Medicine, Rationality, and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective: 1990 (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures)

Biomedicine is often thought to provide a scientific account of the human body and of illness. In this view, non-Western and folk medical systems are regarded as systems of 'belief' and subtly discounted. This is an impoverished perspective for understanding illness and healing across cultures, one that neglects many facets of Western medical practice and obscures its kinship with healing in other traditions. Drawing on his research in several American and Middle Eastern medical settings, in this 1993 book Professor Good develops a critical, anthropological account of medical knowledge and practice. He shows how physicians and healers enter and inhabit distinctive worlds of meaning and experience. He explores how stories or illness narratives are joined with bodily experience in shaping and responding to human suffering and argues that moral and aesthetic considerations are present in routine medical practice as in other forms of healing.

Title - Medicine, Rationality, and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective: 1990 (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures)

Edition -

Author - Byron J. Good

ISBN 13 - 9780521425766

Imprint - Cambridge University Press

Publisher - Cambridge University Press

Date Published - 09/12/1993

Prize -

No. of pages - 262

Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 152 x 229 x 14mm

Weight - 360 g

Languages - English