On knowing and not knowing in the anthropology of medicine / edited by Roland Littlewood.

Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, [2007], ©2007.

xvii, 225 pages ; 23 cm

The importance of knowing about not knowing / Murray Last -- Coconuts and syphilis : an essay in overinterpretation / Roland Littlewood -- On "medical system" and questions in fieldwork / Gilbert Lewis -- Explanatory models and oversystematization in medical anthropology / Simon Dein -- The ambivalence of integrative medicine / Guido Giarelli -- Not knowing about defecation / Sjaak van der Geest -- Christianity, tradition, AIDS, and pornography : knowing sex in western Kenya / P. Wenzel Geissler and Ruth J. Prince -- Feeling and borderlinking in Yaka healing arts / Ren Devisch -- On knowing and not knowing in Latvian psychiatric consultations / Vieda Skultans -- Farewell to fieldwork? : constraints in anthropological research in violent situations / Els van Dongen -- Neutralizing the young : the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and youth / Pamela Reynolds -- In touch without touching : Islam and healing / David Parkin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.