Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture: An Exploration of the Borderland Between Anthropology, Medicine, and Psychiatry Volume 5

by Arthur Kleinman

Book Overview

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. 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. The reader will find this book contains a dialectical tension between two reciprocally related...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520045114
• ISBN13: 9780520045118
• Release Date: August 1981
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"