Sickness and healing : an anthropological perspective /

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Author / Creator:Hahn, Robert A., 1945-
Imprint:New Haven : Yale University Press, c1995.
Description:viii, 327 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1696619
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ISBN:0300060882 (c : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 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?
  • 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, 1903-1989
  • 9. Between Two Worlds: Physicians as Patients
  • 10. From Medical Anthropology to Anthropological Medicine.