On knowing and not knowing in the anthropology of medicine /
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Imprint: | Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, ©2007. |
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Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 225 pages) : illustrations |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11216675 |
Other authors / contributors: | Littlewood, Roland. |
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ISBN: | 9781598747782 1598747789 1315423332 9781315423333 1315423324 9781315423326 9781315423319 1315423316 1598742752 9781598742756 9781598742756 1598742752 9781598742749 1598742744 |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record. |
Summary: | Social scientific studies of medicine typically assume that systems of medical knowledge are uniform and consistent. But while anthropologists have long rejected the notion that cultures are discrete, bounded, and rule-drive entities, medical anthropology has been slower to develop alternative approaches to understanding cultures of health. This provocative volume considers the theoretical, methodological, and ethnographic implications of the fact that medical knowledge is frequently dynamic, incoherent, and contradictory, and that and our understanding of it is necessarily incomplete and part. |
Other form: | Print version: On knowing and not knowing in the anthropology of medicine. Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, ©2007 9781598742756 |
Standard no.: | 9781598742756 |
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