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Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture: An Exploration of the Borderland between Anthropology, Medicine, and Psychiatry - Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care
Arthur Kleinman
Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture: An Exploration of the Borderland between Anthropology, Medicine, and Psychiatry - Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care
Arthur Kleinman
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.
448 pages, illustrations
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | August 17, 1981 |
ISBN13 | 9780520045118 |
Publishers | University of California Press |
Pages | 448 |
Dimensions | 153 × 226 × 28 mm · 686 g |
Language | English |
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