| The Meaning of Illness Contributor(s): Auge, Mark And Herzlich (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3718652072 ISBN-13: 9783718652075 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Laboratory Medicine - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Dewey: 306.461 |
| LCCN: 00500772 |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.13 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: All this reveals a unity of purpose that should force both social science specialists and health specialists to consider the concept of illness, in much the same way as their patients sometimes ponder the meaning of their ills. This book is based on collective research carried out during the 1980s. This edition appears ten years after the original publication in French. Since then we have experienced many changes. In the late decade, disciplines have changed, as have the societies being researched. The outbreak of AIDS in Africa and the industrial world is not the least of these major and influential changes. The reader today will be sensitive to these changes and this research maintains its value as an intellectual endeavour and a useful model. From the Ivory Coast to the Cevennes, from Paris to Upper Volta, illness has always had a social dimension essential to its definition and interpretation. In "The Meaning of Illness," ethnologists detect in the logic of the symbols used to describ |