The anthropology of medicine : from culture to method / edited by Lola Romanucci-Ross, Daniel E. Moerman, Laurence R. Tancredi.
Material type: TextPublisher: Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 1997Edition: Third editionDescription: xiv, 400 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0897894901
- 9780897894906
- 0897895169
- 9780897895163
- 306.461 21
- GN296 .A63 1997
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Creativity in illness: methodological linkages to the logic and language of science in folk pursuit of health in central Italy / Lola Romanucci-Ross -- Aztec and European medicine in the New World, 1521-1600 / Clara Sue Kidwell -- Phantoms and physicians: social change through medical pluralism / Libbet Crandon-Malamud -- Poisoned apples and honeysuckles: the medicinal plants of Native America / Daniel E. Moerman -- Herbal and symbolic forms of treatment in the medicine of the Lowland Mixe (Oaxaca, Mexico) / Michael Heinrich -- The evolution of human nutrition / Barry Bogin -- Zoonoses and the origins of Old and New World viral diseases: new perspectives / Linda M. Van Blerkom -- Malaria, medicine, and meals: a biobehavioral perspective / Nina L. Etkin and Paul J. Ross -- The impassioned knowledge of the shaman / Lola Romanucci-Ross -- Anarchy, abjection, and absurdity: a case of metaphoric medicine among the Tabwa of Zaire / Allen F. Roberts
Physiology and symbols: the anthropological implications of the placebo effect / Daniel E. Moerman -- Narratives of chronic pain / Robert Kugelmann -- The effect of ethnicity on prescriptions for patient controlled analgesia for post-operative pain / Bernardo Ng ... [et al.] -- Stress and its management: the cultural construction of an illness and its treatment / Robert Kugelmann -- Science of the mind in contexts of a culture / Laurence R. Tancredi -- The "new psychiatry": from ideology to cultural error / Lola Romanucci-Ross -- The aging: legal and ethical personhood in culture change / Laurence R. Tancredi and Lola Romanucci-Ross -- The extraneous factor in Western medicine / Lola Romanucci-Ross and Daniel E. Moerman -- "Medical anthropology": convergence of mind and experience in the anthropological imagination / Lola Romanucci-Ross, Daniel E. Moerman, and Laurence R. Tancredi -- --
Preface: The Cultural Context of Medicine and the Biohuman Paradigm -- 1. Creativity in Illness: Methodological Linkages to the Logic and Language of Science in Folk Pursuit of Health in Central Italy -- 2. Aztec and European Medicine in the New World, 1521-1600 -- 3. Phantoms and Physicians: Social Change through Medical Pluralism -- 4. Poisoned Apples and Honeysuckles: The Medicinal Plants of Native America -- 5. Herbal and Symbolic Forms of Treatment in the Medicine of the Lowland Mixe (Oaxaca, Mexico) -- 6. The Evolution of Human Nutrition -- 7. Zoonoses and the Origins of Old and New World Viral Diseases: New Perspectives -- 8. Malaria, Medicine, and Meals: A Biobehavioral Perspective -- 9. The Impassioned Knowledge of the Shaman -- 10. Anarchy, Abjection, and Absurdity: A Case of Metaphoric Medicine among the Tabwa of Zaire -- 11. Physiology and Symbols: The Anthropological Implications of the Placebo Effect -- 12. Narratives of Chronic Pain -- 13. The Effect of Ethnicity on Prescriptions for Patient Controlled Analgesia for Post-Operative Pain -- 14. Stress and Its Management: The Cultural Construction of an Illness and Its Treatment -- 15. Science of the Mind in Contexts of a Culture -- 16. The "New Psychiatry": From Ideology to Cultural Error -- 17. The Aging: Legal and Ethical Personhood in Culture Change -- 18. The Extraneous Factor in Western Medicine -- 19. "Medical Anthropology": Convergence of Mind and Experience in the Anthropological Imagination -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.
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