Author: Publisher: IOS Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 10439
Book Description
Author: Publisher: IOS Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 10439
Book Description
Medicine, Rationality and Experience
Author: Byron J. GoodPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521425766
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Biomedicine is often thought to provide a scientific account of the human body and of illness. In this view, non-Western and folk medical systems are regarded as systems of 'belief' and subtly discounted. This is an impoverished perspective for understanding illness and healing across cultures, one that neglects many facets of Western medical practice and obscures its kinship with healing in other traditions. Drawing on his research in several American and Middle Eastern medical settings, in this 1993 book Professor Good develops a critical, anthropological account of medical knowledge and practice. He shows how physicians and healers enter and inhabit distinctive worlds of meaning and experience. He explores how stories or illness narratives are joined with bodily experience in shaping and responding to human suffering and argues that moral and aesthetic considerations are present in routine medical practice as in other forms of healing.
Culture, Diversity and Mental Health - Enhancing Clinical Practice
Author: Masood ZangenehPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030264378
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
This book discusses the importance of culture and diversity within society through multicultural, cross-cultural, and intercultural encounters while applying psychological effectiveness to manage core competencies. It carefully explains how influential the social environment is to an individual within a society. It seeks to directly affect mental health practitioners’ treatment within practices in accordance to specific ethno-cultural clients; and it seeks to encourage students and practitioners to practice acceptance of diverse groups and multiracial communities. Although understanding various cultural norms and accepting diversity is not always simple, the book promotes a global understanding through identifying cultural benefits within a multiracial, multi-ethnic society, while evoking culturally competent techniques for mental health practitioners.
Negotiating the Holistic Turn
Author: Judith FadlonPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791463161
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Examines the growing popularity of alternative medicine as a personal health care option.
Intimacies
Author: William R. JankowiakPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231134363
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Examines how different cultures rationalize the expression of passionate and comfort love and physical sex. --From publisher description.
Biomedical Entanglements
Author: Franziska A. HerbstPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 178533235X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Biomedical Entanglements is an ethnographic study of the Giri people of Papua New Guinea, focusing on the indigenous population’s interaction with modern medicine. In her fieldwork, Franziska A. Herbst follows the Giri people as they circulate within and around ethnographic sites that include a rural health center and an urban hospital. The study bridges medical anthropology and global health, exploring how the ‘biomedical’ is imbued with social meaning and how biomedicine affects Giri ways of life.
Papua New Guinea
Author: John ConnellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134938322
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Since 1975 the economy of Papua New Guinea has focused on mineral, rather than agricultural production as previously. This is the first book to look at these changes in a complex, rapidly evolving nation from an economic perspective.
Biomedicine in an Unstable Place
Author: Alice StreetPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822376660
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Biomedicine in an Unstable Place is the story of people's struggle to make biomedicine work in a public hospital in Papua New Guinea. It is a story encompassing the history of hospital infrastructures as sites of colonial and postcolonial governance, the simultaneous production of Papua New Guinea as a site of global medical research and public health, and people's encounters with urban institutions and biomedical technologies. In Papua New Guinea, a century of state building has weakened already inadequate colonial infrastructures, and people experience the hospital as a space of institutional, medical, and ontological instability. In the hospital's clinics, biomedical practitioners struggle amid severe resource shortages to make the diseased body visible and knowable to the clinical gaze. That struggle is entangled with attempts by doctors, nurses, and patients to make themselves visible to external others—to kin, clinical experts, global scientists, politicians, and international development workers—as socially recognizable and valuable persons. Here hospital infrastructures emerge as relational technologies that are fundamentally fragile but also offer crucial opportunities for making people visible and knowable in new, unpredictable, and powerful ways.
Biomedicine in an Unstable Place
Author: Alice StreetPublisher: Duke University Press Books
ISBN: 9780822357780
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Biomedicine in an Unstable Place is the story of people's struggle to make biomedicine work in a public hospital in Papua New Guinea. It is a story encompassing the history of hospital infrastructures as sites of colonial and postcolonial governance, the simultaneous production of Papua New Guinea as a site of global medical research and public health, and people's encounters with urban institutions and biomedical technologies. In Papua New Guinea, a century of state building has weakened already inadequate colonial infrastructures, and people experience the hospital as a space of institutional, medical, and ontological instability. In the hospital's clinics, biomedical practitioners struggle amid severe resource shortages to make the diseased body visible and knowable to the clinical gaze. That struggle is entangled with attempts by doctors, nurses, and patients to make themselves visible to external others—to kin, clinical experts, global scientists, politicians, and international development workers—as socially recognizable and valuable persons. Here hospital infrastructures emerge as relational technologies that are fundamentally fragile but also offer crucial opportunities for making people visible and knowable in new, unpredictable, and powerful ways.
Science of Pacific Island Peoples: Fauna, flora, food and medicine
Author: R. J. MorrisonPublisher: [email protected]
ISBN: 9789820201064
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
