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Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture: An Exploration of the Borderland between Anthropology, Medicine, and Psychiatry

Kleinman, Arthur·1980·University of California Press eBooks

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List of Figures Preface 1. Orientations 1: The Problem, the Setting, and the Approach 2. Orientations 2: Culture, Health Care Systems, and Clinical Reality 3. Orientations 3: Core Clinical Functions and Explanatory Models 4. The Cultural Construction of Illness Experience and Behavior, 1: Affects and Symptoms in Chinese Culture 5. The Cultural Construction of Illness Experience and Behavior, 2: A Model of Somatization of Dysphoric Affects and Affective Disorders 6. Family-Based Popular Health Care 7. Patients and Healers: Transactions Between Explanatory Models and Clinical Realities. Part 1. Sacred Folk Healer-Client Relationships 8. Patients and Healers: Transactions Between Explanatory Models and Clinical Realities. Part 2: Professional Practitioner-Patient and Family-Patient Relationships 9. The Healing Process 10. Epilogue: Implications Glossary Bibliography Index

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  • Anthropological findings suggest a general viewpoint on medicine in culture that is useful in comparing early Chinese therapeutic approaches with each other and with other varieties of medicine.

    “Anthropological findings suggest a general viewpoint on medicine in culture that I have found useful in comparing early Chinese therapeutic approaches with each other and with other varieties of medicine.”

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  • A disease can be explained as the result of psychological or social relationships, not just a chance occurrence, and its treatment exists under specific cultural contexts.

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Kleinman, A.
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Kleinman, Arthur
Venue
University of California Press eBooks
Published
1980-12-31
OpenAlex
W2054990837
Cited by
4,945
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Citations by year
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208.25
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en
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closed
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University of California Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Cultural Competency in Health Care
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Medicine, History, and Philosophy
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
Keywords
Chinese culture, illness experience, somatization, mood disorders, folk healers, explanatory models, healing, clinical reality

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