Introducing medical anthropology : a discipline in action / Merrill Singer and Hans Baer.
Introducing medical anthropology : a discipline in action / Merrill Singer and Hans Baer.
Introducing medical anthropology : a discipline in action / Merrill Singer and Hans Baer.
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Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, c2007.
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N306.461/ 54
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English
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p. cm.
Contents
Why have a medical anthropology? -- What medical anthropologists do -- What is health : experiencing illness, knowing disease -- Ethnomedicines : the worlds of treatment and healing -- Plural medical systems in the contemporary world : complexity, complementarity, and conflict -- Health disparity, h...
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Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, c2007.
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Maryland
Date Published
c2007.
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Third, through an examination of health inequalities on one hand, and environmental degradation and environment-related illness on the other, the authors emphasize the need for a comprehensive medical anthropology that integrates biological, cultural, and social factors in order to understand the origin of ill health and to contribute to more effec...
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Introducing medical anthropology : a discipline in action / Merrill Singer and Hans Baer.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2007.
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N306.461/ 54
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74VKz4Q3kkpZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKz4Q3kkpZ
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0759110581 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780759110571 (hardback : alk. paper)
0759110573 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780759110588 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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306.461
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991023581879702626
