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| Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Anthropology of medicine. Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 1997 (OCoLC)605465129 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Lola Romanucci-Ross; Daniel E Moerman; Laurence R Tancredi |
| ISBN: | 0897894901 9780897894906 0897895169 9780897895163 |
| OCLC Number: | 36165190 |
| Description: | xiv, 400 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Creativity in illness: methodological linkages to the logic and language of science in folk pursuit of health in central Italy / Lola Romanucci-Ross -- Aztec and European medicine in the New World, 1521-1600 / Clara Sue Kidwell -- Phantoms and physicians: social change through medical pluralism / Libbet Crandon-Malamud -- Poisoned apples and honeysuckles: the medicinal plants of Native America / Daniel E. Moerman -- Herbal and symbolic forms of treatment in the medicine of the Lowland Mixe (Oaxaca, Mexico) / Michael Heinrich -- The evolution of human nutrition / Barry Bogin -- Zoonoses and the origins of Old and New World viral diseases: new perspectives / Linda M. Van Blerkom -- Malaria, medicine, and meals: a biobehavioral perspective / Nina L. Etkin and Paul J. Ross -- The impassioned knowledge of the shaman / Lola Romanucci-Ross -- Anarchy, abjection, and absurdity: a case of metaphoric medicine among the Tabwa of Zaire / Allen F. Roberts Physiology and symbols: the anthropological implications of the placebo effect / Daniel E. Moerman -- Narratives of chronic pain / Robert Kugelmann -- The effect of ethnicity on prescriptions for patient controlled analgesia for post-operative pain / Bernardo Ng ... [et al.] -- Stress and its management: the cultural construction of an illness and its treatment / Robert Kugelmann -- Science of the mind in contexts of a culture / Laurence R. Tancredi -- The "new psychiatry": from ideology to cultural error / Lola Romanucci-Ross -- The aging: legal and ethical personhood in culture change / Laurence R. Tancredi and Lola Romanucci-Ross -- The extraneous factor in Western medicine / Lola Romanucci-Ross and Daniel E. Moerman -- "Medical anthropology": convergence of mind and experience in the anthropological imagination / Lola Romanucci-Ross, Daniel E. Moerman, and Laurence R. Tancredi. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Lola Romanucci-Ross, Daniel E. Moerman, Laurence R. Tancredi. |
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- Medical anthropology.
- Traditional medicine.
- Materia medica, Vegetable.
- Mental illness -- Social aspects.
- Psychiatry, Transcultural.
- Medicine, Traditional.
- Anthropology, Cultural.
- Anthropologie médicale.
- Ethnomédecine.
- Phytothérapie.
- Maladies mentales -- Aspect social.
- Ethnopsychiatrie.
- Geneeskunde.
- Volksgeneeskunde.
- Culturele aspecten.
- Anthropologie.
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Medizin.
