Howard Brody's "The Social Power Of Expert Healers" And Nancy Scheper-Hughes' "The Anthropological Looking Glass": Analysis And Interpretation

Abstract: 5 pages in length. The extent to which Dr. Howard Brody asserts the unmitigated need for expert healers to maintain social power, he also advocates that that power be shared within the context of the common man. To Brody, information is truly the healing agent, even above and beyond the overconfident attitude of old medicine. This approach clearly correlates with some of Nancy Scheper-Hughes' theories of social power, while at the same time deviating from her more native-specific findings. No bibliography.

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Catagory: Race, Politics & Society

Subcatagory: Sociology, Social Work, & Counseling

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