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On Knowing and Not Knowing in the Anthropology of Medicine (Paperback)
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On Knowing and Not Knowing in the Anthropology of Medicine (Paperback)
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Social scientific studies of medicine typically assume that systems
of medical knowledge are uniform and consistent. But while
anthropologists have long rejected the notion that cultures are
discrete, bounded, and rule-drive entities, medical anthropology
has been slower to develop alternative approaches to understanding
cultures of health. This provocative volume considers the
theoretical, methodological, and ethnographic implications of the
fact that medical knowledge is frequently dynamic, incoherent, and
contradictory, and that and our understanding of it is necessarily
incomplete and partial. In diverse settings from indigenous
cultures to Western medical industries, contributors consider such
issues as how to define the boundaries of "medical" knowledge
versus other kinds of knowledge; how to understand overlapping and
shifting medical discourses; the medical profession's need for
anthropologists to produce "explanatory models"; the limits of the
Western scientific method and the potential for methodological
pluralism; constraints on fieldwork including violence and
structural factors limiting access; and the subjectivity and
interests of the researcher. On Knowing and Not Knowing in the
Anthropology of Medicine will stimulate innovative thinking and
productive debate for practitioners, researchers, and students in
the social science of health and medicine.
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