Anthropologies of Medicine: A Colloquium on West European and North American Perspectives

Front Matter....Pages 1-6
About the Origins of this Volume....Pages 7-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Are Functional Syndromes Culture-Bound?....Pages 13-22
The Medical Anthropology of Viktor von Weizsäcker in the Present Clinical Context in Heidelberg....Pages 23-35
Ethnomedical Fundaments in the Work of Viktor von Weizsäcker....Pages 37-42
Phenomenology of the Body....Pages 43-58
Memory within the Body....Pages 59-65
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
The Symbolic and the Physiological....Pages 69-86
Nerves and Nostalgia....Pages 87-103
The Development and Change of Health Research among Migrant Workers in West-Germany....Pages 105-118
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
The Practice of Biomedicine and the Discourse on Hope....Pages 121-135
Culture, Cancer, and Communication in Italy....Pages 137-156
Images and Interpretations of Severe Illness: Ethnological Aspects of Dealing with Cancer....Pages 157-173
Emil Kraepelin and the Origins of American Psychiatric Diagnosis....Pages 175-181
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
The Love-Lorn Consumptive: South Asian Ethnography and the Psychosomatic Paradigm....Pages 185-195
Traditional European and Chinese Definitions of Illness and Medical Practice....Pages 197-204
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
The Hierarchies of Medicines....Pages 207-219
Cultural Constructivism: Sickness Histories and the Understanding of Ethnomedicines beyond Critical Medical Anthropologies....Pages 221-258
Holistic Health and a Changing Western World View....Pages 259-273
Back Matter....Pages 275-276