Medicine, rationality, and experience : an anthropological perspective

Medical anthropology and the problem of belief ; Illness representations in medical anthropology : a reading of the field ; How medicine constructs its objects ; Semiotics and the study of medical reality ; The body, illness experience, and the lifeworld : a phenomenological account of chronic pain ; The narrative representation of illness ; Aesthetics, rationality, and medical anthropology

This book seeks to show how physicians and healers enter and inhabit distinctive worlds of meaning and experience. The author argues that moral and aesthetic considerations are present in routine medical practice as in other forms of healing.