Download or read book Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture written by Arthur Kleinman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kleinman, a psychiatrist, trained in anthropology, reports on his studies of health care in Taiwan. He describes his observations of clinical interviews between various medical practitioner, folk-healers, temple medicine men, and Chinese-style and Western-style physicians and their patients. He stress the importance of adopting the proper cultural perspective, making ones interpretations within that framework.