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