Knowledge, power, and practice : the anthropology of medicine and everyday life /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[1993]
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| Series: | Comparative studies of health systems and medical care ;
no. 36. |
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Table of Contents:
- Traditional birth attendants in rural North India : the social organization of childbearing / Roger Jeffery and Patricia M. Jeffery
- Analysis of a dialogue on risks in childbirth : clinicians, epidemiologists, and Inuit women / Patricia A. Kaufert and John O'Neil
- Accounting for amniocentesis / Rayna Rapp
- "Learning medicine" : the constructing of medical knowledge at Harvard Medical School / Byron J. Good and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good
- A description of how ideology shapes knowledge of a mental disorder (posttraumatic stress disorder) / Allan Young
- The shape of action : practice in public psychiatry / Lorna Amarasingham Rhodes
- Lay medical knowledge in an African context / Tola Olu Pearce
- Biomedical psychiatry as an object for a critical medical anthropology / Horacioa Fabrega, Jr.
- (cont.) Double standards of treatment evaluation / Gilbert Lewis
- Risk : anthropological and epidemiological narratives of prevention / Ronald Frankenberg
- Identity, disability, and schizophrenia : the problem of chronicity / Sue E. Estroff
- Social aspects of chagas disease / Roberto Briceñ-León
- The diseased heart of Africa : medicine, colonialism and the black body / Jean Comaroff
- The politics of mid-life and menopause : ideologies for the second sex on North America and Japan / Margaret Lock
- The biopolitics of postmodern bodies : determinations of self in immune system discourse / Donna Haraway.