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Introducing medical anthropology : a discipline in action
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- Creator
- Merrill Singer and Hans Baer
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- v, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780759110571, 0759110573, 9780759110588, 0759110581
- OCLC
- ocn122701707
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-233) and index.
- 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, health inequity -- Health and the environment : toward a healthier world -- Source material for students
Subjects
- Medical anthropology.
- Anthropology, Physical.
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- Social Medicine.
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- Health Status Disparities.
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- Environmental Health.
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