Knowledge, Power, and Practice

Preface

Part One
The Cultural Construction of Childbirth
Introduction to Part One
1 Traditional Birth Attendants in Rural North India: The
Social Organization of Childbearing
Roger Jeffery and Patricia M. Jeffery
2 Analysis of a Dialogue on Risks in Childbirth:
Clinicians, Epidemiologists, and Inuit Women
Patricia A. Kaufert and John O'Neil
3 Accounting for Amniocentesis
Rayna Rapp

Part Two
The Production of Medical Knowledge
Introduction to Part Two
4 "Learning Medicine": The Constructing of Medical
Knowledge at Harvard Medical School
Byron J. Good and
Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good
5 A Description of How Ideology Shapes Knowledge of a
Mental Disorder (Posttraumatic Stress Disorder)
Allan Young
6 The Shape of Action: Practice in Public Psychiatry
Lorna Amarasingham Rhodes

Part Three
Contested Knowledge and Modes of Understanding
Introduction to Part Three
7 Lay Medical Knowledge in an African Context
Tola Olu Pearce
8 Biomedical Psychiatry as an Object for a Critical
Medical Anthropology
Horacio Fabrega, Jr.
9 Double Standards of Treatment Evaluation
Gilbert Lewis
10 Risk: Anthropological and Epidemiological Narratives
of Prevention
Ronald Frankenberg

Part Four
Constructing the Illness Experience
Introduction to Part Four
11 Identity, Disability, and Schizophrenia: The Problem of
Chronicity
Sue E. Estroff
12 Social Aspects of Chagas Disease
Roberto Briceflo-Leon

Part Five
Body Politics-Past and Present
Introduction to Part Five
13 The Diseased Heart of Africa: Medicine, Colonialism,
and the Black Body
Jean Comaroff
14 The Politics of Mid-Life and Menopause: Ideologies for
the Second Sex in North America and Japan
Margaret Lock
15 The Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies: Determinations
of Self in Immune System Discourse
Donna Haraway

Contributors
Index