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PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-100520209656
ISBN-139780520209657
eBay Product ID (ePID)413186
Product Key Features
Number of Pages300 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameWriting at the Margin : Discourse between Anthropology and Medicine
SubjectHealth Care Delivery, Anthropology / General
Publication Year1997
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSocial Science, Medical
AuthorArthur Kleinman
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN95-035194
Dewey Edition20
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal306.4/61/01
Table Of ContentPREFACE 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
SynopsisOne of the most influential and creative scholars in medical anthropology takes stock of his recent intellectual odysseys in this collection of essays. Arthur Kleinman, an anthropologist and psychiatrist who has studied in Taiwan, China, and North America since 1968, draws upon his bicultural, multidisciplinary background to propose alternative strategies for thinking about how, in the postmodern world, the social and medical relate. Writing at the Margin explores the border between medical and social problems, the boundary between health and social change. Kleinman studies the body as the mediator between individual and collective experience, finding that many health problems-for example the trauma of violence or depression in the course of chronic pain-are less individual medical problems than interpersonal experiences of social suffering. He argues for an ethnographic approach to moral practice in medicine, one that embraces the infrapolitical context of illness, the responses to it, the social institutions relating to it, and the way it is configured in medical ethics. Previously published in various journals, these essays have been revised, updated, and brought together with an introduction, an essay on violence and the politics of post-traumatic stress disorder, and a new chapter that examines the contemporary ethnographic literature of medical anthropology., One of the most influential and creative scholars in medical anthropology takes stock of his recent intellectual odysseys in this collection of essays. Arthur Kleinman, an anthropologist and psychiatrist who has studied in Taiwan, China, and North America since 1968, draws upon his bicultural, multidisciplinary background to propose alternative strategies for thinking about how, in the postmodern world, the social and medical relate. Writing at the Marginexplores the border between medical and social problems, the boundary between health and social change. Kleinman studies the body as the mediator between individual and collective experience, finding that many health problems--for example the trauma of violence or depression in the course of chronic pain--are less individual medical problems than interpersonal experiences of social suffering. He argues for an ethnographic approach to moral practice in medicine, one that embraces the infrapolitical context of illness, the responses to it, the social institutions relating to it, and the way it is configured in medical ethics. Previously published in various journals, these essays have been revised, updated, and brought together with an introduction, an essay on violence and the politics of post-traumatic stress disorder, and a new chapter that examines the contemporary ethnographic literature of medical anthropology., One of the most influential and creative scholars in medical anthropology takes stock of his recent intellectual odysseys in this collection of essays. Arthur Kleinman, an anthropologist and psychiatrist who has studied in Taiwan, China, and North America since 1968, draws upon his bicultural, multidisciplinary background to propose alternative strategies for thinking about how, in the postmodern world, the social and medical relate. Writing at the Margin explores the border between medical and social problems, the boundary between health and social change. Kleinman studies the body as the mediator between individual and collective experience, finding that many health problems--for example the trauma of violence or depression in the course of chronic pain--are less individual medical problems than interpersonal experiences of social suffering. He argues for an ethnographic approach to moral practice in medicine, one that embraces the infrapolitical context of illness, the responses to it, the social institutions relating to it, and the way it is configured in medical ethics. Previously published in various journals, these essays have been revised, updated, and brought together with an introduction, an essay on violence and the politics of post-traumatic stress disorder, and a new chapter that examines the contemporary ethnographic literature of medical anthropology.
LC Classification NumberGN296.K566 1997
