Physicians of Western Medicine

• Section I: Introductions.- 1. Among the Physicians: Encounter, Exchange and Transformation.- 2. Including the Physician in Healer-Centered Research: Retrospect and Prospect.- Section II: Core Medicine.- 3. A World of Internal Medicine: Portrait of an Internist.- Section III: Medical Specialties.- 4. Models and Practice in Medicine: Menopause as Syndrome or Life Transition?.- 5. Mary; Patient as Emergent Symbol on a Pediatrics Ward: The Objectification of Meaning in Social Process.- 6. How Surgeons Make Decisions.- 7. Gentle Interrogation: Inquiry and Interaction in Brief Initial Psychiatric Evaluations.- 8. Reflexivity, Countertransference and Clinical Ethnography: A Case From a Psychiatric Cultural Consultation Clinic.- 9. The Once- and the Twice-Born: Self and Practice Among Psychiatrists and Christian Psychiatrists.- Section IV: Interrelations of Medical Specialties.- 10. Discourses on Physician Competence.- 11. Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry: Medicine as Patient, Marginality as Practice.- 12. Disease and Pseudo-Disease: A Case History of Pseudo-Angina.- List of Contributors.- Author Index.

'This book contains some excellent teaching materials for students in anthropology as well as medicine. For practioners of both disciplines, it will surely stimulate discussion about the nature of biomedicine and the ability of anthropology to comprehend it.' American Anthropology (December 1986) 'The authors of this collection are to be congratulated for making such an engaging contribution to the scholarly exploration of contemporary medicine. These essays will prove, I hope, a source of inspiration and a referencepoint for many more studies to come.' Social Science and Medicine, 24:9 (1987) 'These 12 articles by anthropologists break new ground in the area between medicine and social science in that all of the authors describe physicians at work. ...physicians are in for acute culture shock as they encounter familiar subjects portrayed from a different vantage point. ... Anthropologists will rightly consider this book a landmark volume and an impetus to future investigation in the new subspeciality of physician-watching.' Annals of Internal Medicine, 103:3 (1985)