Anthropologies of Medicine [electronic resource] : A Colloquium on West European and North American Perspectives /

About the Origins of this Volume -- Section 1: Culture-Specific Psychosomatic Paradigms -- Are functional syndromes culture-bound? -- The Medical Anthropology of Viktor von Weizsäcker in the Present Clinical Context of Heidelberg -- Ethnomedical Fundaments in the Work of Viktor von Weizsäcker -- Phenomenology of the Body: The Subject-Object Problem in Psychosomatic Medicine and the Role of traditional Medical Systems herein -- Memory within the Body: Women’s Narrative and Identity in a Southern Italian Village -- Section 2: Sociosomatics and Ethnicity -- The Symbolic and the Physiological: Epigastric Patients in Family Medicine in Flanders -- Nerves and Nostalgia: Greek-Canadian Immigrants and Medical Care in Québec -- The Development and Change of Health Research among Migrant Workers in West-Germany: Ideologies and Practice between 1956 and 1986 -- Section 3: Local Cultures of Biomedicine -- The Practice of Biomedicine and the Discourse on Hope: A Preliminary Investigation into the Culture of American Oncology -- Culture, Cancer, and Communication in Italy -- Images and Interpretations of Severe Illness: Ethnological Aspects of Dealing with Cancer -- Emil Kraepelin and the Origins of American Psychiatric Diagnosis -- Section 4: From Patients’ Complaints to Cultural Narrative -- The Love-Lorn Consumptive: South Asian Ethnography and the Psychosomatic Paradigm -- Traditional European and Chinese Definitions of Illness and Medical Practice -- Section 5: Medical Systems and Cultural Change: An Analysis of Facts and Theories -- The Hierarchies of Medicines: A Contextual Analysis of Schismogenic Processes -- Cultural Constructivism: Sickness Histories and the Understanding of Ethnomedicines beyond Critical Medical Anthropologies -- Holistic Health and a Changing Western World View -- List of Contributors.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Pfleiderer, Beatrix. editor., Bibeau, Gilles. editor., SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	Texto biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	Wiesbaden : Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1991
Subjects:	Social sciences., Medicine., Medical ethics., Anthropology., Social Sciences., Theory of Medicine/Bioethics., Medicine/Public Health, general.,
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-87859-5
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