American oncology and the discourse on hopeCulture, Medicine, and Psychiatry - Tập 14 - Trang 59-79 - 1990
Mary-Jo del Vecchio Good, Byron J. Good, Cynthia Schaffer, Stuart E. Lind
From the perspective of medical anthropology and comparative research, American oncology appears as a unique variant of international biomedical culture, particularly when contrasted with oncological practice in societies such as Japan and Italy. Based on interviews with 51 oncologists in Harvard teaching hospitals, this paper argues that American oncological practice draws on distinctive cultural...... hiện toàn bộ
Seeing a Brain Through an Other: The Informant’s Share in the Diagnosis of DementiaCulture, Medicine, and Psychiatry - Tập 41 - Trang 541-563 - 2017
Laurence Anne Tessier
This article takes up the neuroscientific assumption of our brains as “solitary” and contrasts this understanding with the description of actual clinical practices. Drawing on observations of clinical consultations and team meetings in a world famous US center for the diagnosis of dementia, I examine how the “informant”, a member of the patient’s family, participates in the diagnosis process. Base...... hiện toàn bộ
Books receivedCulture, Medicine, and Psychiatry - Tập 10 Số 4 - Trang 411-413 - 1986
Health beliefs and hypertension: A case-control study in a Moroccan Jewish community in IsraelCulture, Medicine, and Psychiatry - Tập 11 - Trang 79-95 - 1987
Shelly F. Greenfield, Jeffrey Borkan, Yair Yodfat
This research focuses on the efficacy of health interventions and patient-physician negotiation in modifying patient belief models and influening compliance behavior. It is an example of clinically applied anthropology in the Hadassah Family Practice Clinic of Beit Shemesh, Israel. Forty-six Moroccan Jewish hypertensives and normotensives were interviewed using a semi-structured questionnaire. Exp...... hiện toàn bộ
Rights as Relationships: Collaborating with Faith Healers in Community Mental Health in GhanaCulture, Medicine, and Psychiatry - Tập 43 - Trang 613-635 - 2019
Ursula M. Read
This paper explores the ways in which mental health workers think through the ethics of working with traditional and faith healers in Ghana. Despite reforms along the lines advocated by global mental health, including rights-based legislation and the expansion of community-based mental health care, such healers remain popular resources for treatment and mechanical restraint and other forms of coer...... hiện toàn bộ