Anthropologies of medicine

InhaltsverzeichnisAbout the Origins of this Volume.Section 1: Culture-Specific Psychosomatic Paradigms.Are functional syndromes culture-bound?.The Medical Anthropology of Viktor von Weizsäcker in the Present Clinical Context of Heidelberg.Ethnomedical Fundaments in the Work of Viktor von Weizsäcker.Phenomenology of the Body: The Subject-Object Problem in Psychosomatic Medicine and the Role of traditional Medical Systems herein.Memory within the Body: Women’s Narrative and Identity in a Southern Italian Village.Section 2: Sociosomatics and Ethnicity.The Symbolic and the Physiological: Epigastric Patients in Family Medicine in Flanders.Nerves and Nostalgia: Greek-Canadian Immigrants and Medical Care in Québec.The Development and Change of Health Research among Migrant Workers in West-Germany: Ideologies and Practice between 1956 and 1986.Section 3: Local Cultures of Biomedicine.The Practice of Biomedicine and the Discourse on Hope: A Preliminary Investigation into the Culture of American Oncology.Culture, Cancer, and Communication in Italy.Images and Interpretations of Severe Illness: Ethnological Aspects of Dealing with Cancer.Emil Kraepelin and the Origins of American Psychiatric Diagnosis.Section 4: From Patients’ Complaints to Cultural Narrative.The Love-Lorn Consumptive: South Asian Ethnography and the Psychosomatic Paradigm.Traditional European and Chinese Definitions of Illness and Medical Practice.Section 5: Medical Systems and Cultural Change: An Analysis of Facts and Theories.The Hierarchies of Medicines: A Contextual Analysis of Schismogenic Processes.Cultural Constructivism: Sickness Histories and the Understanding of Ethnomedicines beyond Critical Medical Anthropologies.Holistic Health and a Changing Western World View.Listof Contributors.