Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture An Exploration of the Borderland Between Anthropology, Medicine, and Psychiatry

Name: Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture An Exploration of the Borderland Between Anthropology, Medicine, and Psychiatry
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ISBN: 9780520045118

ISBN-10: 0520045114

ISBN-13: 9780520045118

Edition: 1980

Authors: Arthur Kleinman

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List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 1980
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/17/1981
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Arthur Kleinmanis Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard University;Yunxiang Yanis a Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles;Jing Junis a Professor at Tsinghua University (Beijing);Sing Leeis a Professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong;Everett Zhangis a Professor at Princeton University;Pan Tianshuis a Professor at Fudan University (Shanghai);Wu FeiandGuo Jinhuaare Professors at Peking University (Beijing).

List of Figures Preface 1. Orientations 1: The Problem, the Setting, and the Approach 2. Orientations 2: Culture, Health Care Systems, and Clinical Reality 3. Orientations 3: Core Clinical Functions and Explanatory Models 4. The Cultural Construction of Illness Experience and Behavior, 1: Affects and Symptoms in Chinese Culture 5. The Cultural Construction of Illness Experience and Behavior, 2: A Model of Somatization of Dysphoric Affects and Affective Disorders 6. Family-Based Popular Health Care 7. Patients and Healers: Transactions Between Explanatory Models and Clinical Realities. Part 1. Sacred Folk Healer-Client Relationships 8. Patients and Healers: Transactions Between Explanatory…