On knowing and not knowing in the anthropology of medicine /
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| Imprint: | Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, ©2007. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 225 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11216675 |
| Summary: | Social scientific studies of medicine typically assume that systems of medical knowledge are uniform and consistent. But while anthropologists have long rejected the notion that cultures are discrete, bounded, and rule-drive entities, medical anthropology has been slower to develop alternative approaches to understanding cultures of health. This provocative volume considers the theoretical, methodological, and ethnographic implications of the fact that medical knowledge is frequently dynamic, incoherent, and contradictory, and that and our understanding of it is necessarily incomplete and partial. In diverse settings from indigenous cultures to Western medical industries, contributors consider such issues as how to define the boundaries of OC medicalOCO knowledge versus other kinds of knowledge; how to understand overlapping and shifting medical discourses; the medical professionOCOs need for anthropologists to produce OC explanatory modelsOCO; the limits of the Western scientific method and the potential for methodological pluralism; constraints on fieldwork including violence and structural factors limiting access; and the subjectivity and interests of the researcher. On Knowing and Not Knowing in the Anthropology of Medicine will stimulate innovative thinking and productive debate for practitioners, researchers, and students in the social science of health and medicine." |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 225 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781598747782 1598747789 1315423332 9781315423333 1315423324 9781315423326 9781315423319 1315423316 1598742752 9781598742756 9781598742749 1598742744 |