Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Foreword by ANTHONY T. CARTER
- Preface
- 1 Medical anthropology and the problem of belief
- 2 Illness representations in medical anthropology: a reading of the field
- 3 How medicine constructs its objects
- 4 Semiotics and the study of medical reality
- 5 The body, illness experience, and the lifeworld: a phenomenological account of chronic pain
- 6 The narrative representation of illness
- 7 Aesthetics, rationality, and medical anthropology
- Notes
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Foreword by ANTHONY T. CARTER
- Preface
- 1 Medical anthropology and the problem of belief
- 2 Illness representations in medical anthropology: a reading of the field
- 3 How medicine constructs its objects
- 4 Semiotics and the study of medical reality
- 5 The body, illness experience, and the lifeworld: a phenomenological account of chronic pain
- 6 The narrative representation of illness
- 7 Aesthetics, rationality, and medical anthropology
- Notes
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
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- Chapter
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- Medicine, Rationality and ExperienceAn Anthropological Perspective, pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993