An edition of The Meaning of illness (1995)

The Meaning of illness

anthropology, history, and sociology

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The Meaning of illness
Marc Auge, Claudine Herzlich
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The Meaning of illness

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Harwood Academic Publishers
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Subjects

Social medicine, Diseases, Medical anthropology, Medicine, Social aspects, Philosophy, Health, Sick, psychology, Ethnology, Health attitudes, Social Medicine, Medical Sociology, Cultural Anthropology, Attitude to Health, Medical Philosophy, Santé, Philosophie, Médecine, Maladies, Aspect social, Médecine sociale, Sociologie médicale, Ethnologie, Attitudes à l'égard de la santé
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2013, Taylor & Francis Group
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Cover of: Meaning of Illness
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2013, Taylor & Francis Group
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1995, Harwood Academic Publishers
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Table of Contents

Part I. Bodily ailments, lineage language. 1. Biological order, social order; illness, a primary form of event / M. Auge. 2. The need for meaning, the explanantion of ill fortune: the Senufo / N. Sindzingre. 3. Sterility, aridity, drought: some invariants of symbolic thought / F. Heritier. 4. History of diseases, history and disease: Africa / E. M'Bokolo
Part II. From the right to illness to the duty to be healthy: the industrial society. 5. Modern medicine and the quest for meaning: illness as a social signifier / C. Herzlich. 6. The social meanings of health: Paris, the Essonne and the Herault / J. Pierret. 7. From healing to salvation: the neo-rural apocalyptic communities in France / D. Leger

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Translation of: Le sens du mal

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Australia, United States
Series
Social orders -- v. 5

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Library of Congress
, R723 .S4613 1995eb

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vii, 231 p. :
Number of pages
231

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OL16944107M
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3718652072
OCLC/WorldCat
853240005

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