Every society recognizes expertise, and anthropologists have long documented the
culturally and historically specific practices that constitute it. The anthropology of expertise …

Discourse plays an important role in medicine, and medical discourse in the broadest sense
(discourse in and about healing, curing, or therapy; expressions of suffering; and relevant …

Biomedicine is often thought to provide a scientific account of the human body and of illness.
In this view, non-Western and folk medical systems are regarded as systems of'belief'and …

Scripting Addiction takes readers into the highly ritualized world of mainstream American
addiction treatment. It is a world where clinical practitioners evaluate how drug users speak …

In Responsibility and evidence in oral discourse twelve prominent linguists and linguistic
anthropologists examine'responsibility','authority', and'knowledge': central, but problematic …

Culture/Place/Health is the first exploration of cultural-geographical health research for a
decade, drawing on contemporary research undertaken by geographers and other social …

The perceptions of American doctors about their practice regarding truth-telling in the care of
dying patients were examined based on semi-structured interviews with 32 physicians in a …

First published in 1997, this volume presents a critical analysis of how social work is
formulated in everyday practice. Christopher Hall sets the task of exploring how social …

AIDS researchers and policy makers have often employed the concept of 'culture'to
characterize 'high risk groups' and explain why members of these groups continue to …

This article is positioned at the intersection of linguistic, medical, and psychological
anthropology and reviews scholarship on the communicative processes that constitute …