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 |
