Institutionalizing Illness Narratives Discourses on Fever and Care from Southern India
This book is an ethnographic work that uses a critical medical anthropology approach to examine the concept of fever care in the context of southern India. Through a study of fevers, the study provides a critical overview to medical practice itself, as it is said that the history of fevers is also t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore
Springer Nature Singapore
2017, 2017
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2017 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Interpreting Illness, Disease, Medicine and Medical Care
- Chapter 2. Historical Discourses on Fevers
- Chapter 3. Institutionalizing Fever Epidemics and Fever Care in Contemporary Kerala
- Chapter 4. Fear of Fevers: Risk, Medicalisation and Provisioning
- Chapter 5. Biomedicine Examined: Interpreting Culture of Fever Care. - Chapter 6. Voice of Illness and Voice of Medicine in Doctor-Patient Interaction
- Chapter 7. Fever talk as sub-culture of Fever care