Good, Byron.

Medicine, rationality, and experience : an anthropological perspective / Byron J. Good. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1994. - xvii, 242 p. ; 24 cm. - The Lewis Henry Morgan lectures ; 1990 .

1. Medical anthropology and the problem of belief
2. Illness representations in medical anthropology: a reading of the field
3. How medicine constructs its objects
4. Semiotics and the study of medical reality
5. The body, illness experience, and the lifeworld: a phenomenological account of chronic pain
6. The narrative representation of illness
7. Aesthetics, rationality and medical anthropology.

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Medical anthropology.
Social medicine.

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