Medicine, Rationality and Experience - An Anthropological Perspective (Paperback)

Medicine supposedly offers a scientific account of the human body and of illness, and it follows that scientific medicine treats all forms of folk medicine as little more than superstitious practices. Professor Good argues that this impoverished perspective neglects many facets of Western medical practice and obscures its kinship with healing in other traditions. Drawing on his own anthropological research in America and the Middle East, his analysis of illness and medicine explores the role of cultural factors in the experience of illness and the practice of medicine.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
Release date:	December 1993
First published:	1994
Authors:	Byron J. Good
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	262
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-42576-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
LSN:	0-521-42576-X
Barcode:	9780521425766

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