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Title

What's behind the symptom? : on psychiatric observation and anthropological understanding / Angel Martínez-Hernáez ; translated by Susan M. DiGiacomo and John Bates ; foreword by Arthur M. Kleinman.

Author

Martínez-Hernáez, Angel

Publication

Amsterdam : Harwood Academic, c2000.

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Description

xvi, 277 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Theory and practice in medical anthropology and international health ; v. 6

Uniform Title

Theory and practice in medical anthropology and international health v. 6.

Subject

• Anthropology, Cultural
• Anthropology, Medical
• Behavioral Symptoms > etiology
• Cultural psychiatry
• Ethnicity > psychology
• Ethnopsychology
• Medical anthropology
• Psychiatry
• Symptoms

Note

• Based on the author's thesis (doctoral--Universitat de Barcelona, 1994).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-271) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. What is behind the symptom? -- pt. 1. On Psychiatric Observation ... 2. The dream of a biomedical psychiatry. 3. Kraepelin versus Freud: A retrospective. 4. Neo-Kraepelinism: Nosologies. 5. Neo-Kraepelinism: Epidemiologies. 6. The limits of psychiatric observation -- pt. 2. ... and Anthropological Understanding. 7. Toward an anthropology of symptoms: Four pre-interpretive approaches. 8. Toward an anthropology of symptoms: Hermeneutics and politics. 9. Semiotic incursions. 10. Ethnographic interpretations: Symptoms, symbols and small worlds. 11. The limits of ethnographic interpretation.

ISBN

9057026120

OCLC

42407487

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library