Anthropology of Medicine

From Culture to Method

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

AvDaniel Moerman,Lola Romanucci-Ross,Laurence R. Tancredi

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This long-awaited revision of what has now become the classic text in medical anthropology contains a wealth of new material on subjects as diverse as aging, creativity, and ideology. Originally cited in ^IAmerican Anthropologist^R as must reading for all medical anthropologists, physicians, advanced medical anthropology students and advanced medical students, this new edition should prove twice as valuable. It is both a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly growing field of medical anthropology and a state-of-the-art reference work. The authors bring new perspectives to our understanding of both Western and non-Western medicine, from the biochemical and physiological aspects of health care in preindustrialized cultures to cultural and ideological factors inherent in past and present Western medical care. New chapters focus on ethnobotany, placebo and pain, shamanism, and psychiatry.The contributors to this volume examine the acculturation process of healer, physician, and patient in diverse cultural settings. They explore the social and cultural context of medical events as well as the process of medical thought and problem solving. Medicine, they illustrate, embraces or is embraced by both the cultural and biological dimensions of mankind. From this perspective they show how human belief, knowledge, and action structure the experience of disease and affect ways in which doctors, healers, and patients experience illness and influence the matrix of decision making. This book is essential for students and professionals in anthropology, medicine, and all social science.

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Utgivningsdatum1997-09-23
Mått156 x 235 x 22 mm
Vikt652 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor416
Upplaga3
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780897895163

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LOLA ROMANUCCI-ROSS is Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine and Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. A pioneer in the field of medical anthropology, she has written widely on the subject. She is the author of several other books, including One Hundred Towers: An Italian Odyssey of Cultural Survival (1991) and Mead's Other Manus (1988), both published by Bergin & Garvey, and the third edition of Ethnic Identity: Creation, Conflict and Accomodation (with George De Vos).DANIEL E. MOERMAN is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Dearborn. He is the author of numerous articles on ethnobotany and the definitive work on the medicinal use of plants by Native Americans.LAURENCE R. TANCREDI is clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at New York University. He is author of numerous articles and books on legal issues in medicine and medical ethics. He is also in the practice of psychiatry in New York City.

Preface: The Cultural Context of Medicine and the Biohuman ParadigmMedical Systems and the Uses of ChoiceCreativity in Illness: Methodological Linkages to the Logic and Language of Science in Folk Pursuit of Health in Central Italy by Lola Romanucci-RossAztec and European Medicine in the New World, 1521-1600 by Clara Sue KidwellPhantoms and Physicians: Social Change Through Medical Pluralism by Libbet Crandon-MalamudEmpirical Analyses of Non-Western Medical Practices and Medical EcologyPoisoned Apples and Honeysuckles: The Medicinal Plants of Native America by Daniel E. MoermanHerbal and Symbolic Forms of Treatment in the Medicine of The Lowland Mixe by Michael HeinrichThe Evolution of Human Nutrition by Barry BoginZoonoses and the Origins of Old and New World Viral Diseases--New Perspectives by Linda M. Van BlerkomMalaria, Medicine, and Meals: A Biobehavioral Perspective by Nina L. Etkin and Paul J. RossEmbodied Mind; Metaphors of Pain, Placebo, and Symbolic HealingThe Impassioned Knowledge of the Shaman by Lola Romanucci-RossAnarchy, Abjection, and Absurdity: A Case of Metaphoric Medicine among the Tabwa of Zaire by Allen F. RobertsPhysiology and Symbols: The Anthropological Implications of the Placebo Effect by Daniel E. MoermanNarratives of Chronic Pain by Robert KugelmannThe Effect of Ethnicity on Prescriptions for Patient Controlled Analgesia for Post Operative Pain by Bernardo Ng, Joel E. Dimsdale, Jens D. Rollnik, and Harvey ShapiroModern Medical Inquiry and Culture ChangeStress and Its Management: The Cultural Construction of an Illness and Its Treatment by Robert KugelmannScience of Mind in Contexts of a Culture by Laurence R. TancrediThe "New Psychiatry": From Ideology to Cultural Error by Lola Romanucci-RossThe Aging: Legal and Ethcial Personhood in Cultural Change by Laurence R. Tancredi and Lola Romanucci-RossThe Extraneous Factor in Western Medicine by Lola Romanucci-Ross and Daniel E. Moerman"Medical Anthropology": Convergence of Mind and Experience in the Anthropological Imagination by Lola Romanucci-Ross, Daniel E. Moerman, and Laurence R. TancrediIndex