Some Issues for a Comparative Study of Medical Healing

Leslie, C. : (ed.). Toward a Comparative Study of Asian Medical Systems. Berkeley, published in 1972.

Litman, T.J. and Robins, L. : 'Comparative analysis of health care systems-a socio-political approach". Soc. Sci. Med., 1971, 5, 573.

Poynter , F. N. L. : (ed.). Medicine and Culture. London, 1969.

Kleinman, A. M. : "Toward a comparative study of medical systems: An integrated approach to the study of medicine and culture ". To be published.

Dunn, F.L. : "Traditional Asian medicine and cosmopolitan medicine as adaptive systems ". In Leslie : op. cit

Berger, P. and Luckmann, T. : The Social Construction of Reality. New York, 1967.

Holzner, B. : Reality Construction in Society. Cambridge, 1968.

Freidson, E. : Profession of Medicine: A Study of the Sociology of Applied Knowledge. New York, 1970.

Kleinman, A.M. : "A note on a central problem in the philosophy of medicine: Medicine's symbolic reality". Inquiry. (Oslo), to be published.

Schmale, A.H. et. al.: "Current concepts of psychosomatic medicine". In Hil, O. W. : (ed.). Modem Trends in Psychosomatic Medicine II. New York, 1970, pp. 6-9.

Werner, H. and Kaplan, B. : Symbol Formation. New York, 1967, pp. 15-54.

Platonov, K.I. : The Word as a Physiological and Therapeutic Factor. Moscow , 1959, pp. 16-38.

Mauss, M. : "Les techniques du corps". In his Sociologie et Anthropologie. Paris, 1950.

Kaplan, B. and Johnson, D. : "The social meaning of Navajo psychopathology and psychotherapy". In Kiev, A. : (ed.). Magic, Faith, and Healing. New York, 1964.

Kiev, A. : Curanderismo, Mexican-American Folk Psychiatry. New York , 1968. pp. 153-166, 169.

Foucault, M. : Madness and Civilisation. New York, 1965.

Gussow, Z. and Tracy, G.S. : "Stigma and the leprosy phenomenon: The social history of a disease in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Bull. Hist. Med. , 1970, 44 425.

Opler, M.E. : "The cultural definition of illness in village India". Hum. Org., 1963, 22, 82.

Zola, I.K. : "Culture and symptoms". Am. Soc. Rev., 1966, 31, 615.

Katz, A.H. : "The social causes of disease". In Dreitzel, H. P. : (ed.). The Social Organisation of Health . New York, 1971.

Geertz, H. : "Latah in Java". Indonesia, 1968, 5, 98.

Newman P. : " 'Wildman' behaviour in a New Guinea highlands community". Am. Anthrop. 1964, 66, 1.

Tseng, W.S. and Hsu, J. : "Chinese culture, personality formation and mental illness". Int. J. Soc. Psychiatr., 1969, 16, 5.

Yap, P.M. : "Mental diseases peculiar to certain cultures: A survey of comparative psychiatry". J. Ment. Sci., 1951, 407, 313.

Horton, R. : "African traditional thought and Western science I". Africa, 1967, 37, 50.

Alland, A. : Adaptation in Cultural Evolution: An Approach to Medical Anthropology. New York, 1970.

Frank, J. : Persuasion and Healing: A Comparative Study of Psychotherapy. Baltimore, 1961.

Berger, P. : The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion. New York, 1967, pp. 3-28.

Douglas, M. : "The healing rite". Man, 1970, 5, 302.

Lain Entralgo, P. : The Therapy of the Word in Classical Antiquity (translated by Rather, L. J.). New Haven, 1970.

Turner, V. : The Forest of Symbols. Ithaca, 1967.

Yalman, N. : "The structure of Sinhalese healing rituals". J. Asian St., 1964, 23, 115.

Tambiah, S.J. : "The magical power of words". Man, 1968, 3, 175.

Tseng, W.S. : "Psychiatric Study of Shamanism in Taiwan". Arch. Gen. Psychiat., to be published.

Ingham, J. : "On Mexican folk medicine". Am. Anthrop., 1970, 72, 76.

Nash, J. : "The logic of behaviour: Curing in a Maya indian town". Hum. Org., 1967, 26, 132.

Spiro, M.E. : Burmese Supernaturalism: A Study in the Explanation and Reduction of Suffering . Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1967.

Turner , op. cit

Horton , op. cit

Lambo, T.A. : "Traditional African cultures and Western medicine". In Poynter , op. cit

Ricoeur, P. : "The model of the text: meaningful action considered as a text". Soc. Res., 1971, 38, 529.

Adair, J. and Deuschle, K. : The Peopk's Health: Medicine and Anthropology in a Navajo Community. New York, 1970.

Croizier, R.C. : Traditional Medicine in Modern China. Cambridge, Mass. , 1968.

Horn, J. : 'Away with all pests ...' an English Surgeon in People's China. London, 1969.

Miure, M. and Usa, S. : ' A psychotherapy of neurosis: Morita therapy". Psycbologia , 1970 15 18.

Munn, N. : "The Effectiveness of Symbols". In Forms of Symbolic Action (Proceedings of the Annual Spring Meeting of the American Ethnological Society). Seattle, 1969 .