ody and the symbolic order proves difficult for the whole array of disciplines attempting to analyze this precarious relationship.
The Kleinmans insist that this lack of exploring the methods which underwrite the incorporation of the social body into the physical body is a grave error (Kleinman, 1994, p. 709). What this oversight underscores is a lack of mediation between the collective and the individual. The mapping of the space between is nearly empty. A greater understanding of how the body is inscripted by society is still needed. What is needed is the ability to draw cultural boundaries between "subjectivity and the symbolic order, agency and social control, experience and representation" (Kleinman, 1994, p. 709). This split creates a division between the disciplines of "anthropology, sociology, social history and political science" on the one side and "psychology, psychiatry, neurosciences and biomedicine" on the other (Kleinman, 1994, p. 709). This anthropological analysis of disease comparing western medicine with alternative medicine seeks to w
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