| 書目名稱 | Institutionalizing Illness Narratives |
| 副標題 | Discourses on Fever |
| 編輯 | Mathew George |
| 視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/469/468018/468018.mp4 |
| 概述 | Puts forth a theoretical proposition to examine medical care not only as an issue of provisioning but also of practice.Demonstrates the use of multi-site ethnography in understanding societal discours |
| 圖書封面 |  |
| 描述 | .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 the history of medicine. This association between fevers and medicine is as relevant today, as this in-depth study of fever care reveals. Acknowledging the central role of health institutions in creating and propagating notions about illness in society, the author examines fever care through a study of hospitals.??. .The study examines various discourses on fevers prevalent in the southern state of Kerala, which influence policy and programmatic dimensions of the state health services system. Fever care implies those aspects related to provisioning and cost involved among public and private sector hospitals. A second and more important dimension of this book is a critique of the culture of biomedical practice, informed by the social constructivist framework and approaches in the field of science studies. Overall, the book studies the processes by which physical symptoms like fever are tr |
| 出版日期 | Book 2017 |
| 關鍵詞 | fever care in allopathic hospitals; history of fevers; culture of fever care; Medicalization of fever; I |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1905-0 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-981-10-9473-6 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-981-10-1905-0 |
| copyright | Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2017 |
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