The Anthropology of Medicine: From Culture to Method

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Preface: the Cultural Context of Medicine and the Biohuman Paradigm ix
• References xiv
• Part I - Medical Systems and the Uses of Choice 1
• References 3
• 1 - Creativity in Illness: Methodological Linkages to the Logic and Language of Science in Folk Pursuit of Health in Central Italy 5
• Notes 17
• References 18
• 2 - Aztec and European Medicine in the New World, 1521-1600 19
• Notes 27
• 3 - Phantoms and Physicians: Social Change Through Medical Pluralism 31
• Notes 52
• References 56
• Part II - Empirical Analyses of Non-Western Medical Practices and Medical Ecology 59
• References 60
• 4 - Poisoned Apples and Honeysuckles: the Medicinal Plants of Native America 61
• Acknowledgments 69
• References 70
• 5 - Herbal and Symbolic Forms of Treatment in the Medicine of the Lowland Mixe (oaxaca, Mexico) 71
• Acknowledgments 93
• References 94
• 6 - The Evolution of Human Nutrition 96
• Acknowledgments 137
• References 138
• 7 - Zoonoses and the Origins of Old and New World Viral Diseases: New Perspectives 143
• Appendix: Short Descriptions of Animal Virus Families 164
• References 166
• 8 - Malaria, Medicine, and Meals: A Biobehavioral Perspective 169
• Acknowledgments 201
• Notes 203
• Notes 204
• Part III - Embodied Mind: Metaphors of Pain, Placebo, and Symbolic Healing 211
• References 213
• 9 - The Impassioned Knowledge of the Shaman 215
• Notes 221
• References 222
• 10 - Anarchy, Abjection, and Absurdity: A Case of Metaphoric Medicine Among the Tabwa of Zaire 224
• Acknowledgments 236
• Notes 238
• References 239
• 11 - Physiology and Symbols: the Anthropological Implications of the Placebo Effect 240
• Acknowledgments 251
• References 252
• 12 - Narratives of Chronic Pain 254
• Notes 270
• References 272
• 13 - The Effect of Ethnicity on Prescriptions for Patient Controlled Analgesia for Post-Operative Pain 273
• Acknowledgments 279
• References 280
• Part IV - Modern Medical Inquiry and Culture Change 281
• References 284
• 14 - Stress and Its Management: the Cultural Construction of an Illness and Its Treatment 285
• Notes 302
• 15 - Science of the Mind in Contexts of A Culture 305
• References 317
• 16 - The "New Psychiatry": from Ideology to Cultural Error 318
• Notes 333
• References 334
• 17 - The Aging: Legal and Ethical Personhood in Culture Change 336
• References 348
• 18 - The Extraneous Factor in Western Medicine 351
• Acknowledgments 365
• Notes 366
• References 367
• 19 - "Medical Anthropology": Convergence of Mind and Experience in the Anthropological Imagination 369
• References 379
• Index 383
• About the Editors and Contributors 399

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