X-Rays, Spirits, and Witches: Understanding Health and Illness in Ethnographic Context - Hardcover

Murchison, Julian M.

 
9781442267398: X-Rays, Spirits, and Witches: Understanding Health and Illness in Ethnographic Context
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1442267399 ISBN 13: 9781442267398
Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Based on primary research conducted in Tanzania over the last fifteen years, X-Rays, Spirits, and Witches, provides an ethnography specifically designed for use in medical anthropology classes. The text is organized around four key topics that are recurrent themes in medical anthropology across diverse settings: medical pluralism, illness narratives, embodied experiences of health and illness, and the multilayered ways that power dynamics influence healthcare.
In addition to telling an engaging story of health, illness, and medical treatment as experienced in a real-world setting, the chapters link anthropological terms and concepts to specific events. Unobtrusive in-text definitions as well as a complementary glossary of terms help students recognize and employ the language of medical anthropology. Short pull-out boxes explore key concepts (such as the idea of "the medical gaze") and highlight for further consideration issues which are of particular relevance in the medical anthropology classroom. Such pedagogical elements are designed to complement but not bog down the ethnography-enabling students to make better connections between real-world research and core textbook concepts.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Julian M. Murchison is head of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology at Eastern Michigan University. He has taught a wide range of courses, including Health & Illness, Ethnography of East Africa, and Ethnographic Research & Writing. He has conducted ethnographic research in Tanzania for more than fifteen years. He is the author of Ethnography Essentials (2009).

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Verlag
Rowman & Littlefield
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1442267399
ISBN 13 
9781442267398
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
162
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