Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture Kleinman Arthur
Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture Kleinman Arthur From the Preface, by Arthur Kleinman: Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture presents a theoretical framework for studying the…
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Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture Kleinman Arthur
From the Preface, by Arthur Kleinman: Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture presents a theoretical framework for studying the relationship between medicine, psychiatry, and culture. The reader will find this book contains a dialectical tension between two reciprocally related orientations: it is both a cross-cultural (largely anthropological) perspective on the essential components of clinical care and a clinical perspective on anthropological studies of medicine and psychiatry. That framework is principally illustrated by materials gathered in field research in Taiwan and, to a lesser extent, from materials gathered in similar research in Boston.
I am a psychiatrist trained in anthropology. That dialectic is embodied in my own academic training and professional life, so that this book is a personal statement. I have worked in library, field, and clinic on problems concerning
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