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Fadiman, Anne. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. New York: The Noonday Press, 1997.
Farmer, Paul. AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
Kleinman, Arthur. The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing & the Human Condition. New York: Basic Books, 1988.
Luhrmann, T.M. Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

ADDITIONAL READINGS

Blumhagen, Dan. "The Doctor's White Coat: The Image of the Physician in Modern America." In Annals of Internal Medicine, 1979, 230-236. Reader.
Brown, Michael. "Shamanism and its Discontents." In Medical Anthropological Quarterly 2, 2 (1988): 102-120.
Cussins, Charis. "Producing Reproduction: Techniques of Normalization and Naturalization in Infertility Clinics." In Reproducing Reproduction: Kinship, Power, and Technological Innovation. Edited by Franklin and Ragoné. 1998, 66-101.
Farmer, Paul. "Bad Blood, Spoiled Milk: Bodily Fluids as Moral Barometers in Rural Haiti." In American Ethnologist 15, 1(1988): 63-83.
Favret-Saada, Jeanne. "Unbewitching as Therapy." In American Ethnologist 16, 1 (1989): 40-56.
Gordon, David Paul. "Hospital slang for Patients: Crocks, Gomers, Gorks, and Others." In Language in Society 12, (1983): 173-185. Reader.
Hahn, Robert. "A World of Internal Medicine: Portrait of an Internist." In Hahn. Sickness and Healing. 173-208.
___. "Between Two Worlds: Physicians as Patients." 234-261.
___. "Biomedicine as a Cultural System." In Hahn. Sickness and Healing. 131-172.
___. "Culture-Bound Syndromes Unbound." Reader.
___. "The Role of Society and Culture in Sickness and Healing." In Hahn. Sickness and Healing, 76-98.
___. "The Universe of Sickness." Reader, 13-56.
Katz, Pearl. "Ritual in the Operating Room." In Ethnology (1981) : 247-257. Reader.
Kirmayer, Laurence J. "Mind and Body as Metaphors: Hidden Values in Biomedicine." In Biomedicine Examined. Edited by M. Lock and D. Gordon. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1988, 57-93. Reader.
Lévi-Strauss, Claude. "The Effectiveness of Symbols." In C. Lévi-Strauss. Structural Anthropology. Translated by Claire Jacobson and Brooke Grundefest Schoepf. New York: Anchor, 1963, 181-201.
Martin, Emily. "Toward an Anthropology of Immunology: The Body as Nation State." In Medical Anthropology Quarterly 4, 4 (1990) : 410-426. Reader.
Medical Anthropology Quarterly (n.s.) 1: 6-41. Reader.
Miner, Horace. "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema." In William A. Lessa and Evon Z. Vogt. Reader in Comparative Religion: An Anthropological Approach. Harper & Row, 1956, 414-415.
Obeyesekere, Gananath. "Depression, Buddhism and the Work of Culture in Sri Lanka." In Kleinman and Good. Culture and Depression. Berkeley: U Calif., 1985, 134-152.
Ong, Aihwa. "The Production of Possession: Spirits and the Multinational Corporation in Malaysia." In American Ethnologist 15 (1987): 28-42.
Osherson, Samuel and Lorna AmaraSingham. "The Machine Metaphor in Medicine." In Mishler et al. (1981): 218-244.
Payer, Lynn. "Borderline Cases: Medical Practice and National Culture." In The Sciences, 1990: 285-288. Reader.
Rapp, Rayna. "Constructing Amniocentesis: Maternal and Medical Discourses." In Situated Lives: Gender and Culture in Everyday Life. Edited by Lamphere, Ragoné and Zavella, 1997, 128-141.
Rosenhan, David L. "On being sane in insane places." In Science 179, (1973): 250-58. Reader.
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy, Nancy, and Margaret Lock. "The Mindful Body: A Prolegomenon to Future Work." In Medical Anthropology (1987).
Taylor, Janelle S. "Image of Contradiction: Obstetrical Ultrasound in American Culture." In Reproducing Reproduction: Kinship, Power, and Tecnological Innovation. Edited by Franklin and Ragoné, 1998, 15-45.
Ware, Norma. "Suffering and the Social Construction of Illness: The Delegitimation of Illness Experience in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome." In Medical Anthropology Quarterly 6, 4 (1992): 347-361. Reader.
Waxler, Nancy. "Learning to be a leper: A Case Study in the Social Construction of Illness." In Mishler et al. (1981): 169-192. Reader.
Wikan, Unni. "Managing the Heart to Brighten Face and Soul: Emotions in Balinese Morality and Health Care." In American Ethnologist 16, 2 (1989): 294-312.

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