Medical Identities: Healing, Well Being and Personhood by Kent Maynard (English)

Description: Medical Identities by Kent Maynard Looks at how a variety of health providers are perceived - from traditional healers to physicians, from diviners to nursing home providers. This title aims to demonstrate how class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, or state policy may all play formative roles in shaping the definition of health and wellbeing and how they are delivered. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Illness and misfortune more broadly are ubiquitous; thus, healing roles or professions are also universal. Ironically, however, little attention has been paid to those who heal or promote wellbeing. These come in many different guises: in some societies, healing is highly professional and specialized; in some cases, it is more preventative, in others more interventionist. Based on rich and wide-ranging ethnographic data and especially written for this volume, these essays look at how a great variety of health providers are perceived – from traditional healers to physicians, from diviners to nursing home providers. Conversely, the authors also ask how healers, or those concerned with wider matters of well being, view themselves and to what degree social attitudes differ in regard to who these people are, as well as their power, prestige and activities. As these essays demonstrate, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, or state policy may all play formative roles in shaping the definition of health and wellbeing, how they are delivered, and the character and prestige of those who provide for our health and welfare in society. Author Biography Kent Maynard (1947-2014), was Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Anthropology at Denison University and a Visiting Fellow, at ISCA, University of Oxford. Table of Contents Introduction: Working at Therapeutic PersonhoodKent MaynardChapter 1. General Practitioners in Britain and South AfricaAnne DigbyChapter 2. Drug-providers in CambodiaIng-Britt Trankell and Jan OvesonChapter 3. Medical Identity in CameroonKent MaynardChapter 4.Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity among Zulu DivinersGina BuijsChapter 5. Learning to be an AcupuncturistElisabeth HsuChapter 6. Auxiliary Workers in a Nursing-home HierarchyJanette DaviesChapter 7. The Cost of a Normal BirthJenny LittlewoodNotes on contributorsIndex Review "Medical Identities is a welcome call to arms – we need to take medical identities seriously. There is more to healing and promotion of well-being than the health-seeking behaviours and experiences of patients, on the one hand, and the power-knowledge relations that bear medical professions, on the other." • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI) Review Quote "Medical Identities is a welcome call to arms - we need to take medical identities seriously. There is more to healing and promotion of well-being than the health-seeking behaviours and experiences of patients, on the one hand, and the power-knowledge relations that bear medical professions, on the other." JRAI Details ISBN1845450388 Publisher Berghahn Books Series Social Identities Year 2007 ISBN-10 1845450388 ISBN-13 9781845450380 Format Hardcover Imprint Berghahn Books Subtitle Healing, Well Being and Personhood Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations index Pages 172 Short Title MEDICAL IDENTITIES Language English Media Book Series Number 2 DEWEY 610.69 DOI 10.1604/9781845450380 UK Release Date 2007-05-01 Publication Date 2007-05-01 AU Release Date 2007-05-01 NZ Release Date 2007-05-01 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education Author Kent Maynard Edited by Kent Maynard We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159362018;

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