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Sickness and Healing
Robert A. Hahn
其他書名
An Anthropological Perspective
出版Yale University Press, 1995
ISBN03001592699780300159264
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=wkVRnQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Hahn begins by developing a definition of sickness that is based on the patient's perception of suffering and disturbance rather than on the physician's assessment of biomedical signs. After reviewing the principal theories that account for the forms of sickness and healing found in different historical and cultural contexts, he explores the relevance of both anthropological and epidemiological approaches to sickness, focusing on the persistent gap between white and black infant mortality in the United States. Hahn then describes contemporary Western medicine as it might be seen by a visiting foreign anthropologist.