Received: from wjh.harvard.edu (wjh.harvard.edu [128.103.8.10]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.6/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with ESMTP id MAA05423 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 12:50:58 -0700 (MST) Received: from localhost (farquhar@localhost) by wjh.harvard.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA23074; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 14:50:48 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 14:50:45 -0500 (EST) From: Karen T Farquharson To: David Francis Mercer , socgrad@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Re:Medical Sociology Info In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello, I'm not sure that this will fit, but you might want to look at _Medicine, Rationality and Experience_, by Byron J. Good (Cambridge University Press 1994). He's an anthropologist and looks at how non-western medical systems are regarded as "belief" in the western biomedicine paradigm. He looks at several different cases, including medical education, a case study of an individual with TMJ disorder (chronic pain), and Islamic medicine. The book is highly theoretical, in an anthropological way, and has what I consider to be a very interesting discussion of belief. He also has some good references. Karen Farquharson On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, David Francis Mercer wrote: > Hello again. Not debating this time, I'm just looking for information. > Has anyone seen or heard of any theoretical works on the interaction (or > lack of same) between modern scientific medicine and alternative medical > technologies? Even general works on the collision of science and > pseudo-science would be helpful. I'm doing my thesis in the area of the > Sociology of Belief Systems, and the area of interaction between these > competing paradigms fascinates me. One of these days I'll join CSICOP or > something. In any case, any leads would be appreciated. My bookshelf is > already groaning under the strain, but, such is research life. Thanks in > advance for any help. > > David Mercer > Dept. of Sociology and Social Anthropology > Dalhousie University > Halifax, Nova Scotia > Canada >