Anthropologies of medicine : a colloquium on West European and North American perspectives on behalf of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnomedizin

On Behalf Of The Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnomedizin Edited By Beatrix Pfleiderer And Gilles Bibeau. Includes Bibliographical References. 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