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744199
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b564148
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on behalf of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnomedizin ed. by Beatrix Pfleiderer and Gilles Bibeau.
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Anthropologies of medicine : : a colloquium on West European and North American perspectives\ on behalf of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnomedizin ed. by Beatrix Pfleiderer and Gilles Bibeau.
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Braunschweig : Vieweg, cop., 1991
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| Series Statement
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Curare : Zeitschrift für Ethnomedizin und transkulturelle Psychiatrie., Sonderband ;, 7/1991.
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275 p. : fig. ; 24 cm.
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3528078200
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: 9783528078201
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| Contents
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About the Origins of this Volume.- Section 1: Culture-Specific Psychosomatic Paradigms.- Are functional syndromes culture-bound?.- The Medical Anthropology of Viktor von Weizsacker in the Present Clinical Context of Heidelberg.- Ethnomedical Fundaments in the Work of Viktor von Weizsacker.- Phenomenology of the Body: The Subject-Object Problem in Psychosomatic Medicine and the Role of traditional Medical Systems herein.- Memory within the Body: Women's Narrative and Identity in a Southern Italian Village.- Section 2: Sociosomatics and Ethnicity.- The Symbolic and the Physiological: Epigastric Patients in Family Medicine in Flanders.- Nerves and Nostalgia: Greek-Canadian Immigrants and Medical Care in Quebec.- The Development and Change of Health Research among Migrant Workers in West-Germany: Ideologies and Practice between 1956 and 1986.- Section 3: Local Cultures of Biomedicine.- The Practice of Biomedicine and the Discourse on Hope: A Preliminary Investigation into the Culture of American Oncology.- Culture, Cancer, and Communication in Italy.- Images and Interpretations of Severe Illness: Ethnological Aspects of Dealing with Cancer.- Emil Kraepelin and the Origins of American Psychiatric Diagnosis.- Section 4: From Patients' Complaints to Cultural Narrative.- The Love-Lorn Consumptive: South Asian Ethnography and the Psychosomatic Paradigm.- Traditional European and Chinese Definitions of Illness and Medical Practice.- Section 5: Medical Systems and Cultural Change: An Analysis of Facts and Theories.- The Hierarchies of Medicines: A Contextual Analysis of Schismogenic Processes.- Cultural Constructivism: Sickness Histories and the Understanding of Ethnomedicines beyond Critical Medical Anthropologies.- Holistic Health and a Changing Western World View.- List of Contributors.
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Anthropologie médicale -- Congrès.
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ethnomédecine -- [congrès]
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ethnomédecine -- congrès.
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GN296.O534 1991
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Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnomedizin (Heidelberg). Colloquium
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Beatrix Pfleiderer
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Gilles Bibeau
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