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Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care: Knowledge Power and Practice : The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life (Series #36) (Edition 1) (Paperback)

These original essays which combine theoretical argument with empirical observation constitute a state-of-the-art platform for future research in medical anthropology. Ranging in time and locale the essays are based on research in historical and... more

Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care: Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture : An Exploration of the Borderland between Anthropology Medicine and Psychiatry (Series #5) (Edition 1) (Paperback)

From the Preface by Arthur Kleinman: Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture presents a theoretical framework for studying the relationship between medicine psychiatry and culture. That framework is principally illustrated by materials gathered... more

Pre-Owned With Shaking Hands: Aging with Parkinson s Disease in America s Heartland (Studies in Medical Anthropology) Paperback

Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help.... more

Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology: Living with Diabetes and Uncertainty in Cairo: Sweetness Under Pressure (Hardcover)

Living with Diabetes and Uncertainty in Cairo offers an ethnographic exploration of the interactions of two different understandings of type-2 diabetes: one related to the notion of �aghṭ translated as pressure or stress and another related... more

Pre-Owned A Reader in Medical Anthropology : Theoretical Trajectories Emergent Realities (Paperback) 9781405183147

* Presents a key collection of both classic and new agenda-setting articles in this central area of anthropology * Provides analytic and historical contextual introductions by leading figures in medical anthropology medical sociology science studies... more

Pre-Owned Knowledge Power and Practice: The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life Volume 36 (Paperback 9780520077850) by Shirley Lindenbaum Margaret M Lock

9780520077850. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 448. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 448 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white. Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care 36. These original... more

Etiology Diagnosis and Treatment Under the Domain of Ethnomedicine (Paperback)

Ethnomedicine is a sub discipline of Medical Anthropology.It is a study of beliefs and practices concerning illness in different human populations.Precisely dealing with those practices and knowledge systems which are not derived from the conceptual... more