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Antropología médica
Una de las paradojas de nuestro tiempo es que cuanto mayores son los avances médicos y cuanto más destacado es el desarrollo biotecnológico más necesitados estamos de teorías sociales que nos inviten a repensar la salud y la enfermedad en nuestro mundo desigual y diverso. Este libro se inscribe en un contexto intelectual, planteando un recorrido por las diferentes teorías de la Antropología médica, desde la gestación de esta especialidad de la Antropología hasta los debates más contemporáneos
RESET: Reflexiones antropológicas ante la pandemia de COVID-19
El término reset apela a la sensación de reinicio, paréntesis o stand-by que ha sacudido nuestras vidas desde el inicio del año 2020 a consecuencia de la pandemia de COVID-19. Como suele ocurrir, los reinicios alimentan la incertidumbre; en ellos se depositan esperanzas y también precauciones. Son ambiguos en términos de su temporalidad, pues en ellos se confunde fácilmente el acto de reiniciar con lo que ya se está reiniciando. Son límite y limen, y, como tal, engullen pasado, presente y futuro. Este libro se ha escrito desde el reset de forma coral, pues incorpora 48 reflexiones elaboradas durante el punto álgido de la pandemia, entre el 14 de abril y el 11 de mayo de 2020, en diferentes países.
Subjectivities and Afflictions in Medical Anthropology
This book addresses through an international lens the experiences of illness, the challenges of care, the politics and biopolitics of health and the ethical dilemmas related to subjectivity and afflictions in current medical care. In an era of biomedical technology and life-prolonging treatments, taking into account the different subjective experiences of illness and suffering is imperative, as is analysing the extent to which different healthcare policies and services are sensitive to the voice and experience of those afflicted. This book is a unique international contribution on subjectivities and afflictions from a medical anthropology perspective. It is significant reading for health professionals and researchers working in medical anthropology, health sociology, cultural psychiatry, and social medicine, among other fields.
What's Behind The Symptom?
This book addresses the traditional perception of symptoms and whether they are physical signs of illness or symbolic and cultural forms of expression. The research presented here examines contemporary psychiatric knowledge, medical anthropology, and the fields of psychiatry/psychology to find answers regarding the interpretation of symptoms. This book also offers critical analyses of Freud, Kraepelin, Foucault, Barthes and Peirce, among others, as part of its critical framework.
Diagnostic Fluidity
Diagnostic procedures are emblematic of medical work. Scholars in the field of social studies of medicine identify diverse dimensions of diagnosis that point to controversies, processual qualities and contested evidence. In this anthology, diagnostic fluidity is seen to permeate diagnostic work in a wide range of contexts, from medical interactions in the clinic, domestic settings and other relations of affective work, to organizational structures, and in historical developments. The contributors demonstrate, each in their own way, how different agents ‘do diagnosis’, highlighting the multi-faceted elements of uncertainty and mutability integral to diagnostic work. At the same time, the contributors also show how in ‘doing diagnosis’ enactments of subjectivities, representations of cultural imaginaries, bodily processes, and socio-cultural changes contribute to configuring diagnostic fluidity in significant ways.
Evidencias y narrativas en la atención sanitaria
Este libro es el resultado de una reflexión colectiva en el marco del X Coloquio REDAM (Red de Antropología Médica) que, bajo el título "De la evidencia a la narrativa en la atención sanitaria: biopoder y relatos de aflicción", se realizó en junio de 2013 en Tarragona. El objetivo de este encuentro fue analizar tanto las “narrativas de la evidencia”, entendidas como estrategias de construcción de la prueba en biomedicina, como la “evidencia de las narrativas”, entendida como constatación de que aquello que está o debería estar en juego en la atención sanitaria es principalmente la enfermedad como forma de sufrimiento. El libro recoge aportaciones de más de veinte autores nacionales e internacionales que inciden de forma polifónica en la construcción de una perspectiva antropológica de los sistemas médicos y de las aflicciones humanas.
Worlds of Psychotic People
Gives insight into the daily interactions of therapists and patients - exchanges which are usually kept hidden from the public Suitable both for interested outsiders and for healthcare professionals wishing to think about their career area Has chapters on some common aspects of mental illness - hiding in talk, living in two worlds, alienation, life and death terrors - asking how these are handled in clinical practice
Daughters of Hariti
Hariti is the ancient Indian goddess of childbirth and women healers, known at one time throughout South and Southeast Asia from India to Nepal and Bali. Daughters of Hariti looks at her 'daughters' today, female midwives and healers in many different cultures across the region. It also traces the transformation of childbirth in these cultures under the impact of Western biomedical technology, national and international health policies and the wider factors of social and economic change. The authors ask what can be done to improve the high rates of maternal and infant deaths and illnesses still associated with childbirth in most societies in this area and whether the wholesale replacement of indigenous knowledge by Western biomedical technology is necessarily a good thing.
The Aesthetics of Disengagement
Reveals the artistic subjectivity of the scientific notion of depression.
