Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture
An Exploration of the Borderland between Anthropology, Medicine, and Psychiatry
Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 448
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- Serienavn: Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical
- EAN: 9780520045118
- Utgivelsesår: 1981
- Bidragsyter: Kleinman, Arthur
399,-
Presents a framework for studying the relationship between medicine, psychiatry, and culture. This book contains a dialectical tension between two reciprocally related orientations: it is both a cross-cultural perspective on the components of clinical care and a clinical perspective on anthropological studies of medicine and psychiatry.