Methodological Approaches to the Study of Reasoning

Comments on Cheryl Mattingly's, Linda M. Hunt's, & Linda C. Garro's (all, 1998) articles exploring various forms of reasoning used by sick people & those around them to understand a disorder & take action to ease its effects. It is suggested that, as a group, these article...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Medical anthropology quarterly 1998-09, Vol.12 (3), p.358-362
Main Author: Mathews, Holly F.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anthropology
Biomedicine
Commentaries
Cultural Characteristics
Decision Making
Decision making models
Diseases
Folktales
Health Behavior
Humans
Illness Behavior
Medical anthropology
Medical Decision Making
Medical practice
Medicine
Methodology
Methodology (Data Collection)
Models, Psychological
Narrative modes
Physicians
Rationality
Reason
Reasoning
Research Design
Research Methodology
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Comments on Cheryl Mattingly's, Linda M. Hunt's, & Linda C. Garro's (all, 1998) articles exploring various forms of reasoning used by sick people & those around them to understand a disorder & take action to ease its effects. It is suggested that, as a group, these articles demonstrate the value of contextually sensitive, experience-near approaches to data collection. Yet, the data presented are also patterned & systematic, which raises a discussion of how formal analytical techniques utilized in an explicitly comparative perspective might aid in elucidating & validating ethnographic insights. The challenge posed by these articles is both to document locally variant forms of reasoning & to build a broader comparative theory. 3 References. T. Nagai
ISSN:0745-5194
1548-1387
DOI:10.1525/maq.1998.12.3.358