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Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture

Paperback • 1981 • English

Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture

By Arthur Kleinman

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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 orientations: it is both a cross-cultural (...Show more

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9780520045118

Publisher

University of California Press

Published year

1981

Language

English

Original title

Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture

Format

Paperback

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