The taste for knowledge : medical anthropology facing medical realities / edited by Sylvie Fainzang, Hans Einar Hem, Mette Bech Risr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fainzang, Sylvie, 1954-

Hem, Hans Einar.

Risr, Mette Bech.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical anthropology--Methodology.

Medical anthropology.

Medical anthropology--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Taste for Knowledge: Medical anthropology facing medical realities demonstrates how medical anthropology is becoming increasingly important in the fields of medical research and public health.The taste for knowledge is precisely what readers of this book will come to share with the authors, who examine some of the major issues in medical anthropology today. In this volume, a group of international researchers reflect, for example, on the way anthropology faces and deals with interdisciplinarity in its encounter with medicine and doctors; the new medical realities and patient strategies tha

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Colophon; Contents; Preface; Sylvie Fainzang · Hans Einar Hem · Mette Bech Risør; Introduction; This book; Part I: Medical anthropology as a collaborating science; Power relations; Research strategies; Part II: Medical realities and patient strategies; Patient strategies and the structure of healthcare systems; Chronic illness; Notes; Bibliography; PART IMedical anthropology as a collaborating science; Josep M. Comelles; Chapter I.; Should physicians and psychiatrists also be ethnographers? Toward a future agenda for medical anthropology in Europe1

Medical anthropology in the 21st CenturyPurity and impurity; Divergences and convergences; A new job market; Notes; Bibliography; Sylvie Fainzang; Chapter II.; Anthropology and biomedicine: a dangerous liaison? Conditions for a partnership; Developing research in the bio-medical milieu; Discussion; What collaborating means ?; Notes; Bibliography; Rikke Sand Andersen; Chapter III.; Anthropological perspectives ... on the biomedically defined problem of 'patient delay'; Introduction; Biomedically informed patient delay studies; 'Patient delay' from an anthropological perspective; John; Winnie

Interpreting bodily sensationsDefining proper conduct; Concluding remarks; Bibliography; Hans Einar Hem; Chapter IV.; Anthropology and Health Promotion; Anthropology as an academic discipline; Health Promotion; The theoretical and practical approach to Health Promotion; What is in it for us anthropologists?; What is in it for Health Promotion: What can medical anthropology offer?; What is health?; Comparing health systems; The welfare state; The ethnography of settings; Notes; Bibliography; Anne-Lise Middelthon, Kåre Moen and Arne T. Høstmark; Chapter V.; The silent life of good fatty tissue

The 'trigger' eventBroadening the investigation; First avenue of inquiry: the ongoing ethnographic research project; Second avenue of inquiry: medical discourses; Classification of Overweight and Obesity by BMI, Waist Circumference and Associated Disease Risks; Discussion; Notes; Bibliography; Sjaak van der Geest; Chapter VI.; Patients as co-researchers?Views and experiences in Dutch medical anthropology; Introduction; Rise of patient consciousness; Medical anthropology; Discussions and experiments in The Netherlands; Medical anthropological silence; Conclusion: Uneasy bedfellows; Notes

BibliographySylvie Fortin; Chapter VII.; Anthropology within the space of the clinic: Identity, politics and methods; Introduction; Context; The space of the clinic; Objects and methods: Attuning anthropological objects and methods to the current hospital and research contexts; A few irritants; Anthropology as a site of negotiations; Contemporary anthropology: A diversity of approaches and perspectives; At the crossroads of applied and fundamental research; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; PART IIMedical realities and patient strategies; Mette Bech Risør; Chapter VIII.

Healing and recovery as a social process ... among patients with medically unexplained symptoms (MUS)

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9788779344419

8779344410

OCLC:

812254058