Description
Product ID: | 9780520045118 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Series: | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care |
Title: | Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture |
Subtitle: | An Exploration of the Borderland between Anthropology, Medicine, and Psychiatry |
Authors: | Author: Arthur Kleinman |
Page Count: | 448 |
Subjects: | Disability: social aspects, Disability: social aspects |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Presents a framework for studying the relationship between medicine, psychiatry, and culture. This book contains a dialectical tension between two reciprocally related orientations: it is both a cross-cultural perspective on the components of clinical care and a clinical perspective on anthropological studies of medicine and psychiatry. |
Imprint Name: | University of California Press |
Publisher Name: | University of California Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 1981-08-17 |