Anthropologies of Medicine: A Colloquium on West European and North American Perspectives

About the Origins of this Volume.- Section 1: Culture-Specific Psychosomatic Paradigms.- Are functional syndromes culture-bound?.- The Medical Anthropology of Viktor von Weizsäcker in the Present Clinical Context of Heidelberg.- Ethnomedical Fundaments in the Work of Viktor von Weizsäcker.- Phenomenology of the Body: The Subject-Object Problem in Psychosomatic Medicine and the Role of traditional Medical Systems herein.- Memory within the Body: Women’s Narrative and Identity in a Southern Italian Village.- Section 2: Sociosomatics and Ethnicity.- The Symbolic and the Physiological: Epigastric Patients in Family Medicine in Flanders.- Nerves and Nostalgia: Greek-Canadian Immigrants and Medical Care in Québec.- The Development and Change of Health Research among Migrant Workers in West-Germany: Ideologies and Practice between 1956 and 1986.- Section 3: Local Cultures of Biomedicine.- The Practice of Biomedicine and the Discourse on Hope: A Preliminary Investigation into the Culture of American Oncology.- Culture, Cancer, and Communication in Italy.- Images and Interpretations of Severe Illness: Ethnological Aspects of Dealing with Cancer.- Emil Kraepelin and the Origins of American Psychiatric Diagnosis.- Section 4: From Patients’ Complaints to Cultural Narrative.- The Love-Lorn Consumptive: South Asian Ethnography and the Psychosomatic Paradigm.- Traditional European and Chinese Definitions of Illness and Medical Practice.- Section 5: Medical Systems and Cultural Change: An Analysis of Facts and Theories.- The Hierarchies of Medicines: A Contextual Analysis of Schismogenic Processes.- Cultural Constructivism: Sickness Histories and the Understanding of Ethnomedicines beyond Critical Medical Anthropologies.- Holistic Health and a Changing Western World View.- Listof Contributors.