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Medicine, rationality, and experience : an anthropological perspective / Byron J. Good.

By: Good, ByronMaterial type: Text

TextSeries: The Lewis Henry Morgan lectures ; 1990Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1994Description: xvii, 242 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 0521415586 (hardback); 052142576X (pbk.)Subject(s): Medical anthropology | Social medicineDDC classification: 306.46

Contents:

1. Medical anthropology and the problem of belief 2. Illness representations in medical anthropology: a reading of the field 3. How medicine constructs its objects 4. Semiotics and the study of medical reality 5. The body, illness experience, and the lifeworld: a phenomenological account of chronic pain 6. The narrative representation of illness 7. Aesthetics, rationality and medical anthropology.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University	306.46 GOO/M (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		46694

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1. Medical anthropology and the problem of belief
2. Illness representations in medical anthropology: a reading of the field
3. How medicine constructs its objects
4. Semiotics and the study of medical reality
5. The body, illness experience, and the lifeworld: a phenomenological account of chronic pain
6. The narrative representation of illness
7. Aesthetics, rationality and medical anthropology.

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