Writing at the Margin: Discourse Between Anthropology and Medicine

By Arthur Kleinman

Book Overview

One of the most influential and creative scholars in medical anthropology takes stock of his recent intellectual odysseys in this collection of essays. Arthur Kleinman, an anthropologist and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520200993
• ISBN13: 9780520200999
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.3" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Kleinman reflects

This book seems to be closer to the thinking of a man late in his career. I get the sense that his thinking has changed since his famous paper in the annals of internal medicine where he makes the distinction between illness and disease. He seems to ignore the etymological significance of the term "disease" as he has moved more to the social constructionist position in medical anthropology, which you will find here. Still, this is a good book and he raises the classical questions about psychiatric suffering, medicalization, labeling, and the hegemony of particular approaches to medicine.