Patients and healers in the context of culture: an exploration of the borderland between anthropology, medicine, and psychiatry
Auteur :
Kleinman, Arthur
Éditeur :
University of California Press
ISBN :
9780520045118
Date de publication :
17 août 1981
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 2,8 cm
Poids :
590 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Presents a framework for studying the relationship between medicine, psychiatry, and culture. This book contains a dialectical tension between two reciprocally related orientations: it is both a cross-cultural perspective on the components of clinical care and a clinical perspective on anthropological studies of medicine and psychiatry.