On knowing and not knowing in the anthropology of medicine
On knowing and not knowing in the anthropology of medicine [electronic resource] /
edited by Roland Littlewood.
- Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, c2007.
- xvii, 225 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The importance of knowing about not knowing / Murray Last -- Coconuts and syphilis : an essay in overinterpretation / Roland Littlewood -- On "medical system" and questions in fieldwork / Gilbert Lewis -- Explanatory models and oversystematization in medical anthropology / Simon Dein -- The ambivalence of integrative medicine / Guido Giarelli -- Not knowing about defecation / Sjaak van der Geest -- Christianity, tradition, AIDS, and pornography : knowing sex in western Kenya / P. Wenzel Geissler and Ruth J. Prince -- Feeling and borderlinking in Yaka healing arts / Ren Devisch -- On knowing and not knowing in Latvian psychiatric consultations / Vieda Skultans -- Farewell to fieldwork? : constraints in anthropological research in violent situations / Els van Dongen -- Neutralizing the young : the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and youth / Pamela Reynolds -- In touch without touching : Islam and healing / David Parkin.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Medical anthropology.
Traditional medicine--Cross-cultural studies.
Electronic books.
GN296 / .O5 2007eb
306.4/61
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The importance of knowing about not knowing / Murray Last -- Coconuts and syphilis : an essay in overinterpretation / Roland Littlewood -- On "medical system" and questions in fieldwork / Gilbert Lewis -- Explanatory models and oversystematization in medical anthropology / Simon Dein -- The ambivalence of integrative medicine / Guido Giarelli -- Not knowing about defecation / Sjaak van der Geest -- Christianity, tradition, AIDS, and pornography : knowing sex in western Kenya / P. Wenzel Geissler and Ruth J. Prince -- Feeling and borderlinking in Yaka healing arts / Ren Devisch -- On knowing and not knowing in Latvian psychiatric consultations / Vieda Skultans -- Farewell to fieldwork? : constraints in anthropological research in violent situations / Els van Dongen -- Neutralizing the young : the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and youth / Pamela Reynolds -- In touch without touching : Islam and healing / David Parkin.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Medical anthropology.
Traditional medicine--Cross-cultural studies.
Electronic books.
GN296 / .O5 2007eb
306.4/61