1st Edition
On Knowing and Not Knowing in the Anthropology of Medicine
Edited By Roland Littlewood
Copyright 2007
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
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Social scientific studies of medicine typically assume that systems of medical knowledge are uniform and consistent. But while anthropologists have long rejected the notion that cultures are discrete, bounded, and rule-drive entities, medical anthropology has been slower to develop alternative approaches to understanding cultures of health. This provocative volume considers the theoretical,... Read more
Chapter 1 The Importance of Knowing about not Knowing, Murray Last; Chapter 2 Coconuts and Syphilis: An Essay in Overinterpretation, Roland Littlewood; Chapter 3 On “Medical System” and Questions in Fieldwork, Gilbert Lewis; Chapter 4 Explanatory Models and Oversystematization in Medical Anthropology, Simon Dein; Chapter 5 The Ambivalence of Integrative Medicine, Guido Giarelli; Chapter 6 Not Knowing about Defecation, Sjaak van der Geest; Chapter 7 Christianity, Tradition, AIDS, and Pornography: Knowing Sex in Western Kenya, P. Wenzel Geissler, Ruth J. Prince; Chapter 8 Feeling and Borderlinking in Yaka Healing Arts, René Devisch; Chapter 9 On Knowing and Not Knowing in Latvian Psychiatric Consultations, Vieda Skultans; Chapter 10 Farewell to Fieldwork? Constraints in Anthropological Research in Violent Situations, Els van Dongen; Chapter 11 Neutralizing the Young: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Youth, Pamela Reynolds; Chapter 12 In Touch without Touching: Islam and Healing, David Parkin;
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Littlewood, Roland
