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Title: Medicine, Rationality and Experience : An Anthropological Perspective by Byron J. Good ISBN: 0-521-42576-X Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 09 December, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Theoritical
Comment: This book is valuable in that it proposes an overview of the field of medical anthropology and also proposes a literary approach. At the same time, its quality is its weakness: it does not look at the political economy side.
Rating: 5
Summary: A worthwhile tour de force
Comment: Simply put, the interdisciplinary group of anthropologists, physicians, and others at Harvard have been doing some of the most important and far-reaching work in the area of medical anthropology ever. Byron Good's book, initially given as the Henry Louis Morgan Lectures at Rochester, is a beautifully written and accessible summation of much of the innovative thinking going on with his colleagues and former students --- most notably folks like MaryJo Delvecchio Good, Art Kleinman, Lawrence Cohen, Pete Guarnaccia, Carol Mattingly, and others. The major controversies facing anthropology and medicine have been legion, and the discipline has, indeed, been put to ethically-suspect use in service to imperialist ends before. However, as Good argues so effectively, there is still much use for medical anthropology to serve progressive ends in a democratically-ordered world.
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Title: Knowledge, Power, and Practice: The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care, No 36) by Shirley Lindenbaum, Margaret Lock ISBN: 0520077857 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: October, 1993 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing by Cheryl Mattingly, Linda C. Garro ISBN: 0520218256 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 04 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture by Arthur Kleinman ISBN: 0520045114 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: November, 1981 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Sickness and Healing: An Anthropological Perspective by Robert A. Hahn ISBN: 0300068719 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues, Updated Edition With a New Preface by Paul Farmer ISBN: 0520229134 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 05 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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