Medicine Rationality And Experience

Author : Byron J. Good
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Medical
ISBN : 052142576X

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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 that neglects many facets of Western medical practice and obscures its kinship with healing in other traditions. Drawing on his research in several American and Middle Eastern medical settings, in this 1993 book Professor Good develops a critical, anthropological account of medical knowledge and practice. He shows how physicians and healers enter and inhabit distinctive worlds of meaning and experience. He explores how stories or illness narratives are joined with bodily experience in shaping and responding to human suffering and argues that moral and aesthetic considerations are present in routine medical practice as in other forms of healing.

Author : Byron J. Good
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1993-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781316582480

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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 that neglects many facets of Western medical practice and obscures its kinship with healing in other traditions. Drawing on his research in several American and Middle Eastern medical settings, in this 1993 book Professor Good develops a critical, anthropological account of medical knowledge and practice. He shows how physicians and healers enter and inhabit distinctive worlds of meaning and experience. He explores how stories or illness narratives are joined with bodily experience in shaping and responding to human suffering and argues that moral and aesthetic considerations are present in routine medical practice as in other forms of healing.

Author : Byron J. Good
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:257084468

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Author : Byron Good
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521415586

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Medicine, Rationality and Experience by Byron Good Pdf

A 1993 analysis of the role of cultural factors in the experience of illness, countering the scientific view of folk medicine as superstitious practice.

Author : Byron Good
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Medical anthropology
ISBN : OCLC:59891171

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Medicine, Rationality, and Experience by Byron Good Pdf

Author : Richard A. Shweder,Byron Good
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226756103

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Clifford Geertz by His Colleagues by Richard A. Shweder,Byron Good Pdf

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, nonreductive interpretive social science and have provoked much excitement and debate about the nature of human understanding. As part of the American Anthropological Association's centennial celebration, the executive board sponsored a presidential session honoring Geertz. Clifford Geertz by His Colleagues compiles the twelve speeches given then by a distinguished panel of social scientists along with a concluding piece by Geertz in which he responds to each speaker and reflects on his own career. These edited speeches cover a broad range of topics, including Geertz's views on morality, cultural critique, interpretivism, time and change, Islam, and violence. A fitting tribute to one of the great thinkers of our age, this collection will be enjoyed by anthropologists as well as students of psychology, history, and philosophy.

Author : Paul Brodwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1996-09-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521575435

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Medicine and Morality in Haiti by Paul Brodwin Pdf

Morality and medicine are inextricably intertwined in rural Haiti, and both are shaped by the different local religious traditions, Christian and Vodoun, as well as by biomedical and folk medical practices. When people fall ill, they seek treatment not only from Western doctors but also from herbalists, religious healers and midwives. Dr Brodwin examines the situational logic, the pragmatic decisions, that guide people in making choices when they are faced with illness. He also explains the moral issues that arise in a society where suffering is associated with guilt, but where different, sometimes conflicting, ethical systems coexist. Moreover, he shows how in the crisis of illness people rework religious identities and are forced to address fundamental social and political problems.

Author : Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good,Sandra Teresa Hyde,Sarah Pinto,Byron Good
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780520252240

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Postcolonial Disorders by Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good,Sandra Teresa Hyde,Sarah Pinto,Byron Good Pdf

The contributors explore modes of social and psychological experience, the constitution of the subject, and forms of subjection that shape the lives of Basque youth, Indonesian artists, members of nongovernmental HIV/AIDS programmes in China and Zaire, and psychiatrists and their patients in Morocco and Ireland.

Author : Kathryn Montgomery
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780195187120

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How Doctors Think by Kathryn Montgomery Pdf

"Although physicians make use of science, this book argues that medicine is not itself a science, but rather an interpretive practice that relies heavily on clinical reasoning." "In How Doctors Think, Kathryn Montgomery contends that assuming medicine is strictly a science can have adverse effects. She suggests these can be significantly reduced by recognizing the vital role of clinical judgment."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : M. Lock,D. Gordon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400927254

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Biomedicine Examined by M. Lock,D. Gordon Pdf

The culture of contemporary medicine is the object of investigation in this book; the meanings and values implicit in biomedical knowledge and practice and the social processes through which they are produced are examined through the use of specific case studies. The essays provide examples of how various facets of 20th century medicine, including edu cation, research, the creation of medical knowledge, the development and application of technology, and day to day medical practice, are per vaded by a value system characteristic of an industrial-capitalistic view of the world in which the idea that science represents an objective and value free body of knowledge is dominant. The authors of the essays are sociologists and anthropologists (in almost equal numbers); also included are papers by a social historian and by three physicians all of whom have steeped themselves in the social sci ences and humanities. This co-operative endeavor, which has necessi tated the breaking down of disciplinary barriers to some extent, is per haps indicative of a larger movement in the social sciences, one in which there is a searching for a middle ground between grand theory and attempts at universal explanations on the one hand, and the context-spe cific empiricism and relativistic accounts characteristic of many historical and anthropological analyses on the other.

Author : Cheryl Mattingly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521639948

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Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots by Cheryl Mattingly Pdf

A study how patients and practitioners transform ordinary clinical interchange into a story-line.

Author : Manfred Horstmanshoff,Marten Stol
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047414315

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Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine by Manfred Horstmanshoff,Marten Stol Pdf

A study of methods in Ancient Near Eastern and Greek and Roman medicine, based on representative text corpora. Central is the question of what is "rational", or not, in the various systems.

Author : John Heritage,Douglas W. Maynard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139455404

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Communication in Medical Care by John Heritage,Douglas W. Maynard Pdf

This 2006 volume provides a comprehensive discussion of communication between doctors and patients in primary care consultations. It brings together a team of leading contributors from the fields of linguistics, sociology and medicine to describe each phase of the primary care consultation, identifying the distinctive tasks, goals and activities that make up each phase of primary care as social interaction. Using conversation analysis techniques, the authors analyze the sequential unfolding of a visit, and describe the dilemmas and conflicts faced by physicians and patients as they work through each of these activities. The result is a view of the medical encounter that takes the perspective of both physicians and patients in a way that is both rigorous and humane. Clear and comprehensive, this book will be essential reading for students and researchers in sociolinguistics, communication studies, sociology, and medicine.

Author : João Biehl,Byron Good,Arthur Kleinman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520247932

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Subjectivity by João Biehl,Byron Good,Arthur Kleinman Pdf

Talks about the ways personal lives are being undone and remade today. This book examines the ethnography of the modern subject, probes the continuity and diversity of modes of personhood across a range of Western and non-Western societies. It considers what happens to individual subjectivity when environments such as communities are transformed.

Author : Thomas J. Csordas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994-11-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521458900

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Embodiment and Experience by Thomas J. Csordas Pdf

Students of culture have been increasingly concerned with the ways in which cultural values are 'inscribed' on the body. These essays go beyond this passive construal of the body to a position in which embodiment is understood as the existential condition of cultural life. From this standpoint embodiment is reducible neither to representations of the body, to the body as an objectification of power, to the body as a physical entity or biological organism, nor to the body as an inalienable centre of individual consciousness. This more sensate and dynamic view is applied by the contributors to a variety of topics, including the expression of emotion, the experience of pain, ritual healing, dietary customs, and political violence. Their purpose is to contribute to a phenomenological theory of culture and self - an anthropology that is not merely about the body, but from the body.