Biomedicine is often thought to provide a scientific account of the
human body and of illness. In this view, non-Western and folk
medical systems are regarded as systems of 'belief' and subtly
discounted. This is an impoverished perspective for understanding
illness and healing across cultures, one that neglects many facets
of Western medical practice and obscures its kinship with healing
in other traditions. Drawing on his research in several American
and Middle Eastern medical settings, in this 1993 book Professor
Good develops a critical, anthropological account of medical
knowledge and practice. He shows how physicians and healers enter
and inhabit distinctive worlds of meaning and experience. He
explores how stories or illness narratives are joined with bodily
experience in shaping and responding to human suffering and argues
that moral and aesthetic considerations are present in routine
medical practice as in other forms of healing.
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