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Sickness and healing : an anthropological perspective / Robert A. Hahn.

By: Publication details: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, c1995.Description: viii, 327 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0300060882
  • 0300068719
Subject(s): NLM classification:
  • WZ 40 H371s 1995
Contents:
Contents; Part one: An anthropological perspective 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? Part two: Biomedicine observed 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 9. Between two worlds: Physicians as patients 10. From medical anthropology to anthropological medicine
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents;

Part one: An anthropological perspective
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?

Part two: Biomedicine observed
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
9. Between two worlds: Physicians as patients
10. From medical anthropology to anthropological medicine

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