{"product_id":"writing-at-the-margin-arthur-kleinman-9780520209657","title":"Writing at the Margin: Discourse Between Anthro \u0026 Medicine","description":"One of the most influential and creative scholars in medical anthropology takes stock of his recent intellectual odysseys in this collection of essays. Arthur Kleinman, an anthropologist and psychiatrist who has studied in Taiwan, China, and North America since 1968, draws upon his bicultural, multidisciplinary background to propose alternative strategies for thinking about how, in the postmodern world, the social and medical relate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWriting at the Margin\u003c\/i\u003e explores the border between medical and social problems, the boundary between health and social change. Kleinman studies the body as the mediator between individual and collective experience, finding that many health problems-for example the trauma of violence or depression in the course of chronic pain-are less individual medical problems than interpersonal experiences of social suffering. He argues for an ethnographic approach to moral practice in medicine, one that embraces the infrapolitical context of illness, the responses to it, the social institutions relating to it, and the way it is configured in medical ethics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreviously published in various journals, these essays have been revised, updated, and brought together with an introduction, an essay on violence and the politics of post-traumatic stress disorder, and a new chapter that examines the contemporary ethnographic literature of medical anthropology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Arthur Kleinman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520209656\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520209657\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.93h x 6.07w x 0.89d","brand":"Arthur Kleinman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44181078343935,"sku":"9780520209657","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a1804bd8-77e4-4d4f-9a19-848ea173708d.jpg?v=1690258436","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/writing-at-the-margin-arthur-kleinman-9780520209657","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}