Knowledge, Power, and Practice: The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life: 36 (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520077857 ISBN 13: 9780520077850

Publisher: University of California Press, 1993

Synopsis

These original essays, which combine theoretical argument with empirical observation, constitute a state-of-the-art platform for future research in medical anthropology. Ranging in time and locale, the essays are based on research in historical and cultural settings. The contributors accept the notion that all knowledge is socially and culturally constructed and examine the contexts in which that knowledge is produced and practiced in medicine, psychiatry, epidemiology, and anthropology. Professionals in behavioral medicine, public health, and epidemiology as well as medical anthropologists will find their insights significant.

About this title

Synopsis:

These original essays, which combine theoretical argument with empirical observation, constitute a platform for future research in medical anthropology. Ranging in time and locale, the essays are based on research in historical and cultural settings. The contributors accept the notion that all knowledge is socially and culturally constructed and examine the contexts in which that knowledge is produced and practiced in medicine, psychiatry, epidemiology and anthropology.

About the Author:

Shirley Lindenbaum is Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York and author of Kuru Sorcery (1979). Margaret Lock is Professor of Medical Anthopology at McGill University and author of East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan (California, 1980).

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0520077857
• ISBN 13: 9780520077850
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 444
• Editor: Lindenbaum Shirley