Medical materialities : toward a material culture of medical anthropology / edited by Aaron Parkhurs...
Medical materialities : toward a material culture of medical anthropology / edited by Aaron Parkhurs...
Medical materialities : toward a material culture of medical anthropology / edited by Aaron Parkhurst and Timothy Carroll.
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Publisher
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
Call Numbers
G 2020/2031
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MMS ID
Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
237 pages ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
1.Introduction: a genealogy of medical materialities / Aaron Parkhurst -- pt. I Flesh and fluids -- 2.Of flesh and mesh: time, materiality, and health in surgical recovery / Rebecca Lynch -- 3.From attitudes to materialities: understanding bowel control for colorectal cancer patients in London / Ign...
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Publisher
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2019.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
"Medical Materialities investigates possible points of cross-fertilisation between medical anthropology and material culture studies, and considers the successes and limitations of both sub-disciplines as they attempt to understand places, practices, methods, and cultures of healing. The editors present and expand upon a definition of ‘medical mate...
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Medical materialities : toward a material culture of medical anthropology / edited by Aaron Parkhurst and Timothy Carroll.
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Notes
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Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology.
"Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology" -- Front cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
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©2019.
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G 2020/2031
Record Identifier
74VKaDra4OQX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaDra4OQX
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ISBN
9781138314290
1138314293
DDC
306.461
MMS ID
991024298613502626
