Anthropologies of Medicine A Colloquium on West European and North American Perspectives

Anthropologies of Medicine A Colloquium on West European and North American Perspectives / edited by Beatrix Pfleiderer, Gilles Bibeau.

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Pfleiderer, Beatrix (Editor), Bibeau, Gilles (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wiesbaden : Vieweg+Teubner Verlag : Imprint: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1991.
Edition:1st ed. 1991.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Anthropology.
Medical ethics.
Medicine.
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Table of Contents:
  • About the Origins of this Volume
  • Section 1: Culture-Specific Psychosomatic Paradigms
  • Are functional syndromes culture-bound?
  • The Medical Anthropology of Viktor von Weizsäcker in the Present Clinical Context of Heidelberg
  • Ethnomedical Fundaments in the Work of Viktor von Weizsäcker
  • Phenomenology of the Body: The Subject-Object Problem in Psychosomatic Medicine and the Role of traditional Medical Systems herein
  • Memory within the Body: Women’s Narrative and Identity in a Southern Italian Village
  • Section 2: Sociosomatics and Ethnicity
  • The Symbolic and the Physiological: Epigastric Patients in Family Medicine in Flanders
  • Nerves and Nostalgia: Greek-Canadian Immigrants and Medical Care in Québec
  • The Development and Change of Health Research among Migrant Workers in West-Germany: Ideologies and Practice between 1956 and 1986
  • Section 3: Local Cultures of Biomedicine
  • The Practice of Biomedicine and the Discourse on Hope: A Preliminary Investigation into the Culture of American Oncology
  • Culture, Cancer, and Communication in Italy
  • Images and Interpretations of Severe Illness: Ethnological Aspects of Dealing with Cancer
  • Emil Kraepelin and the Origins of American Psychiatric Diagnosis
  • Section 4: From Patients’ Complaints to Cultural Narrative
  • The Love-Lorn Consumptive: South Asian Ethnography and the Psychosomatic Paradigm
  • Traditional European and Chinese Definitions of Illness and Medical Practice
  • Section 5: Medical Systems and Cultural Change: An Analysis of Facts and Theories
  • The Hierarchies of Medicines: A Contextual Analysis of Schismogenic Processes
  • Cultural Constructivism: Sickness Histories and the Understanding of Ethnomedicines beyond Critical Medical Anthropologies
  • Holistic Health and a Changing Western World View
  • List of Contributors.

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