Institutionalizing Illness Narratives
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Institutionalizing Illness Narratives
Discourses on Fever and Care from Southern India
George, Mathew
Springer Verlag, Singapore
08/2016
169
Dura
Inglês
9789811019043
15 a 20 dias
This book is an ethnographic work that uses a critical medical anthropology approach to examine the concept of fever care in the context of southern India. Through a study of fevers, the study provides a critical overview to medical practice itself, as it is said that the history of fevers is also the history of medicine.
Chapter 1. Interpreting Illness, Disease, Medicine and Medical Care.- Chapter 2. Historical Discourses on Fevers.- Chapter 3. Institutionalizing Fever Epidemics and Fever Care in Contemporary Kerala.- Chapter 4. Fear of Fevers: Risk, Medicalisation and Provisioning.- Chapter 5. Biomedicine Examined: Interpreting Culture of Fever Care. - Chapter 6. Voice of Illness and Voice of Medicine in Doctor-Patient Interaction.- Chapter 7. Fever talk as sub-culture of Fever care.
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This book is an ethnographic work that uses a critical medical anthropology approach to examine the concept of fever care in the context of southern India. Through a study of fevers, the study provides a critical overview to medical practice itself, as it is said that the history of fevers is also the history of medicine.
Chapter 1. Interpreting Illness, Disease, Medicine and Medical Care.- Chapter 2. Historical Discourses on Fevers.- Chapter 3. Institutionalizing Fever Epidemics and Fever Care in Contemporary Kerala.- Chapter 4. Fear of Fevers: Risk, Medicalisation and Provisioning.- Chapter 5. Biomedicine Examined: Interpreting Culture of Fever Care. - Chapter 6. Voice of Illness and Voice of Medicine in Doctor-Patient Interaction.- Chapter 7. Fever talk as sub-culture of Fever care.
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