On knowing and not knowing in the anthropology of medicine
By: edited by Roland Littlewood.
Contributors: Littlewood, Roland.
Publisher: Left Coast Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9781598742756; 9781598742749
Subjects: Medical anthropology; Traditional medicine -- Cross-cultural studies
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The importance of knowing about not knowing / Murray Last; title: Coconuts and syphilis : an essay in overinterpretation / Roland Littlewood; title: On "medical system" and questions in fieldwork / Gilbert Lewis; title: Explanatory models and oversystematization in medical anthropology / Simon Dein; title: The ambivalence of integrative medicine / Guido Giarelli; title: Not knowing about defecation / Sjaak van der Geest; title: Christianity, tradition, AIDS, and pornography : knowing sex in western Kenya / P. Wenzel Geissler and Ruth J. Prince; title: Feeling and borderlinking in Yaka healing arts / Ren Devisch; title: On knowing and not knowing in Latvian psychiatric consultations / Vieda Skultans; title: Farewell to fieldwork? : constraints in anthropological research in violent situations / Els van Dongen; title: Neutralizing the young : the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and youth / Pamela Reynolds; title: In touch without touching : Islam and healing / David Parkin.