Patients And Healers In The Context Of Culture by Arthur Kleinman
An Exploration of the Borderland between Anthropology, Medicine, and Psychiatry
A seminal anthropological and psychiatric study showing how experiences of illness, suffering, and healing are shaped by cultural meanings, social relationships, and institutional practices; it uses ethnographic case studies and clinical encounters to distinguish disease from illness, introduce the idea of patients’ and healers’ explanatory models, and argue that effective care requires understanding patients’ moral worlds, local contexts, and the social forces that influence diagnosis, treatment, and caregiving.
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- Published
- 1980
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- American
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- English
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