Anthropologies of medicine

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Vieweg+Teubner, Wiesbaden

1991

276 Pages

ISBN 978-3-528-07820-1

Anthropologies of medicine

a colloquium on West European and North American perspectives

Edited by

Beatrix Pfleiderer, Gilles Bibeau

Publication details

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-322-87859-5

Full citation:

Pfleiderer, B. , Bibeau, G. (eds) (1991). Anthropologies of medicine: a colloquium on West European and North American perspectives, Vieweg+Teubner, Wiesbaden.

Table of Contents

About the origins of this volume

Pfleiderer Beatrix

7-9

Are functional syndromes culture-bound?

von Uexküll Thure

13-22

The medical anthropology of Viktor Von Weizsäcker in the present clinical context in heidelberg

Hahn Peter

23-35

Ethnomedical fundaments in the work of Viktor Von Weizsäcker

Jacob Wolfgang

37-42

Phenomenology of the body

Ots Thomas

43-58

Memory within the body

Pandolfi Mariella

59-65

The symbolic and the physiological

Devisch René

69-86

Nerves and nostalgia

Lock Margaret

87-103

The development and change of health research among migrant workers in West-Germany

Pfleiderer Beatrix

105-118

The practice of biomedicine and the discourse on hope

DelVecchio Good Mary-Jo

121-135

Culture, cancer, and communication in Italy

Gordon Deborah R.

137-156

Images and interpretations of severe illness

Dornheim Jutta

157-173

Emil Kraepelin and the origins of American psychiatric diagnosis

Young Allan

175-181

The love-lorn consumptive

Zimmermann Francis

185-195

Traditional European and chinese definitions of illness and medical practice

Unschuld Paul U.

197-204

The hierarchies of medicines

Bibeau Gilles

207-219

Cultural constructivism

Gaines Atwood D.

221-258

Holistic health and a changing Western world view

MacCormack Carol P.

259-273

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