On knowing and not knowing in the anthropology of medicine /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Littlewood, Roland
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, [2007]
Subjects:	Medical anthropology. Traditional medicine > Cross-cultural studies.
Online Access:	Table of contents only

Table of Contents:

The importance of knowing about not knowing / Murray Last
Coconuts and syphilis : an essay in overinterpretation / Roland Littlewood
On "medical system" and questions in fieldwork / Gilbert Lewis
Explanatory models and oversystematization in medical anthropology / Simon Dein
The ambivalence of integrative medicine / Guido Giarelli
Not knowing about defecation / Sjaak van der Geest
Christianity, tradition, AIDS, and pornography : knowing sex in western Kenya / P. Wenzel Geissler and Ruth J. Prince
Feeling and borderlinking in Yaka healing arts / Ren Devisch
On knowing and not knowing in Latvian psychiatric consultations / Vieda Skultans
Farewell to fieldwork? : constraints in anthropological research in violent situations / Els van Dongen
Neutralizing the young : the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and youth / Pamela Reynolds
In touch without touching : Islam and healing / David Parkin.