Paths to Asian medical knowledge /

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Imprint:Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1992.
Description:1 online resource (ix, 296 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Comparative studies of health systems and medical care
Comparative studies of health systems and medical care.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11105629
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Other authors / contributors:Leslie, Charles, 1923-2009.
Young, Allan, 1938-
American Anthropological Association. Annual Meeting (84th : 1985 : Washington, D.C.)
ISBN:9780520910935
0520910931
0520073185
9780520073180
0585131015
9780585131016
0520073177
9780520073173
Notes:Many chapters presented as papers at the 84th Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, D.C., Dec. 1985.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:These essays ask how patients and practitioners know what they know - what evidence of disease or health they consider convincing and what cultural traditions and symbols guide their thinking. The authors offer a range of information and suggest new theoretical avenues for medical anthropology.
Other form:Print version: Paths to Asian medical knowledge. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1992 0520073177