Guest guest Posted January 14, 2005 Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 Thank you Marnae - I am particularly interested in 'medical belief systems' which Chinese medicine practitioners are party to equally as the western practitioners. Please do send your list. Of all the authors, I find Good, and Kleinman the most direct and to the point. In this category, Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good's Pain As Human Experience: An Anthropological Perspective is right on. I enjoy Foucalt's insight, and in particular his focus on public health, even if he is obscured by academic rhetoric. Will > When I referred to outdated, I was referring more to Levi-Strauss' work > than Good. L-S' work certainly is still read in both undergrad and > graduate anthropology courses, but he is seen as an interesting > theoretician with little hands-on work. He was what is termed an " armchair " > anthropologist. The structuralist school is still strong and L-S' work > certainly relevant, but most structuralists also are aware of the > limitations of a strict structuralist take on culture. > > As far as the " dating " of Foucault vs. Good - both retain their intrinsic > value. Foucault, hard as he is to unpack, is a historian who writes about > a particular time in French history and how that time seems to have been a > moment of change in many social arenas, medicine, psychology, the penal > system... He is trying to point out how the nature of these culture shifts > will impact the development of a field of endeavor to such a degree that we > lose sight of how and why the shift occured. He is not a medical > anthropologist per se but a historian philosopher with some very > interesting ideas about the development of modern cultural practices in > relation to historical happenings. > > The thing to remember about Good's work, which I think is great and which > influenced me a great deal in the mid-late 80's when I first encountered > it, is that medicine in the 70's/80's was in a different place than it is > today. On one level, his work was written for MD's to help them to > understand that culture plays a role in the health and illness of their > patients - what a notion! Today, these ideas are much more widely > understood - His and Kleinman's work taken together gave physician's a > model for how culture might impact health and disease and what to do about > it. Good took Kleinman's concept of the Explanatory Model (EM) and tried > to help physicians to put it into a graphical picture - the idea was good > but usually more work and effort than most physicians were willing to put in. > > If you are interested in looking at the reading lists from some good Med > Anth courses I would be happy to forward them on. You also might want to > look at the later work of Lorna Rhodes - Emptying Beds. > > Marnae William R. Morris, LAc., OMD, MSEd President, AAOM 310-453-8300 phone 310-829-3838 fax " How do we know it is destiny? Because it is. " This message is a PRIVATE communication. This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential and/or legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, copy, or use it, and do not disclose it to others. Please notify the sender of the delivery error by replying to this message with the word delete in the subject column, and then delete it and any attachments from your system. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 14, 2005 Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 Will - I sent you a syllabus as an attachment (off list) but for others on list who might be interested: 2 very good anthologies: Johnson, Thomas M. & Carolyn Sargent 1990 Medical Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Method. New York: Praeger Leslie, Charles and Allan Young, eds. 1992 Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge. Berkeley: University of CA Press Also of interest: Most of the work of Clifford Geertz Most of the work of Victor Turner Peter Kong Ming and Mary Louie New The Barefoot Doctors of China: Healers for All Seasons in Culture, Disease & Healing ed. by David Landy David Landy Pluralism and Integration in the Indian and Chinese Medical Systems in: Culture, Disease and Healing ed. by David Landy (Note this is a much older text and may not be in print any more). E.V. Daniel 1985 The Pulse as an Icon in Siddha Medicine. Contributions to Asian Studies 18:115-126 Lynn Payer 1988 Medicine & Cuture Varieties of Treatment in the United States, England, West Germany & France New York: Henry Holt. Marnae At 10:38 AM 1/14/2005, you wrote: >Thank you Marnae - > >I am particularly interested in 'medical belief systems' which Chinese >medicine practitioners are party to equally as the western practitioners. >Please do >send your list. Of all the authors, I find Good, and Kleinman the most direct >and to the point. In this category, Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good's Pain As Human >Experience: An Anthropological Perspective is right on. I enjoy Foucalt's >insight, and in particular his focus on public health, even if he is >obscured by >academic rhetoric. > >Will > > > > > > When I referred to outdated, I was referring more to Levi-Strauss' work > > than Good. L-S' work certainly is still read in both undergrad and > > graduate anthropology courses, but he is seen as an interesting > > theoretician with little hands-on work. He was what is termed an > " armchair " > > anthropologist. The structuralist school is still strong and L-S' work > > certainly relevant, but most structuralists also are aware of the > > limitations of a strict structuralist take on culture. > > > > As far as the " dating " of Foucault vs. Good - both retain their intrinsic > > value. Foucault, hard as he is to unpack, is a historian who writes about > > a particular time in French history and how that time seems to have been a > > moment of change in many social arenas, medicine, psychology, the penal > > system... He is trying to point out how the nature of these culture shifts > > will impact the development of a field of endeavor to such a degree > that we > > lose sight of how and why the shift occured. He is not a medical > > anthropologist per se but a historian philosopher with some very > > interesting ideas about the development of modern cultural practices in > > relation to historical happenings. > > > > The thing to remember about Good's work, which I think is great and which > > influenced me a great deal in the mid-late 80's when I first encountered > > it, is that medicine in the 70's/80's was in a different place than it is > > today. On one level, his work was written for MD's to help them to > > understand that culture plays a role in the health and illness of their > > patients - what a notion! Today, these ideas are much more widely > > understood - His and Kleinman's work taken together gave physician's a > > model for how culture might impact health and disease and what to do about > > it. Good took Kleinman's concept of the Explanatory Model (EM) and tried > > to help physicians to put it into a graphical picture - the idea was good > > but usually more work and effort than most physicians were willing to > put in. > > > > If you are interested in looking at the reading lists from some good Med > > Anth courses I would be happy to forward them on. You also might want to > > look at the later work of Lorna Rhodes - Emptying Beds. > > > > Marnae > > >William R. Morris, LAc., OMD, MSEd >President, AAOM >310-453-8300 phone >310-829-3838 fax > > " How do we know it is destiny? Because it is. " > >This message is a PRIVATE communication. This e-mail and any attachments may >be confidential and/or legally privileged. If you are not the intended >recipient, do not read, copy, or use it, and do not disclose it to others. >Please >notify the sender of the delivery error by replying to this message with >the word >delete in the subject column, and then delete it and any attachments from >your system. Thank you. > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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