{"product_id":"pandoras-box-gilbert-lewis-9781912808328","title":"Pandora's Box: Ethnography and the Comparison of Medical Beliefs: The 1979 Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures","description":"In this book, written between 1979 and 2020, Gilbert Lewis distills a lifetime of insights he garnered as a medical anthropologist. He asks: How do different cultures' beliefs about illness influence patients' abilities to heal? Despite the advances of Western medicine, what can it learn from non-Western societies that consider sickness and curing to be as much a matter of social relationships as biological states? What problems arise when one set of therapeutic practices displaces another? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Lewis compares Indigenous medical beliefs in New Guinea in 1968, when villagers were largely self-reliant, and in 1983, after they became dependent on Western medicine. He then widens his comparative scope by turning to West Africa and discussing a therapeutic community run by a prophet who heals the ill through confession and long-term residential care. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePandora's Box\u003c\/i\u003e began life with the prestigious Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures that Gilbert Lewis delivered in 1979 at the University of Rochester. He expanded them with materials gathered over the next forty years, completing the manuscript a few weeks before his death. Engagingly written, this book will inspire anthropologists, medical professionals, students, and curious readers to look with new eyes at current crises in world health.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gilbert Lewis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1912808323\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781912808328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hau\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 322\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.80w x 1.00d","brand":"Gilbert Lewis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988837859583,"sku":"9781912808328","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1f78a1c8-e464-48a6-84b9-a51647837c7b.jpg?v=1683296661","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pandoras-box-gilbert-lewis-9781912808328","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}