Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture: An Exploration of the Borderland Between Anthropology, Medicine, and Psychiatry Volume 5
(Part of the Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care Series)
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From the Preface, by Arthur Kleinman: Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture presents a theoretical framework for studying the relationship between medicine, psychiatry, and culture. That framework is principally illustrated by materials gathered in field research in Taiwan and, to a lesser extent, from materials gathered in similar research in Boston. The reader will find this book contains a dialectical tension between two reciprocally related...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0520045114
ISBN13:9780520045118
Release Date:August 1981
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:448 Pages
Weight:1.31 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"
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