The Meaning of illness
Subtitle: anthropology, history, and sociology
By: edited by Marc Auge and Claudine Herzlich ; translated from the French by Katherine J. Durnin ... [et al.]
Contributors: Auge, Marc; Herzlich, Claudine
Series: Social orders -- v. 5
Publisher: Harwood Academic Publishers
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Australia; United States
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Social medicine; Diseases -- Social aspects; Medical anthropology
Work titles: Sens du mal. English
Notes: Translation of: Le sens du mal

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Part I. Bodily ailments, lineage language. 1. Biological order, social order; illness, a primary form of event / M. Auge. 2. The need for meaning, the explanantion of ill fortune: the Senufo / N. Sindzingre. 3. Sterility, aridity, drought: some invariants of symbolic thought / F. Heritier. 4. History of diseases, history and disease: Africa / E. M'Bokolo; title: Part II. From the right to illness to the duty to be healthy: the industrial society. 5. Modern medicine and the quest for meaning: illness as a social signifier / C. Herzlich. 6. The social meanings of health: Paris, the Essonne and the Herault / J. Pierret. 7. From healing to salvation: the neo-rural apocalyptic communities in France / D. Leger