About the origins of this volume

Beatrix Pfleiderer

7-9

Are functional syndromes culture-bound?

Thure von Uexküll

13-22

The medical anthropology of Viktor Von Weizsäcker in the present clinical context in heidelberg

Peter Hahn

23-35

Ethnomedical fundaments in the work of Viktor Von Weizsäcker

Wolfgang Jacob

37-42

Phenomenology of the body

Thomas Ots

43-58

Memory within the body

Mariella Pandolfi

59-65

The symbolic and the physiological

René Devisch

69-86

Nerves and nostalgia

Margaret Lock

87-103

The development and change of health research among migrant workers in West-Germany

Beatrix Pfleiderer

105-118

The practice of biomedicine and the discourse on hope

Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good

121-135

Culture, cancer, and communication in Italy

Deborah R. Gordon

137-156

Images and interpretations of severe illness

ethnological aspects of dealing with cancer

Jutta Dornheim

157-173

Emil Kraepelin and the origins of American psychiatric diagnosis

Allan Young

175-181

The love-lorn consumptive

South Asian ethnography and the psychosomatic paradigm

Francis Zimmermann

185-195

Traditional European and chinese definitions of illness and medical practice

Paul U. Unschuld

197-204

The hierarchies of medicines

Gilles Bibeau

207-219

Cultural constructivism

sickness histories and the understanding of ethnomedicines beyond critical medical anthropologies

Atwood D. Gaines

221-258

Holistic health and a changing Western world view

Carol P. MacCormack

259-273