Medicine, rationality, and experience: an anthropological perspective / Byron J. Good
2001, Reprint. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #354135
Physical description: xvii, 242 pages. Contents:
Medical anthropology and the problem of belief -- Illness representations in medical anthropology: a reading of the field -- How medicine constructs its objects -- Semiotics and the study of medical reality -- The body, illness experience, and the lifeworld: a phenomenological account of chronic pain -- The narrative representation of illness -- Aesthetics, rationality, and medical anthropology. Subjects:
Medical anthropology.
Social medicine. Social Sciences Anthropology. Disciplines and Occupations. Behavioral Disciplines and Activities.
Psychiatry and Psychology.
Price: €10.95