Medicine and Morality in Haiti
The Contest for Healing Power
Paperback
Print on Demand | Lieferzeit: Print on Demand - Lieferbar innerhalb von 3-5 Werktagen I
73,93 €*
Alle Preise inkl. MwSt.|Versandkostenfrei
ISBN-13:
9780521575430
Veröffentl:
1996
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.09.1996
Seiten:
260
Autor:
Paul Brodwin
Gewicht:
427 g
Format:
229x152x15 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
A study of how medicine and morality in rural Haiti are shaped both by local religious traditions and by biomedical and folk medical practices.
Part I. History and Ethnography of Biomedicine: 2. Metropolitan medicine and strategies of rule; 3. Biomedicine in Jeanty; 4. Medicalization and illness experience: two case studies; Part II. The Moral Discourse of Medical Pluralism: 5. The Catholic practice of healing; 6. Houngan and the limits to Catholic morality; 7. Religious healing and the fragmentation of rural life; 8. Conclusion.
Kunden Rezensionen
Mehr zum Thema
Folgen Sie uns auf:
