Medicine, Rationality and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective
Good, Byron J.; Good
ISBN 10: 052142576X ISBN 13: 9780521425766
Published by Cambridge University Press, 1994
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Medicine supposedly offers a scientific account of the human body and of illness, and it follows that scientific medicine treats all forms of folk medicine as little more than superstitious practices. Professor Good argues that this impoverished perspective neglects many facets of Western medical practice and obscures its kinship with healing in other traditions. Drawing on his own anthropological research in America and the Middle East, his analysis of illness and medicine explores the role of cultural factors in the experience of illness and the practice of medicine.
From the Back Cover: Biomedicine is often thought to provide a universal scientific account of the human body and illness. In this view, non-Western and folk medical system are regarded as system of 'belief' and and subtly discounted.
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Title: Medicine, Rationality and Experience: An ...
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 1994
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good
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