| Description |
viii, 327 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Universe of Sickness -- 2. Culture-bound Syndromes Unbound -- 3. Three Theories of Sickness and Healing -- 4. The Role of Society and Culture in Sickness and Healing -- 5. Anthropology and Epidemiology: One Logic or Two? -- 6. Biomedicine as a Cultural System -- 7. A World of Internal Medicine: Portrait of an Internist -- 8. Divisions of Labor: Obstetrician, Woman, and Society in Williams Obstetrics, 1903-1989 -- 9. Between Two Worlds: Physicians as Patients -- 10. From Medical Anthropology to Anthropological Medicine. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-321) and index. |
| Subject |
Medical anthropology.
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Social medicine.
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History of Medicine.
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Disease.
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Anthropology, Cultural.
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| Indexed Term |
Medicine Sociology |
| ISBN |
0300060882 |
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