Institutionalizing Illness Narratives : Discourses on Fever and Care from Southern India

This book is an ethnographic work that uses a critical medical anthropology approach to examine the concept of fever care in the context of southern India. Through a study of fevers, the study provides a critical overview to medical practice itself, as it is said that the history of fevers is also t...

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Main Author George, Mathew (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Subjects
Social sciences.
Medicine > Philosophy.
Public health.
Medical anthropology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9789811019050
DOI10.1007/978-981-10-1905-0
Physical DescriptionXXVI, 169 p. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Interpreting Illness, Disease, Medicine and Medical Care
  • Chapter 2. Historical Discourses on Fevers
  • Chapter 3. Institutionalizing Fever Epidemics and Fever Care in Contemporary Kerala
  • Chapter 4. Fear of Fevers: Risk, Medicalisation and Provisioning
  • Chapter 5. Biomedicine Examined: Interpreting Culture of Fever Care. - Chapter 6. Voice of Illness and Voice of Medicine in Doctor-Patient Interaction
  • Chapter 7. Fever talk as sub-culture of Fever care.

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