Knowledge, Power, and Practice The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life

Name: Knowledge, Power, and Practice The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life
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ISBN: 9780520077850

ISBN-10: 0520077857

ISBN-13: 9780520077850

Edition: 1994

Authors: Shirley Lindenbaum, Margaret M. Lock

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These original essays, which combine theoretical argument with empirical observation, constitute a state-of-the-art platform for future research in medical anthropology. Ranging in time and locale, the essays are based on research in historical and cultural settings. The contributors accept the notion that all knowledge is socially and culturally constructed and examine the contexts in which that knowledge is produced and practiced in medicine, psychiatry, epidemiology, and anthropology. Professionals in behavioral medicine, public health, and epidemiology as well as medical anthropologists will find their insights significant.

Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/4/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Shirley Lindenbaum is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the CUNY-Graduate Center, New York.



Preface



The Cultural Construction of Childbirth



Traditional Birth Attendants in Rural North India: The Social Organization of Childbearing




Analysis of a Dialogue on Risks in Childbirth: Clinicians, Epidemiologists, and Inuit Women




Accounting for Amniocentesis




The Production of Medical Knowledge



"Learning Medicine": The Constructing of Medical Knowledge at Harvard Medical School




A Description of How Ideology Shapes Knowledge of a Mental Disorder (Posttraumatic Stress Disorder)




The Shape of Action: Practice in Public Psychiatry




Contested Knowledge and Modes of Understanding



Lay Medical Knowledge in an African Context




Biomedical Psychiatry as an Object for a Critical Medical Anthropology




Double Standards of Treatment Evaluation




Risk: Anthropological and Epidemiological Narratives of Prevention




Constructing the Illness Experience



Identity, Disability, and Schizophrenia: The Problem of Chronicity




Social Aspects of Chagas Disease




Body Politics - Past and Present



The Diseased Heart of Africa: Medicine, Colonialism, and the Black Body




The Politics of Mid-Life and Menopause: Ideologies for the Second Sex in North America and Japan




The Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies: Determinations of Self in Immune System Discourse



Contributors


Index