Publication Date: June 1, 2000 | ISBN-10: 0198234090 | ISBN-13: 978-0198234098
This book is a study of a serious illness in a New Guinea village. It records the failure of local treatments and Western medicine, and of a communal ritual to bring a spirit to heal a man; it also shows how cultural beliefs and assumptions may influence events. The author, an anthropologist and medical doctor, focuses on how those closely involved maintained their hope and beliefs, and how they faced the realization of failure.
Review
A Failure of Treatment is a splendid monograph and a good prescription for the medical anthropologists who are least likely to read it Journal of the Royal Anthropolgical Institute
About the Author
Gilbert Lewis is at Cambridge University.
- Series: Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
- Paperback: 296 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (June 1, 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0198234090
- ISBN-13: 978-0198234098
