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Author:   Beatrix Pfleiderer ,  Gilles Bibeau
Publisher:   Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH
Imprint:   Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH
Edition:   1991 ed.
Volume:   7/1991
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.488kg
ISBN:  

9783528078201

ISBN 10:   3528078200
Pages:   275
Publication Date:   01 January 1991
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

About the Origins of this Volume.- Section 1: Culture-Specific Psychosomatic Paradigms.- Are functional syndromes culture-bound?.- The Medical Anthropology of Viktor von Weizsäcker in the Present Clinical Context of Heidelberg.- Ethnomedical Fundaments in the Work of Viktor von Weizsäcker.- Phenomenology of the Body: The Subject-Object Problem in Psychosomatic Medicine and the Role of traditional Medical Systems herein.- Memory within the Body: Women’s Narrative and Identity in a Southern Italian Village.- Section 2: Sociosomatics and Ethnicity.- The Symbolic and the Physiological: Epigastric Patients in Family Medicine in Flanders.- Nerves and Nostalgia: Greek-Canadian Immigrants and Medical Care in Québec.- The Development and Change of Health Research among Migrant Workers in West-Germany: Ideologies and Practice between 1956 and 1986.- Section 3: Local Cultures of Biomedicine.- The Practice of Biomedicine and the Discourse on Hope: A Preliminary Investigation into the Culture of American Oncology.- Culture, Cancer, and Communication in Italy.- Images and Interpretations of Severe Illness: Ethnological Aspects of Dealing with Cancer.- Emil Kraepelin and the Origins of American Psychiatric Diagnosis.- Section 4: From Patients’ Complaints to Cultural Narrative.- The Love-Lorn Consumptive: South Asian Ethnography and the Psychosomatic Paradigm.- Traditional European and Chinese Definitions of Illness and Medical Practice.- Section 5: Medical Systems and Cultural Change: An Analysis of Facts and Theories.- The Hierarchies of Medicines: A Contextual Analysis of Schismogenic Processes.- Cultural Constructivism: Sickness Histories and the Understanding of Ethnomedicines beyond Critical Medical Anthropologies.- Holistic Health and a Changing Western World View.- Listof Contributors.

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