Byron Good
Biographic Data
| ID | 3639207 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Byron Good |
| GIVEN NAMES | Byron |
| FAMILY NAME | Good |
| SIGNATURE | GOOD B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 487 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
SPA Lifetime Achievement Awardee
Culture and PTSD
Since the 1970s, understanding of the effects of trauma, including flashbacks and withdrawal, has become widespread in the United States. As a result Americans can now claim that the phrase posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is familiar even if the American Psychiatric Association's criteria for diagnosis are not. As embedded as these ideas now are in the American mindset, however, they are more widely applicable, this volume attempts to show, …
Belief, Anthropology of
What matters most
A Reader in Medical Anthropology
Early Intervention in Psychosis
Introduction
Culture and stigma
Subjectivity
This innovative volume is an extended intellectual conversation about the ways personal lives are being undone and remade today. Examining the ethnography of the modern subject, this preeminent group of scholars probes the continuity and diversity of modes of personhood across a range of Western and non-Western societies. Contributors consider what happens to individual subjectivity when stable or imagined environments such as nations and communi…
Culture, Illness, and Care
Major health care problems such as patient dissatisfaction, inequity of access to care, and spiraling costs no longer seem amenable to traditional biomedical solutions. Concepts derived from anthropologic and cross-cultural research may provide an alternative framework for identifying issues that require resolution. A limited set of such concepts is described and illustrated, including a fundamental distinction between disease and illness, and th…
World Mental Health
This book describes the burden of mental, behavioural, and social health problems in low-income countries, illuminates the reasons for the substantial morbidity rates, assesses current efforts to cope with these conditions, and points to ways to alleviate and, where feasible, prevent them. It provides a framework for international policy-makers to develop a concrete agenda for action and for further research on mental and social health.
A Methodology for Cross-cultural Ethnomedical Research [and Comments and Reply]
Culture and Depression
Culture and stigma
Subjectivity
This innovative volume is an extended intellectual conversation about the ways personal lives are being undone and remade today. Examining the ethnography of the modern subject, this preeminent group of scholars probes the continuity and diversity of modes of personhood across a range of Western and non-Western societies. Contributors consider what happens to individual subjectivity when stable or imagined environments such as nations and communi…
A Methodology for Cross-cultural Ethnomedical Research [and Comments and Reply]
What matters most
A Reader in Medical Anthropology
Culture and Depression
A Methodology for Cross-cultural Ethnomedical Research [and Comments and Reply]
World Mental Health
This book describes the burden of mental, behavioural, and social health problems in low-income countries, illuminates the reasons for the substantial morbidity rates, assesses current efforts to cope with these conditions, and points to ways to alleviate and, where feasible, prevent them. It provides a framework for international policy-makers to develop a concrete agenda for action and for further research on mental and social health.
Culture, Illness, and Care
Major health care problems such as patient dissatisfaction, inequity of access to care, and spiraling costs no longer seem amenable to traditional biomedical solutions. Concepts derived from anthropologic and cross-cultural research may provide an alternative framework for identifying issues that require resolution. A limited set of such concepts is described and illustrated, including a fundamental distinction between disease and illness, and th…
Introduction
Culture and stigma
Subjectivity
This innovative volume is an extended intellectual conversation about the ways personal lives are being undone and remade today. Examining the ethnography of the modern subject, this preeminent group of scholars probes the continuity and diversity of modes of personhood across a range of Western and non-Western societies. Contributors consider what happens to individual subjectivity when stable or imagined environments such as nations and communi…
Early Intervention in Psychosis
A Reader in Medical Anthropology
What matters most
Belief, Anthropology of
Culture and PTSD
Since the 1970s, understanding of the effects of trauma, including flashbacks and withdrawal, has become widespread in the United States. As a result Americans can now claim that the phrase posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is familiar even if the American Psychiatric Association's criteria for diagnosis are not. As embedded as these ideas now are in the American mindset, however, they are more widely applicable, this volume attempts to show, …
SPA Lifetime Achievement Awardee
Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Mental Health Treatment and Access (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Cultural Competency in Health Care (3 works) · Medicine (3 works)