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Anthropologies of Medicine

A Colloquium on West European and North American Perspectives

Editors:

  1. Beatrix Pfleiderer

    1. Institut für Ethnologie, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg 13, Germany

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  2. Gilles Bibeau

    1. Department of Anthropology, Départment d’ Anthropologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-6
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  2. About the Origins of this Volume

    1. About the Origins of this Volume

      • Beatrix Pfleiderer
      Pages 7-9

  3. Culture-Specific Psychosomatic Paradigms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Are Functional Syndromes Culture-Bound?

      • Thure von Uexküll
      Pages 13-22

    5. Phenomenology of the Body

      • Thomas Ots
      Pages 43-58

    6. Memory within the Body

      • Mariella Pandolfi
      Pages 59-65

  4. Sociosomatics and Ethnicity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
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    2. The Symbolic and the Physiological

      • René Devisch
      Pages 69-86

    3. Nerves and Nostalgia

      • Margaret Lock
      Pages 87-103

  5. Local Cultures of Biomedicine

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    2. The Practice of Biomedicine and the Discourse on Hope

      • Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good
      Pages 121-135

    3. Culture, Cancer, and Communication in Italy

      • Deborah R. Gordon
      Pages 137-156

  6. From Patients’ Complaints to Cultural Narrative

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Ethnologie, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg 13, Germany

    Beatrix Pfleiderer

  • Department of Anthropology, Départment d’ Anthropologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

    Gilles Bibeau

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Anthropologies of Medicine

  • Book Subtitle: A Colloquium on West European and North American Perspectives

  • Editors: Beatrix Pfleiderer, Gilles Bibeau

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-87859-5

  • Publisher: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-528-07820-1Published: 01 January 1991

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-322-87859-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 275

  • Topics: Anthropology, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Medicine/Public Health, general

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