On knowing and not knowing in the anthropology of medicine [electronic resource] / edited by Roland Littlewood.
Material type: TextPublication details: Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, c2007Description: xvii, 225 p. : illSubject(s): Medical anthropology | Traditional medicine -- Cross-cultural studiesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 306.4/61 LOC classification: GN296 | .O5 2007Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes 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.
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