Anthropologies of Medicine
A Colloquium on West European and North American Perspectives
Hg./Ed.: Pfleiderer, Beatrix & Bibeau, Gilles
- 275 Seiten
- 1991
- div. Tab.
- 17 x 24 cm
- engl.
- EUR 17,00
- ISBN 3-528-07820-0
Contents:
- Beatrix Pfleiderer: About the Origins of this Volume
Section 1: Culture-Specific Psychosomatic Paradigms
- Thure v. Uexküll: Are Functional Syndroms Culture-Bound?
- Peter Hahn: The Medical Anthropology of Viktor von Weizsäcker in the Present Clinical Context of Heidelberg
- Wolfgang Jacob: Ethnomedical Fundaments in the Work of Viktor von Weizsäcker
- Thomas Ots: Phenomenology of the Body: The Subject-Object Problem in Psychosomatic Medicine and the Role of Traditional Medical Systems herein
- Mariella Pandolfi: Memory within the Body: Woman´s Narrative and Identity in a Southern Italian Village
Section 2: Sociosomatics and Ethnicity
- René Devisch: The Symbolic and the Psychological: Epigstric Patients in Family Medicine in Flanders
- Margaret Lock: Nerves and Nostalgia: Greek-Canadian Immigrants and Medical Care in Québec
- Beatrix Pfleiderer: The Development and Change of Health Research among Migrant Workers in West-Germany: Ideologies and Practice between 1965 and 1986
Section 3: Local Cultures of Biomedicine
- Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good: The Practice of Biomedicine and the Discourse on Hope: A Preliminary Investigation into the Culture of American Oncology
- Deborah R. Gordon: Culture, Cancer, and Communication in Italy
- Jutta Dornheim: Images and Interpretations of Severe Illness: Ethnological Aspects of Dealing with Cancer
- Allan Young: Emil Kraepelin and the Origins of American Psychiatric Diagnosis
Section 4: From Patients´Complaints to Cultural Narrative
- Francis Zimmermann: The Love-Lorn Consumptive: South Asian Ethnography and the Psychosomatic Paradigm
- Paul U. Unschuld: Traditional European and Chinese Definitions of Illness and Medical Practice
Section 5: Medical Systems and Cultural Change: An Analysis of Facts and Theories
- Gilles Bibeau: The Hirarchies of Medicines: A Contextual Analysis of Schismogenic Processes
- Atwood D. Gaines: Cultural Constructivism: Sickness Histories and the Understading of Ethnomedicines beyond Critical Medical Anthropologies
- Carol MacCormack: Holistic Health and a Changing Western World View
List of Contributors