Knowledge, Power, and Practice : The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life / Lindenbaum/Lock; ed. by Shirley Lindenbaum, Margaret M. Lock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lindenbaum/Lock, Author.

Contributor:

Lindenbaum, Shirley, Editor.

Lock, Margaret M., Editor.

Series:

Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (448 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [1994]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Part One The Cultural Construction of Childbirth

Introduction to Part One

1 Traditional Birth Attendants in Rural North India: The Social Organization of Childbearing

2 Analysis of a Dialogue on Risks in Childbirth: Clinicians, Epidemiologists, and Inuit Women

3 Accounting for Amniocentesis

Part Two The Production of Medical Knowledge

Introduction to Part Two

4 "Learning Medicine": The Constructing of Medical Knowledge at Harvard Medical School

5 A Description of How Ideology Shapes Knowledge of a Mental Disorder (Posttraumatic Stress Disorder)

6 The Shape of Action: Practice in Public Psychiatry

Part Three Contested Knowledge and Modes of Understanding

Introduction to Part Three

7 Lay Medical Knowledge in an African Context

8 Biomedical Psychiatry as an Object for a Critical Medical Anthropology

9 Double Standards of Treatment Evaluation

10 Risk: Anthropological and Epidemiological Narratives of Prevention

Part Four Constructing the Illness Experience

Introduction to Part Four

11 Identity, Disability, and Schizophrenia: The Problem of Chronicity

12 Social Aspects of Chagas Disease

Part Five Body PoliticsPast and Present

Introduction to Part Five

13 The Diseased Heart of Africa: Medicine, Colonialism, and the Black Body

14 The Politics of Mid-Life and Menopause: Ideologies for the Second Sex in North America and Japan

15 The Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies: Determinations of Self in Immune System Discourse

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Jan 2024)

ISBN:

0-520-35481-8

OCLC:

1419789092