Description
Book SynopsisAn 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 ContentsPREFACE
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
