Medical anthropology /
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| Author / Creator: | Pool, Robert. |
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| Imprint: | Maidenhead : Open University Press, 2005. |
| Description: | 172 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Understanding public health |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5776835 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Anthropology and culture
- 2. Anthropological perspectives
- 3. Approaches to medical anthropology
- 4. Medical systems and medical syncretism
- 5. Interpreting and explaining sickness
- 6. Situating sickness and health
- 7. The relationship between anthropology and biomedicine
- 8. Substances of power
- 9. Local and global medicines
- 10. Cultures, persons, bodies
- 11. Medical research
- 12. Health interventions as a field of social practice.