Writing at the Margin - Discourse Between Anthropology & Medicine (Paper)

1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-0-520-20965-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

One of the most influential and creative scholars in medical anthropology takes stock of his recent intellectual odysseys in this collection of essays. Arthur Kleinman, an anthropologist and psychiatrist who has studied in Taiwan, China, and North America since 1968, draws upon his bicultural, multidisciplinary background to propose alternative strategies for thinking about how, in the postmodern world, the social and medical relate.

Writing at the Margin explores the border between medical and social problems, the boundary between health and social change. Kleinman studies the body as the mediator between individual and collective experience, finding that many health problems—for example the trauma of violence or depression in the course of chronic pain—are less individual medical problems than interpersonal experiences of social suffering. He argues for an ethnographic approach to moral practice in medicine, one that embraces the infrapolitical context of illness, the responses to it, the social institutions relating to it, and the way it is configured in medical ethics.

Previously published in various journals, these essays have been revised, updated, and brought together with an introduction, an essay on violence and the politics of post-traumatic stress disorder, and a new chapter that examines the contemporary ethnographic literature of medical anthropology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kleinman, Arthur

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnomedizin
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Humanbiologie Physische Anthropologie, Paläoanthropologie, Evolutionäre Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PREFACE    

1
Introduction: Medical Anthropology as Intellectual Career    

PART ONE: THE CULTURE OF BIOMEDICINE
2
What Is Specific to Biomedicine?    
3
Anthropology of Bioethics    
4
A Critique of Objectivity in International Health    

PART TWO: SUFFERING AS SOCIAL EXPERIENCE
5
Suffering and Its Professional Transformation:

Toward an Ethnography of Interpersonal Experience
(with Joan Kleinman)    
6
Pain and Resistance: The Delegitimation and
Relegitimation of Local Worlds    
7
The Social Course of Epilepsy: Chronic Illness
as Social Experience in Interior China
(with Wen-zhi Wang, Shi-chuo Li, Xue-ming Cheng,
Xiu-ying Dai, ICun-tun Li, and Joan Kleinman)    
8
Violence, Culture, and the Politics of Trauma
(with Robert Desjarlais)    

PART THREE: THE STATE OF MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
9
The New Wave of Ethnographies in Medical Anthropology    

APPENDIX: WORKS BY ARTHUR KLEINMAN    
NOTES    
REFERENCES    
INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Arthur Kleinman is Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University, and Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology and Chair of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is the author of Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture (California, 1980), Social Origins of Distress and Disease (1986), Rethinking Psychiatry (1988), and The Illness Narrative (1988); coauthor of World Mental Health (1995); and coeditor of Pain as Human Experience (California, 1992) and Culture and Depression (California, 1985).