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From the Preface, by Arthur Kleinman:Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture presents a theoretical framework for studying the relationship between medicine, psychiatry, and culture. That framework is principally illustrated by materials gathered in field research in Taiwan and, to a lesser extent, from materials gathered in similar research in Boston. The reader will find this book contains a dialectical tension between two reciprocally related orientations: it is both a cross-cultural (largely anthropological) perspective on the essential components of clinical care and a clinical perspective on anthropological studies of medicine and psychiatry. That dialectic is embodied in my own academic training and professional life, so that this book is a personal statement. I am a psychiatrist trained in anthropology. I have worked in library, field, and clinic on problems concerning medicine and psychiatry in Chinese culture. I teach cross-cultural psychiatry and medical anthropology, but I also practice and teach consultation psychiatry and take a clinical approach to my major cross-cultural teaching and research involvements. The theoretical framework elaborated in this book has been applied to all of those areas; in turn, they are used to illustrate the theory. Both the theory and its application embody the same dialectic. The purpose of this book is to advance both poles of that dialectic: to demonstrate the critical role of social science (especially anthropology and cross-cultural studies) in clinical medicine and psychiatry and to encourage study of clinical problems by anthropologists and other investigators involved in cross-cultural research.
Medical anthropology. --- Psychiatry, Transcultural. --- academic training. --- anthropological studies. --- anthropology. --- chinese culture. --- clinical care. --- clinical interviews. --- clinical perspective. --- consultation psychiatry. --- cross cultural psychiatry. --- cross cultural teaching. --- cross cultural. --- culture. --- east asia. --- ethnography. --- field research. --- health justice. --- health studies. --- health. --- healthcare. --- history of medicine. --- medical anthropology. --- medical history. --- medical. --- medicine. --- mental health project. --- mental health. --- psychiatry. --- psychology. --- social culture. --- social science. --- taiwan. --- theoretical framework.
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