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Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture

An Exploration of the Borderland between Anthropology, Medicine, and Psychiatry

Arthur Kleinman (Author)

Available worldwide

Paperback, 448 pages
ISBN: 9780520045118
August 1981
$33.95, £23.95

List of Figures
Preface

1. Orientations 1: The Problem, the Setting, and the Approach
2. Orientations 2: Culture, Health Care Systems, and Clinical Reality
3. Orientations 3: Core Clinical Functions and Explanatory Models
4. The Cultural Construction of Illness Experience and Behavior, 1: Affects and Symptoms in Chinese Culture
5. The Cultural Construction of Illness Experience and Behavior, 2: A Model of Somatization of Dysphoric Affects and Affective Disorders
6. Family-Based Popular Health Care
7. Patients and Healers: Transactions Between Explanatory Models and Clinical Realities. Part 1. Sacred Folk Healer-Client Relationships
8. Patients and Healers: Transactions Between Explanatory Models and Clinical Realities. Part 2: Professional Practitioner-Patient and Family-Patient Relationships
9. The Healing Process
10. Epilogue: Implications

Glossary
Bibliography
Index

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