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On knowing and not knowing in the anthropology of medicine /
Social scientific studies of medicine typically assume that systems of medical knowledge are uniform and consistent. But while anthropologists have long rejected the notion that cultures are discrete, bounded, and rule-drive entities, medical anthropology has been slower to develop alternative appro...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Walnut Creek, CA :
Left Coast Press,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The importance of knowing about not knowing / Murray Last
- Coconuts and syphilis : an essay in overinterpretation / Roland Littlewood
- On "medical system" and questions in fieldwork / Gilbert Lewis
- Explanatory models and oversystematization in medical anthropology / Simon Dein
- The ambivalence of integrative medicine / Guido Giarelli
- Not knowing about defecation / Sjaak van der Geest
- Christianity, tradition, AIDS, and pornography : knowing sex in western Kenya / P. Wenzel Geissler and Ruth J. Prince
- Feeling and borderlinking in Yaka healing arts / Ren Devisch
- On knowing and not knowing in Latvian psychiatric consultations / Vieda Skultans
- Farewell to fieldwork? : constraints in anthropological research in violent situations / Els van Dongen
- Neutralizing the young : the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and youth / Pamela Reynolds
- In touch without touching : Islam and healing / David Parkin.