Managing Uncertainty

297,50 kr
558
ISBN
9788772899633
The overall focus of this book is the ways humans deal with life conditions, with destiny, uncertainty and misfortune - how we try to control the risks of living through medicines, technologies and magic.
When dealing with questions of health and illness rational solutions and meaningful explanations may be hard to find, and treatment efforts are often guided just as much by hope as by rational choice. Evaluating the risks of illness is just one of a number of ways in which human beings attempt to exert some sense of control over their lives. New methods of testing for ills and new developments in, for example, genetic screening and in vitro fertilisation combined with the growing demands of well-informed patients seem to have turned concern from the actual problems of specific diseases toward controlling life and the risks of living in general. The chapters of this book reflect a common effort to transgress the limits of the medical by drawing on a fundamental concern with the logic of social and cultural practice. The book represents a de-medicalization of medical anthropology and a return to some of the classic themes in anthropology but with a different approach, emphasizing subjectivity, intentionality and agency.
Specifikationer
Undertitel Ethnographic Studies of Illness, Risk and the Struggle for control
Forlag Museum Tusculanum
Indbinding Hæftet
Varegruppe Kulturhistorie, etnografi
Ekspedition DBK
Udgivelsesdato 14. dec. 2004
Sideantal 287
Bredde 151
Højde 230
Dybde 21
Vægt 528
Første udgave 0
Oplagsdato 14. dec. 2004
Oplag 1
Udgave 1
Serie Critical anthropology., volume 2
ISBN-13 9788772899633
ISBN-10 8772899638
EAN 9788772899633
Sprog eng
Orignalsprog dan
Illustreret i farver/sh Nej
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