Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture
An Exploration of the Borderland between Anthropology, Medicine, and Psychiatry
Arthur Kleinman
SOCIETY & SOCIAL SCIENCES
43 €
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.
Publisher: University of California Press
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 17 Aug 1981
Dimensions: 226 x 153 x 28 mm
ISBN: 9780520045118
