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Medical Anthropology
"Kleinman, a psychiatrist, trained in anthropology, reports on his studies of
health care in Taiwan. He describes his observations of clinical interviews
between various medical practitioners—folk-healers, temple medicine men,
and Chinese-style and Western-style physicians—and their patients.
Throughout this fascinating and thought-provoking account, the author
stresses the importance of adopting the proper cultural perspective, mak-
ing one's interpretations within that framework, and relying on direct
observation. Kleinman is adept at setting the cultural context and acute in
identifying the important points. His use of the 'explanatory model' and
'clinical reality' in his interpretation and discussion clarifies what otherwise
might be diffuse and confusing situations." —Library Journal
"An exploration of the controversial borderland between psychiatry, medi-
cine and medical anthropology. Professor Kleinman, with his feet firmly
based in all three camps, has succeeded in writing a scholarly book which
will reward a careful reader. .
The author urges an integration of social
and cultural methods into the routine training of doctors, so as to enable a
more humane and appropriate clinical practice.... it can only be hoped that
the doors of the various departments, including departments of psychiatry,
will be open and that this challenge will be responded to."
—British Journal of Psychiatry
"His experiences are not the point of his story; they serve to illuminate. His
personal picture of Taiwan's health care is embedded in a matrix of argu-
ment. His aim is to convince us that we must study the whole of a culture
to understand its health care, that a system of health care includes every
healer and belief, no matter how foreign to the dominant practice, that
common features of health-care systems can be derived from comparing
them, and that these common features are instructive about health care
and about our own systems." —New England Journal of Medicine
University of California Press
ISBN O-S20-O"SLL-q
9 780520 0451 18
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