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Writing at the Margin: Discourse Between Anthropology and Medicine

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This book seems to be closer to the thinking of a man late in his career. I get the sense that his thinking has changed since his famous paper in the annals of internal medicine where he makes the distinction between illness and disease. He seems to ignore the etymological significance of the term "disease" as he has moved more to the social constructionist position in medical anthropology, which you will find here. Still, this is a good book and he raises the classical questions about psychiatric suffering, medicalization, labeling, and the hegemony of particular approaches to medicine.