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An exploration of the border between medical and social problems, the boundary between health and social change, and a study of the body as the mediator between individual and collective experience. The author argues for an ethnographic approach to moral practice in medicine.

Table of Contents
PREFACE

1
Introduction: Medical Anthropology as Intellectual Career

PART ONE: THE CULTURE OF BIOMEDICINE
2
What Is Specific to Biomedicine?
3
Anthropology of Bioethics
4
A Critique of Objectivity in International Health

PART TWO: SUFFERING AS SOCIAL EXPERIENCE
5
Suffering and Its Professional Transformation:
Toward an Ethnography of Interpersonal Experience
(with Joan Kleinman)
6
Pain and Resistance: The Delegitimation and
Relegitimation of Local Worlds
7
The Social Course of Epilepsy: Chronic Illness
as Social Experience in Interior China
(with Wen-zhi Wang, Shi-chuo Li, Xue-ming Cheng,
Xiu-ying Dai, ICun-tun Li, and Joan Kleinman)
8
Violence, Culture, and the Politics of Trauma
(with Robert Desjarlais)

PART THREE: THE STATE OF MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
9
The New Wave of Ethnographies in Medical Anthropology

APPENDIX: WORKS BY ARTHUR KLEINMAN
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 8/15/1997 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780520209657
      978-0520209657
      ISBN-10 0520209656
      Also in:
      Anthropology Human biology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An exploration of the border between medical and social problems, the boundary between health and social change, and a study of the body as the mediator between individual and collective experience. The author argues for an ethnographic approach to moral practice in medicine.

      Table of Contents
      PREFACE

      1
      Introduction: Medical Anthropology as Intellectual Career

      PART ONE: THE CULTURE OF BIOMEDICINE
      2
      What Is Specific to Biomedicine?
      3
      Anthropology of Bioethics
      4
      A Critique of Objectivity in International Health

      PART TWO: SUFFERING AS SOCIAL EXPERIENCE
      5
      Suffering and Its Professional Transformation:
      Toward an Ethnography of Interpersonal Experience
      (with Joan Kleinman)
      6
      Pain and Resistance: The Delegitimation and
      Relegitimation of Local Worlds
      7
      The Social Course of Epilepsy: Chronic Illness
      as Social Experience in Interior China
      (with Wen-zhi Wang, Shi-chuo Li, Xue-ming Cheng,
      Xiu-ying Dai, ICun-tun Li, and Joan Kleinman)
      8
      Violence, Culture, and the Politics of Trauma
      (with Robert Desjarlais)

      PART THREE: THE STATE OF MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
      9
      The New Wave of Ethnographies in Medical Anthropology

      APPENDIX: WORKS BY ARTHUR KLEINMAN
      NOTES
      REFERENCES
      INDEX

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