Doctors and Healers

* Contents* Editor's Note* 1. Towards a Scientific Psychopathology - Tobie Nathan* I. The Benefits of Folk Therapy* Scientific Therapy and Folk Therapy* Solitude* Diagnostics or Divination* Statistical Categories vs. Real Cultural Groups* The Construction of Truth* Risky Psychopathology* A Clinical Illustration* Continuation of the Consultation* II. Medicines in Non-Western Cultures* Prolegomena on Thought and Belief* The Idea of the Symbol* The White Man's Medicines* Thought is in Objects* Concepts of the Savage Mind* Active Objects* In Conclusion* 2. The Doctor and the Charlatan - Isabelle Stengers* Recovering for the Wrong Reasons* The Power of Experimentation* Who defines the causes?* A Practical Challenge* 3. Users: Lobbies or Political Creativity? - Isabelle Stengers* Is another kind of medicine possible?* Disease mongering* A machine* Condemnation?* Hands Off!* 4. Doctors, Healers, Therapists, the Sick, Patients, Subjects, UsersÉ- Tobie Nathan* Therapist* The Sick* Patients* Subjects* Users* Pharmaka* Notes