ISBN:
9783718652075
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (240 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The Meaning of Illness
DDC:
306.4/61
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book is based on collective research carried out during the 1980s. This edition appears ten years after the original publication in French. Since then we have experienced many changes. In the late decade, disciplines have changed, as have the societies being researched. The outbreak of AIDS in Africa and the industrial world is not the least of these major and influential changes. The reader today will be sensitive to these changes and this research maintains its value as an intellectual endeavour and a useful model
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table ofContents; Social Orders; Foreword; Introduction; Notes; Part I: Bodily Ailments, Lineage Language; 1.Biological order, social order; illness, a primary form of event; I. Illness as an ElementalForm; Towards a restatement of the problem; II.The Social Dimension of Illness: The Example of Lineal Societies; III.Closed Coherence, Virtual Coherence; Notes; 2. The need for meaning, the explanation of ill fortune: the Senufo; I.Anthropological Causality; II.Explaining Illness: The Senufo Experience; 1. Possible A Priori Causality
Description / Table of Contents:
2. The Two Other Registers of Coherence: Effective Interpretationof Divination and TherapyNotes; 3. Sterility, aridity, drought: some invariants of symbolic thought; Notes; 4. History of diseases, history and disease: Africa; Notes; Part II: From the Right to Illness tothe Duty to be Healthy: The Industrial Society; 5. Modern medicine and the quest for meaning: illness as a social signifier; IThe Medical Construction of Illness; IIIllness as a Signifier; Notes; 6. The social meanings of health: Paris, the Essonne and the Herault; IMedicine: Between Illness and Health
Description / Table of Contents:
IIThe Different Discursive Uses of Health and their Social MeaningHealth is: not being ill ...; Health is the most important thing ...; Health depends on ...; Health, hospitals, nurseries?; Conclusion; Health-illness; Health-instrument; Health-product; Health-institutions; Notes; 7. From healing to salvation: the neo-rural apocalyptic communities in France; I Disaster, Illness and Apocalypse; IIHealing and Return to Nature; III Anti-Medical and Social Protestation; IV From Healing to Salvation/From Ecological Apocalypse to Religious Apocalypse; Notes; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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