Sickness and healing : an anthropological perspective

Hahn, Robert A. 1945- (Author).

Summary: The ways in which people respond to sickness differ greatly from society to society. In this book anthropologist and epidemiologist Robert A. Hahn examines how Western and non-Western cultures influence the definition, experience, and treatment of sickness.

Record details

ISBN: 0300060882
ISBN: 9780300060881
ISBN: 9780300068719
ISBN: 0300068719
Physical Description: print
viii, 327 pages ; 25 cm
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1995.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-321) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. The Universe of Sickness -- 2. Culture-bound Syndromes Unbound -- 3. Three Theories of Sickness and Healing -- 4. The Role of Society and Culture in Sickness and Healing -- 5. Anthropology and Epidemiology: One Logic or Two? -- 6. Biomedicine as a Cultural System -- 7. A World of Internal Medicine: Portrait of an Internist -- 8. Divisions of Labor: Obstetrician, Woman, and Society in Williams Obstetrics, 1903-1989 -- 9. Between Two Worlds: Physicians as Patients -- 10. From Medical Anthropology to Anthropological Medicine.