency Psychiatric Unit
Häftad, 1995
412 kr
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The work of inner-city emergency psychiatric units might best be described as 'medicine under siege'. "Emptying Beds" is the result of the author's two-year immersion in one such unit and its work. It is an account of the strategies developed by a staff of psychiatrists, social workers, nurses, and …
Possessed and the Dispossessed
Spirits, Identity, and Power in a Madagascar Migrant Town
Häftad, 1994
428 kr
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This finely drawn portrait of a complex, polycultural urban community in Madagascar emphasizes the role of spirit medium healers, a group heretofore seen as having little power. These women, Leslie Sharp argues, are far from powerless among the peasants and migrant laborers who work the land in …
Medicine in China
A History of Ideas, 25th Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface
Häftad, 2010
315 kr
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In the first comprehensive and analytical study of therapeutic concepts and practices in China, Paul Unschuld traced the history of documented health care from its earliest extant records to present developments. This edition is updated with a new preface which details the immense ideological …
Simple Matter of Salt
An Ethnography of Nutritional Deficiency in Spain
Häftad, 2018
515 kr
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Why do certain easily preventable diseases persist in the modern world? Renate Lellep Fernandez sheds light on this paradox by investigating the high incidence of iodine deficiency disease (IDD) among mountain villagers in northern Spain. Just as the mystery of non-prevention leads the author far …
Lives at Risk
Public Health in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
Häftad, 1990
500 kr
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Lives at Risk describes the introduction of Western medicine into Egypt. The two major innovations undertaken by Muhammad Ali in the mid-nineteenth century were a Western-style school of medicine and an international Quarantine Board. The ways in which these institutions succeeded and failed will …
Mammal Skin
Av V.E. Sokolov
Häftad, 1982
894 kr
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Mammalian Skin, a complex and multifunctional system, serves as a vital interface between the organism and its environment. Its structure reflects an intricate balance between protection, sensory perception, and adaptability. The skin, composed of the epidermis, dermis, and subcutaneous fat, is …
Therapy, Ideology, and Social Change
Mental Healing in Urban Ghana
Häftad, 1984
515 kr
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Therapy, Ideology, and Social Change: Mental Healing in Urban Ghana by Leith Mullings examines how therapeutic systems both reflect and reproduce the social relations and ideologies of their settings. Focusing on Ghana, Mullings situates indigenous psychotherapies within broader debates on the …
End of an Illusion
The Future of Health Policy in Western Industrialized Nations
Av Jean De Kervasdoue, John R. Kimberly m. fl.
Häftad, 1984
614 kr
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The End of an Illusion: The Future of Health Policy in Western Industrialized Nations critically examines the evolving challenges in health policy, focusing on the unsustainable nature of current systems in the face of rising medical costs and limited resources. The book argues that while health …
Maternity, Medicine, and Power
Reproductive Decisions in Urban Benin
Häftad, 1989
515 kr
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Maternity, Medicine, and Power: Reproductive Decisions in Urban Benin explores the complex interplay of cultural beliefs, socio-economic factors, and medical systems influencing the reproductive choices of urban Bariba women in Parakou, Benin. The book examines how traditional Bariba values—such as …
