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First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Author:   Mark Nichter
Publisher:   Gordon & Breach Science Publishers SA
Imprint:   Gordon & Breach Science Publishers SA
Volume:   Vol 2
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9782881245305

ISBN 10:   2881245307
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   01 January 1992
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"The Efficacy of Ethnomedicine: Research Methods in Trouble, Robert Anderson; An Epidemiological Description of a Folk Illness: A Study of Empacho in Guatemala, Susan C. Weller, Trenton K. Ruebush II and Robert E. Klein; Discourse, Dano and Healing in North Coastal Peru, Bonnie Glass-Coffin; Guardian Angels and Dirty Spirits: The Moral Basis of Healing Power in Rural Haiti, Paul E. Brodwin; Deciding How to Decide: Possession-Mediumship in Jalari Divination, Charles W. Nuckolls; ""Unclean Deeds"": Menstrual Taboos and Binding ""Ties"" in Rural Jamaica, E.J. Sobo; The Harp That Plays by Itself, Christopher C. Taylor; The Production of Self and Body in Sherpa-Tibetan Society, Vincanne Adams; Malay Medicine, Malay Person, Carol Laderrnan; An Ayurvedic Theory of Cancer, Margaret Trawick; Ethnomedicine: Diverse Trends, Common Linkages, Mark Nichter."

Reviews

A stimulating, timely, and insightful collection of essays in which skillful use of diverse research strategies contribute ot a reappraisal and revitalization of the study of ethnomedicine. The fluid, contested nature of medical knowledge is meticulously documented, revealing a close articulation between individual suffering and the social and political order--this is medical anthropology at its best--a major contribution to the field. <br>-Margaret Lock of McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada <br> The reader of this volume will see how a decade of new work has remade ethnomedicine into one of the livlier and more promising domains of anthorpology. Niochter and his collaborators are to be congratulated for a salient contribution. Nichter's own encompassing redefinition of the relationship of ethnomedicine to medical anthropology and his critical comments that introduce each of the chapters on the various subdomains of ethnomedicine are bound to provode discussion and response over the years to come. A useful and challenging achievement. <br>-Arthur Kleinman, MD of Harvard Medical School <br>

A stimulating, timely, and insightful collection of essays in which skillful use of diverse research strategies contribute ot a reappraisal and revitalization of the study of ethnomedicine. The fluid, contested nature of medical knowledge is meticulously documented, revealing a close articulation between individual suffering and the social and political order--this is medical anthropology at its best--a major contribution to the field. -Margaret Lock of McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada The reader of this volume will see how a decade of new work has remade ethnomedicine into one of the livlier and more promising domains of anthorpology. Niochter and his collaborators are to be congratulated for a salient contribution. Nichter's own encompassing redefinition of the relationship of ethnomedicine to medical anthropology and his critical comments that introduce each of the chapters on the various subdomains of ethnomedicine are bound to provode discussion and response over the years to come. A useful and challenging achievement. -Arthur Kleinman, MD of Harvard Medical School

A stimulating, timely, and insightful collection of essays in which skillful use of diverse research strategies contribute ot a reappraisal and revitalization of the study of ethnomedicine. The fluid, contested nature of medical knowledge is meticulously documented, revealing a close articulation between individual suffering and the social and political order--this is medical anthropology at its best--a major contribution to the field. -Margaret Lock of McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada The reader of this volume will see how a decade of new work has remade ethnomedicine into one of the livlier and more promising domains of anthorpology. Niochter and his collaborators are to be congratulated for a salient contribution. Nichter's own encompassing redefinition of the relationship of ethnomedicine to medical anthropology and his critical comments that introduce each of the chapters on the various subdomains of ethnomedicine are bound to provode discussion and response over the years to come. A useful and challenging achievement. -Arthur Kleinman, MD of Harvard Medical School

""A stimulating, timely, and insightful collection of essays in which skillful use of diverse research strategies contribute ot a reappraisal and revitalization of the study of ethnomedicine. The fluid, contested nature of medical knowledge is meticulously documented, revealing a close articulation between individual suffering and the social and political order-this is medical anthropology at its best-a major contribution to the field."" -- Margaret Lock of McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada ""The reader of this volume will see how a decade of new work has remade ethnomedicine into one of the livlier and more promising domains of anthorpology. Niochter and his collaborators are to be congratulated for a salient contribution. Nichter's own encompassing redefinition of the relationship of ethnomedicine to medical anthropology and his critical comments that introduce each of the chapters on the various subdomains of ethnomedicine are bound to provode discussion and response over the years to come. A useful and challenging achievement."" -- Arthur Kleinman, MD of Harvard Medical School

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