Writing at the Margin

Discourse Between Anthropology and Medicine

By: Arthur Kleinman

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Paperback | 15 August 1997 | Edition Number 1

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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 psychiatrist who has studied in Taiwan, China, and North America since 1968, draws upon his bicultural, multidisciplinary background to propose alternative strategies for thinking about how, in the postmodern world, the social and medical relate.

Writing at the Margin explores the border between medical and social problems, the boundary between health and social change. Kleinman studies the body as the mediator between individual and collective experience, finding that many health problems-for example the trauma of violence or depression in the course of chronic pain-are less individual medical problems than interpersonal experiences of social suffering. He argues for an ethnographic approach to moral practice in medicine, one that embraces the infrapolitical context of illness, the responses to it, the social institutions relating to it, and the way it is configured in medical ethics.

Previously published in various journals, these essays have been revised, updated, and brought together with an introduction, an essay on violence and the politics of post-traumatic stress disorder, and a new chapter that examines the contemporary ethnographic literature of medical anthropology.

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Preface
Introduction: Medical Anthropology as Intellectual Career	p. 1
What Is Specific to Biomedicine?	p. 21
Anthropology of Bioethics	p. 41
A Critique of Objectivity in International Health	p. 68
Suffering and Its Professional Transformation: Toward an Ethnography of Interpersonal Experience	p. 95
Pain and Resistance: The Delegitimation and Relegitimation of Local Worlds	p. 120
The Social Course of Epilepsy: Chronic Illness as Social Experience in Interior China	p. 147
Violence, Culture, and the Politics of Trauma	p. 173
The New Wave of Ethnographies in Medical Anthropology	p. 193
Appendix: Works by Arthur Kleinman	p. 257
Notes	p. 267
References	p. 285
Index	p. 309
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