Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction: Medical Anthropology as Intellectual Career
  • 2. What Is Specific to Biomedicine?
  • 3. Anthropology of Bioethics
  • 4. A Critique of Objectivity in International Health
  • 5. Suffering and Its Professional Transformation: Toward an Ethnography of Interpersonal Experience / Arthur Kleinman and Joan Kleinman
  • 6. Pain and Resistance: The Delegitimation and Relegitimation of Local Worlds
  • 7. The Social Course of Epilepsy: Chronic Illness as Social Experience in Interior China / Arthur Kleinman, Wen-zhi Wang, Shi-chuo Li, Xue-ming Cheng, Xiu-ying Dai, Kun-tun Li and Joan Kleinman
  • 8. Violence, Culture, and the Politics of Trauma / Arthur Kleinman and Robert Desjarlais
  • 9. The New Wave of Ethnographies in Medical Anthropology
  • Appendix: Works by Arthur Kleinman.