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The discourse on stress and the reproduction of conventional knowledge
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A framework emphasizing the importance of utility and context to knowledge producers, particularly the researchers' informants, and the social determinants of knowledge is adopted.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine. Part B: Medical Anthropology.The article was published on 1980-08-01. It has received 176 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social relation & Social order.read more
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The genesis of chronic illness: narrative re-construction.
TL;DR: The way in which people's beliefs about the aetiology of their particular affliction (arthritis) need to be understood as part of a more comprehensive imaginative enterprise which is referred to as narrative reconstruction is demonstrated.
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Cultivating the Body: Anthropology and Epistemologies of Bodily Practice and Knowledge
TL;DR: The body's explicit appearance has been sporadic throughout the history of the discipline of social and cultural anthropology as discussed by the authors, and there has been no substantial review of research in connection with an anthropology of the body per se.
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The Anthropologies of Illness and Sickness
TL;DR: The writers I have identified with the anthropology of sickness perspective are oriented to a point beyond the healing process, the inner logic of illness, and the consciousness of the individual.
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Tenacious Assumptions in Western Medicine
TL;DR: The biological reductionism by which modern medicine is frequently characterized is more theoretical than actual; in its effects, biomedicine speaks beyond its explicit reductionist reference through implicit ways it teaches us to interpret ourselves, our world, and the rela-tionships between humans, nature, self, and society.
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From categories to contexts: a decade of the 'new cross-cultural psychiatry'.
TL;DR: Over the last ten years a new approach to psychiatric knowledge has developed under the influence of social anthropology, its origins, assumptions, methods, achievements, and limitations are reviewed.
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Outline of a Theory of Practice
TL;DR: Bourdieu as mentioned in this paper develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of the methods and postures of social science and a general account of how human action should be understood.
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The social readjustment rating scale
Thomas H. Holmes,Richard H. Rahe +1 more
TL;DR: This report defines a method which achieves etiologic significance as a necessary but not sufficient cause of illness and accounts in part for the time of onset of disease and provides a quantitative basis for new epidemiological studies of diseases.
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The structure of coping.
TL;DR: Results indicate that individuals' coping interventions are most effective when dealing with problems within the close interpersonal role areas of marriage and child-rearing and least effective when deals with the more impersonal problems found in occupation.
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The Stress of Life
TL;DR: In this paper, the discovery of stress, the dissection of stress the disease of adaptation sketch for a unified theory implications and applications is described, and the authors propose a unified framework for adaptation.