The taste for knowledge : medical anthropology facing medical realities /

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Imprint:Århus : Aarhus University Press, [2010]
©2010
Description:1 online resource (258 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11160329
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Other authors / contributors:Fainzang, Sylvie, 1954- editor.
Hem, Hans Einar, editor
Risør, Mette Bech, editor
ISBN:9788779344419
8779344410
9788779345157
8779345158
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
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Summary:The Taste for Knowledge: Medical anthropology facing medical realities demonstrates how medical anthropology is becoming increasingly important in the fields of medical research and public health. The taste for knowledge is precisely what readers of this book will come to share with the authors, who examine some of the major issues in medical anthropology today. In this volume, a group of international researchers reflect, for example, on the way anthropology faces and deals with interdisciplinarity in its encounter with medicine and doctors; the new medical realities and patient strategies tha.
Other form:Print version: Taste for knowledge. Århus : Aarhus University Press, ©2010 9788779345157