Sickness and healing : an anthropological perspective /

The ways in which people respond to sickness differ greatly from society to society. In this book anthropologist and epidemiologist Robert A. Hahn examines how Western and non-Western cultures influence the definition, experience, and treatment of sickness.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hahn, Robert A., 1945- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1995]
Temas:
Medical anthropology.
Social medicine.
Medicine > History.
Ethnology.
Diseases.
History of Medicine
Anthropology, Cultural
Disease
Anthropology, Medical
Social Medicine
Ethnology
Anthropologie médicale.
Médecine sociale.
Médecine > Histoire.
Ethnologie.
Maladies.
history of medicine.
ethnology.
social anthropology.
illness.
disease.
Medicine
Diseases
Medical anthropology
Social medicine
Anthropologie
Ethnologie
Medizin
Ethnomedizin
Sozialmedizin
Medische antropologie.
Ethnomédecine.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The Universe of Sickness
  • 2. Culture-bound Syndromes Unbound
  • 3. Three Theories of Sickness and Healing
  • 4. The Role of Society and Culture in Sickness and Healing
  • 5. Anthropology and Epidemiology: One Logic or Two?
  • 6. Biomedicine as a Cultural System
  • 7. A World of Internal Medicine: Portrait of an Internist
  • 8. Divisions of Labor: Obstetrician, Woman, and Society in Williams Obstetrics, 1903-1989
  • 9. Between Two Worlds: Physicians as Patients
  • 10. From Medical Anthropology to Anthropological Medicine.

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