Introduction to Medical Anthropology 3102-MWAM
Medical anthropology aims at understanding the illness, body and human lives in a humanistic and interdisciplinary way. It deals not only with medical experience of illness, or social scientific knowledge, but becomes also a practical knowledge - knowledge of how to act, and how to perceive ill persons' behaviours. Medical anthropology studies socially and culturally constructed ideals, discourses, experiences of health and disease.
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Bibliography
D. Penkala-Gawęcka, Antropologia medyczna – dlaczego i jak?, „Op.cit.,”, nr 41, 2008.
D. Penkala-Gawęcka, Antropologia medyczna i etnomedycyna. Rozwój, stan badań, perspektywy, „Lud”, 1983.
K. Adamiak, M. Hekselman, Uchynięte, “op.cit.,” 2008, nr 41
Susan Sontag, Choroba jako metafora, Warszawa 1999.
S. Low, Embodied Metaphors: Nerves as Lived Experience, [w:] Embodiment and Experience. The Existential Ground of Culture and Self, (red.) Thomas Csordas London, 2001.
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G. Riemann, F. Schutze, „Trajektoria” jako podstawowa koncepcja teoretyczna w analizach cierpienia i bezładnych procesów społecznych, „Kultura i Społeczeństwo” 1992, nr 2.
R. Thomas-MacLean, Understanding Breast Cancer Stories via Frank’s Narrative Types, “Social Science & Medicine”, nr 58, 2004.
R. Loewe, Illness Narratives, [w: ] Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology, red. C. Ember, M. Ember, Kluwer 2004.
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M. Merleau-Ponty, Fenomenologia percepcji [fragmenty], Warszawa 2000.
T. Csordas, Embodiment and Cultural Phenomenology, [w:] red. G. Weiss&H. Haber, Perspectives on embodiment, London 1999.
G. Becker. Phenomenology of Health and Illness, [w:] Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology, red. C. Ember, M. Kluwer 2004.
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