Readership: Social anthropologists, medical anthropologists, those concerned with the social aspects of medical care, primary health care and development, especially in the Third World. General readers interested in the human side of medical problems and cases.
Gilbert Lewis, Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Cambridge University
"A Failure of Treatment is a splendid monograph and a good prescription for the medical anthropologists who are least likely to read it" - Journal of the Royal Anthropolgical Institute
The ethnography of an illness Arrival The people in a hamlet: Watalu Paths and gardens A question of marriage and a fall The hunting in July and another fall At the health centre The perception of his illness The opening of Malyi Contrasts of pace: acute and chronic Imagery without influence Failure yet belief Losing hope The death of Dauwaras The period of mourning Aftermath
