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On Knowing and Not Knowing in the Anthropology of Medicine
Engelsk
Bogcover for On Knowing and Not Knowing in the Anthropology of Medicine af , 9781598742756
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
244
ISBN-13:
9781598742756
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1598742752
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
15 feb 2007
Størrelse i cm:
22,9 x 15,0 x 1,6
Oplagsdato:
15 feb 2007

On Knowing and Not Knowing in the Anthropology of Medicine

Engelsk
Paperback 2007
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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, methodological, and ethnographic implications of the fact that medical knowledge is frequently dynamic, incoherent, and contradictory, and that and our understanding of it is necessarily incomplete and partial. In diverse settings from indigenous cultures to Western medical industries, contributors consider such issues as how to define the boundaries of “medical” knowledge versus other kinds of knowledge; how to understand overlapping and shifting medical discourses; the medical profession’s need for anthropologists to produce “explanatory models”; the limits of the Western scientific method and the potential for methodological pluralism; constraints on fieldwork including violence and structural factors limiting access; and the subjectivity and interests of the researcher. On Knowing and Not Knowing in the Anthropology of Medicine will stimulate innovative thinking and productive debate for practitioners, researchers, and students in the social science of health and medicine.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
244
ISBN-13:
9781598742756
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1598742752
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
15 feb 2007
Størrelse i cm:
22,9 x 15,0 x 1,6
Oplagsdato:
15 feb 2007
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