Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture (eBook)

An Exploration of the Borderland between Anthropology, Medicine, and Psychiatry

Arthur Kleinman (Autor)

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2023
448 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-34084-8 (ISBN)

Infos

From the Preface, by Arthur Kleinman:Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture presents a theoretical framework for studying the relationship between medicine, psychiatry, and culture. That framework is principally illustrated by materials gathered in field research in Taiwan and, to a lesser extent, from materials gathered in similar research in Boston. The reader will find this book contains a dialectical tension between two reciprocally related orientations: it is both a cross-cultural (largely anthropological) perspective on the essential components of clinical care and a clinical perspective on anthropological studies of medicine and psychiatry. That dialectic is embodied in my own academic training and professional life, so that this book is a personal statement. I am a psychiatrist trained in anthropology. I have worked in library, field, and clinic on problems concerning medicine and psychiatry in Chinese culture. I teach cross-cultural psychiatry and medical anthropology, but I also practice and teach consultation psychiatry and take a clinical approach to my major cross-cultural teaching and research involvements. The theoretical framework elaborated in this book has been applied to all of those areas; in turn, they are used to illustrate the theory. Both the theory and its application embody the same dialectic. The purpose of this book is to advance both poles of that dialectic: to demonstrate the critical role of social science (especially anthropology and cross-cultural studies) in clinical medicine and psychiatry and to encourage study of clinical problems by anthropologists and other investigators involved in cross-cultural research.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.4.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care
• Reihe/Serie: Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: academic training • Anthropological Studies • Anthropology • Chinese Culture • Clinical Care • clinical interviews • clinical perspective • consultation psychiatry • Cross cultural • cross cultural psychiatry • cross cultural teaching • Culture • East Asia • ethnography • field research • Health • Healthcare • health justice • Health Studies • history of medicine • Medical • Medical Anthropology • Medical History • Medicine • Mental Health • mental health project • Psychiatry • Psychology • social culture • Social Science • Taiwan • theoretical framework
• ISBN-10: 0-520-34084-1 / 0520340841
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-34084-8 / 9780520340848