Knowledge, power, and practice : the anthropology of medicine and everyday life / edited by Shirley Lindenbaum and Margaret Lock.

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1993], ©1993.

xv, 428 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Traditional birth attendants in rural North India : the social organization of childbearing / Roger Jeffery and Patricia M. Jeffery -- Analysis of a dialogue on risks in childbirth : clinicians, epidemiologists, and Inuit women / Patricia A. Kaufert and John O'Neil -- Accounting for amniocentesis / Rayna Rapp -- "Learning medicine" : the constructing of medical knowledge at Harvard Medical School / Byron J. Good and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good -- A description of how ideology shapes knowledge of a mental disorder (posttraumatic stress disorder) / Allan Young -- The shape of action : practice in public psychiatry / Lorna Amarasingham Rhodes -- Lay medical knowledge in an African context / Tola Olu Pearce -- Biomedical psychiatry as an object for a critical medical anthropology / Horacioa Fabrega, Jr

(cont.) Double standards of treatment evaluation / Gilbert Lewis -- Risk : anthropological and epidemiological narratives of prevention / Ronald Frankenberg -- Identity, disability, and schizophrenia : the problem of chronicity / Sue E. Estroff -- Social aspects of chagas disease / Roberto Briceñ-León -- The diseased heart of Africa : medicine, colonialism and the black body / Jean Comaroff -- The politics of mid-life and menopause : ideologies for the second sex on North America and Japan / Margaret Lock -- The biopolitics of postmodern bodies : determinations of self in immune system discourse / Donna Haraway.

Includes bibliographical references and index