Exploring medical anthropology
This text provides a concise introduction to the field of medical anthropology. It presents competing theoretical perspectives in a balanced fashion, highlighting points of conflict and convergence.
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- Full title :Exploring medical anthropology / Donald Joralemon.
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This text provides a concise introduction to the field of medical anthropology. It presents competing theoretical perspectives in a balanced fashion, highlighting points of conflict and convergence.
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- Publication Date:©2017
- Edition:Fourth edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:Oxfordshire [England]
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2017
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (170 pages) : : illustrations, photographs
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781138201873, 1138201871, 9781138201866, 1138201863, 9781315470610, 1315470616, 9781315470603, 1315470608, 9781315470597, 1315470594
- oclc:on1000173928
- LC Classification:GN296
- Dewey Decimal:306.461
Table of Contents
1. What's so cultural about disease? -- 2. Anthropological questions and methods in the study of sickness and healing -- 3. Recognizing biological, social, and cultural interconnections: evolutionary and ecological perspectives on a cholera epidemic -- 4. Expanding the vision of medical anthropology : critical and interpretive views of the cholera epidemic -- 5. The global petri dish -- 6. Healers and the healing professions -- 7. Drugs : a fieldwork encounter with drugs -- 8. Applying medical anthropology -- 9. Anthropology and medical ethics -- 10. A look back and a glance ahead.
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