Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan An Anthropological View

Name: Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan An Anthropological View
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ISBN: 9780521277860

ISBN-10: 0521277868

ISBN-13: 9780521277860

Edition: 1984

Authors: Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney

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Health care in contemporary Japan - a modern industrial state with high technology, but a distinctly non-Western cultural tradition - operates on several different levels. In this book Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney provides a detailed and historically informed account of the cultural practices and cultural meaning of health care in urban Japan. In contrast to most ethnomedical studies, this book pays careful attention to everyday hygienic practices and beliefs, as well as presenting a comprehensive picture of formalized medicine, health care aspects of Japanese religions, and biomedicine. These different systems compete with one another at some levels, but are complementary in providing health care…

Book details

List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 1984
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/29/1984
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.02" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Preface


Preface to the second edition


Preface to the third edition


Dictionary of German synonyms


Appendix


List of words treated


German word list