How Long to Read Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture

How Long Does it Take to Read Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 36 minutes to read Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture by Arthur Kleinman

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Description

From the Preface, by Arthur Kleinman:Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture presents a theoretical framework for studying the relationship between medicine, psychiatry, and culture. That framework is principally illustrated by materials gathered in field research in Taiwan and, to a lesser extent, from materials gathered in similar research in Boston. The reader will find this book contains a dialectical tension between two reciprocally related orientations: it is both a cross-cultural (largely anthropological) perspective on the essential components of clinical care and a clinical perspective on anthropological studies of medicine and psychiatry. That dialectic is embodied in my own academic training and professional life, so that this book is a personal statement. I am a psychiatrist trained in anthropology. I have worked in library, field, and clinic on problems concerning medicine and psychiatry in Chinese culture. I teach cross-cultural psychiatry and medical anthropology, but I also practice and teach consultation psychiatry and take a clinical approach to my major cross-cultural teaching and research involvements. The theoretical framework elaborated in this book has been applied to all of those areas; in turn, they are used to illustrate the theory. Both the theory and its application embody the same dialectic. The purpose of this book is to advance both poles of that dialectic: to demonstrate the critical role of social science (especially anthropology and cross-cultural studies) in clinical medicine and psychiatry and to encourage study of clinical problems by anthropologists and other investigators involved in cross-cultural research.

How long is Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture?

Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture by Arthur Kleinman is 446 pages long, and a total of 114,176 words.

This makes it 151% the length of the average book. It also has 140% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 23 minutes to read Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture aloud.

What Reading Level is Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture?

Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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