Inhaltsverzeichnis
About the Origins of this Volume. - Section 1: Culture-Specific Psychosomatic Paradigms. - Are functional syndromes culture-bound? . - The Medical Anthropology of Viktor von Weizsäcker in the Present Clinical Context of Heidelberg. - Ethnomedical Fundaments in the Work of Viktor von Weizsäcker. - Phenomenology of the Body: The Subject-Object Problem in Psychosomatic Medicine and the Role of traditional Medical Systems herein. - Memory within the Body: Women s Narrative and Identity in a Southern Italian Village. - Section 2: Sociosomatics and Ethnicity. - The Symbolic and the Physiological: Epigastric Patients in Family Medicine in Flanders. - Nerves and Nostalgia: Greek-Canadian Immigrants and Medical Care in Québec. - The Development and Change of Health Research among Migrant Workers in West-Germany: Ideologies and Practice between 1956 and 1986. - Section 3: Local Cultures of Biomedicine. - The Practice of Biomedicine and the Discourse on Hope: A Preliminary Investigation into the Culture of American Oncology. - Culture, Cancer, and Communication in Italy. - Images and Interpretations of Severe Illness: Ethnological Aspects of Dealing with Cancer. - Emil Kraepelin and the Origins of American Psychiatric Diagnosis. - Section 4: From Patients Complaints to Cultural Narrative. - The Love-Lorn Consumptive: South Asian Ethnography and the Psychosomatic Paradigm. - Traditional European and Chinese Definitions of Illness and Medical Practice. - Section 5: Medical Systems and Cultural Change: An Analysis of Facts and Theories. - The Hierarchies of Medicines: A Contextual Analysis of Schismogenic Processes. - Cultural Constructivism: Sickness Histories and the Understanding of Ethnomedicines beyond Critical Medical Anthropologies. - Holistic Health and a Changing Western World View. - Listof Contributors.
