Contributor
Romanucci-Ross, Lola.
Edition Statement:3rd ed.
Imprint:Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 1997.
Description400 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Preface: The cultural context of medicine and the biohuman paradigm -- PART I. MEDICAL SYSTEMS AND THE USES OF CHOICE: Creativity in illness: methodological linkages to the logic and language of science in folk pursuit of health in central Italy / Lola Romanucci-Ross -- Aztec and European medicine in the New World, 1521-1600 / Clara Sue Kidwell -- Phantoms and physicians: social change through medical pluralism / Libbet Crandon-Malamud -- PART II. EMPIRICAL ANALYSES OF NON-WESTERN MEDICAL PRACTICES AND MEDICAL ECOLOGY: Poisoned apples and honeysuckles: the medicinal plants of native America / Daniel E. Moerman -- Herbal and symbolic forms of treatment in the medicine of the lowland Mixe (Oaxaca, Mexico) / Michael Heinrich -- The evolution of human nutrition / Barry Bogin -- Zoonoses anad the origin of Old and New World viral diseases: new perspectives / Linda M. Van Blerkom -- Malaria, medicine, and meals: a biobehavioral perspective / Nina L. Etkin, Paul J. Ross -- PART III. EMBODIED MIND: METAPHORS OF PAIN, PLACEBO, AND SYMBOLIC HEALING: The impassioned knowledge of the Shaman / Lola Romanucci-Ross -- Anarchy, abjection, and absurdity: a case of metaphoric medicine among the Tabwa of Zaire / Allen F. Roberts -- Physiology and symbols: the anthropological implications of the placebo effect / Daniel E Moerman -- Narratives of chronic pain / Robert Kugelmann -- The effect of ethnicity on prescriptions for patient controlled analgesia for post-operative pain / Bernardo Ng, Joel E. Dimsdale, Jens D. Rollnik, Harvey Shapiro -- PART IV. MODERN MEDICAL INQUIRY AND CULTURE CHANGE: Stress and its management: the cultural construction of an illness and its treatment / Robert Kugelmann -- Science of the mind in context of a culture / Laurence R. Tancredi -- The " new psychiatry": from ideology to cultural error / Lola Romanucci-Ross -- The aging: legal and ethical personhood in culture change / Laurence R. Tancredi, Lola Romanucci-Ross -- The extraneous factor in western medicine / Lola Romanucci-Ross, Daniel E. Moerman -- " Medical anthropology": convergence of mind and experience in the anthropological imagination / Lola Romanucci-Ross, Daniel E. Moerman, Laurence R. Tancredi.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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