LEADER 03347nam  2200613 a 450 
001 9910822253303321
005 20200520144314.0
010   $a1-315-42331-6
010   $a1-315-42332-4
010   $a1-315-42333-2
010   $a1-59874-778-9
024 7 $a10.4324/9781315423333 
035   $a(CKB)2550000000017921
035   $a(EBL)677814
035   $a(OCoLC)645641517
035   $a(SSID)ssj0000486272
035   $a(PQKBManifestationID)11929855
035   $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000486272
035   $a(PQKBWorkID)10430143
035   $a(PQKB)11146257
035   $a(MiAaPQ)EBC677814
035   $a(Au-PeEL)EBL677814
035   $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10386152
035   $a(OCoLC)956466518
035   $a(EXLCZ)992550000000017921
100   $a20061023d2007      uy         0
101 0 $aeng
135   $aurcn|||||||||
181   $ctxt
182   $cc
183   $acr
200 00$aOn knowing and not knowing in the anthropology of medicine /$fedited by Roland Littlewood
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aWalnut Creek, CA $cLeft Coast Press$dc2007
215   $a1 online resource (246 p.)
300   $aFirst published 2007 by Left Coast Press, Inc.
311   $a1-59874-275-2 
311   $a1-59874-274-4 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aThe importance of knowing about not knowing / Murray Last -- Coconuts and syphilis : an essay in overinterpretation / Roland Littlewood -- On "medical system" and questions in fieldwork / Gilbert Lewis -- Explanatory models and oversystematization in medical anthropology / Simon Dein -- The ambivalence of integrative medicine / Guido Giarelli -- Not knowing about defecation / Sjaak van der Geest -- Christianity, tradition, AIDS, and pornography : knowing sex in western Kenya / P. Wenzel Geissler and Ruth J. Prince -- Feeling and borderlinking in Yaka healing arts / Ren Devisch -- On knowing and not knowing in Latvian psychiatric consultations / Vieda Skultans -- Farewell to fieldwork? : constraints in anthropological research in violent situations / Els van Dongen -- Neutralizing the young : the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and youth / Pamela Reynolds -- In touch without touching : Islam and healing / David Parkin.
330   $aSocial scientific studies of medicine typically assume that systems of medical knowledge are uniform and consistent. But while anthropologists have long rejected the notion that cultures are discrete, bounded, and rule-drive entities, medical anthropology has been slower to develop alternative approaches to understanding cultures of health. This provocative volume considers the theoretical, methodological, and ethnographic implications of the fact that medical knowledge is frequently dynamic, incoherent, and contradictory, and that and our understanding of it is necessarily incomplete and part
606   $aMedical anthropology
606   $aTraditional medicine$vCross-cultural studies
615  0$aMedical anthropology.
615  0$aTraditional medicine
676   $a306.4/61
701   $aLittlewood$b Roland$01656253
801  0$bMiAaPQ
801  1$bMiAaPQ
801  2$bMiAaPQ
906   $aBOOK
912   $a9910822253303321
996   $aOn knowing and not knowing in the anthropology of medicine$94009005
997   $aUNINA