{"product_id":"writing-at-the-margin-discourse-between-anthropology-and-medicine-paperback","title":"Writing at the Margin: Discourse Between Anthropology and Medicine - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eArthur Kleinman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the most influential and creative scholars in medical anthropology takes stock of his recent intellectual odysseys in this collection of essays. Arthur Kleinman, an anthropologist and psychiatrist who has studied in Taiwan, China, and North America since 1968, draws upon his bicultural, multidisciplinary background to propose alternative strategies for thinking about how, in the postmodern world, the social and medical relate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWriting at the Margin\u003c\/i\u003e explores the border between medical and social problems, the boundary between health and social change. Kleinman studies the body as the mediator between individual and collective experience, finding that many health problems-for example the trauma of violence or depression in the course of chronic pain-are less individual medical problems than interpersonal experiences of social suffering. He argues for an ethnographic approach to moral practice in medicine, one that embraces the infrapolitical context of illness, the responses to it, the social institutions relating to it, and the way it is configured in medical ethics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreviously published in various journals, these essays have been revised, updated, and brought together with an introduction, an essay on violence and the politics of post-traumatic stress disorder, and a new chapter that examines the contemporary ethnographic literature of medical anthropology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the work of an energetic scholar whose capacity to read, digest, and reflect on ideas in diverse domains of inquiry is probably unequaled in the field.--Sue Estroff, author of \u003ci\u003eMaking It Crazy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn important book.--Charles Leslie, coeditor of \u003ci\u003ePaths to Asian Medical Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the work of an energetic scholar whose capacity to read, digest, and reflect on ideas in diverse domains of inquiry is probably unequaled in the field.--Sue Estroff, author of \u003ci\u003eMaking It Crazy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An important book.\"--Charles Leslie, coeditor of \u003ci\u003ePaths to Asian Medical Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eArthur Kleinman\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University, and Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology and Chair of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is the author of \u003ci\u003ePatients and Healers in the Context of Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (California, 1980), \u003ci\u003eSocial Origins of Distress and Disease\u003c\/i\u003e (1986), \u003ci\u003eRethinking Psychiatry\u003c\/i\u003e (1988), and \u003ci\u003eThe Illness Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e (1988); coauthor of \u003ci\u003eWorld Mental Health\u003c\/i\u003e (1995); and coeditor of \u003ci\u003ePain as Human Experience\u003c\/i\u003e (California, 1992) and \u003ci\u003eCulture and Depression\u003c\/i\u003e (California, 1985).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 300\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.89 x 8.93 x 6.07 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 15, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43741736370311,"sku":"9780520209657","price":61.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/x4Z2WzXNip9780520209657.webp?v=1768783843","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/writing-at-the-margin-discourse-between-anthropology-and-medicine-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}