A Colloquium on West European and North American Perspectives

Bibliogr. dissém. Notes.

About the Origins of this Volume / Pfleiderer, B. -- Are Functional Syndromes Culture-Bound? / Uexküll, T.V. -- The Medical Anthropology of Viktor von Weizsäcker in the Present Clinical Context of Heidelberg / Hahn, P. -- Ethnomedical Fundaments in the Work of Viktor von Weizsäcker / Jacob, W. -- Phenomenology of the Body : The subject-object problem in psychosomatic medicine / Ots, T. -- Memory within the Body : Women's narrative and identity in a southern Italian village / Pandolfi, M. -- The Symbolic and the Physiological / Devisch, R. -- Nerves and Nostalgia : Greek-canadian immigrants and medical care in Québec / Lock, M. -- The Development and Change of Health Research among Migrant Workers in West-Germany / Pfleiderer, B. -- The Practice of Biomedicine and the Discourse on Hope : A preliminary investigation into the culture of American oncology / Delvecchio Good, M.-J. -- Culture, Cancer and Communication in Italy / Gordon, D.R. -- Images and Interpretations of Severe Illness : Ethnological aspects of dealing with cancer / Dornheim, J. -- Emil Kraepelin and the Origins of American Psychiatric Diagnosis / Young, A. -- The Love-Lorn Consumptive : South Asian Ethnography and the Psychosomatic Paradigm / Zimmermann, F. -- Traditional European and Chinese Definitions of Illness and Medical Practice / Unschuld, P.U. -- The Hierarchies of Medicines : A contextual analysis of schismogenic processes / Bibeau, G. -- Cultural Constructivism : Sickness histories and the understanding of ethnomedicines beyond critical medical anthropologies / Gaines, A.D. -- Holistic Health and a Changing Western World View / MacCormack, C.