Sickness and healing : an anthropological perspective / Robert A. Hahn.
Publication details: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, c1995.Description: viii, 327 p. ; 25 cmISBN:- 0300060882
- 0300068719
- WZ 40 H371s 1995
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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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