Medicine, Rationality, and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective

Preface 1. Medical anthropology and the problem of belief 2. Illness representations in medical anthropology: a reading of the field 3. How medicine constructs its objects 4. Semiotics and the study of medical reality 5. The body, illness experience, and the lifeworld: a phenomenological account of chronic pain 6. The narrative representation of illness 7. Aesthetics, rationality and medical anthropology.