Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture

Kleinman, Arthur

University of California Press, 1981

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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.

ISBN-13
9780520045118
ISBN-10
0520045114
Publisher
University of California Press
Year
1981
Publication date
1981-08-17
Pages
448
Dimensions
226x153x28
Weight
686