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Title

Medical anthropology : regional perspectives and shared concerns / edited by Francine Saillant and Serge Genest.

Publication

Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Saillant, Francine.
• Genest, Serge.

Description

xxxiii, 305 p.; 26 cm.

Summary

This book surveys medical anthropology by examining the multiplicity of intellectual traditions from which it emerged, taking a closer look at the paths charted by medical anthropologists in Europe and the Americas.

Uniform Title

Anthropologie médicale. English.

Subject

• Cross-Cultural Comparison
• Anthropology
• Medical anthropology

Note

• "First published in France as Anthropologie médicale: ancrages locaux, défis globaux."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Bioscience and biotechnology under ethnographic surveillance : where do Canadian medical anthropologists stand? / Gilles Bibeau, Janice E. Graham, and Usher Fleising -- The anthropology of health in Québec : toward a blending of approaches and methods / Raymond Massé -- Medical anthropology in the United States / Arachu Castro and Paul Farmer -- Much more than medical anthropology : the healthy body and Brazilian identity / Annette Leibing -- Medical anthropology in Mexico : recent trends in research and education / Maria Beatriz Duarte-Gómez, Roberto Campos-Navarro, and Gustavo Nigenda -- Medical anthropology in France : a healthy discipline / Sylvie Fainzang -- Topographies, folklore and medical anthropology in Spain / Josep M. Comelles, Enrique Perdiguero, and Angel Martínez-Hernáez -- Suffering, politics, nation : a cartography of Italian medical anthropology / Mariella Pandolfi and Gilles Bibeau -- Medical anthropology(ies) in Germany / Angelika Wolf, Stefan Ecks, and Johannes Sommerfeld -- A cultural fascination with medicine : medical anthropology in the Netherlands / Sjaak Van der Geest -- British medical anthropology : past, present and future / Ronald Frankenberg -- Anthropology between medicine and society : Swiss health interfaces / Ilario Rossi -- Engendering medical anthropology / Carol H. Browner and Carolyn Sargent -- The politics of life : beyond the anthropology of health / Didier Fassin.

ISBN

• 1405152494 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9781405152495 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1405152508 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781405152501 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• ^^2006014887
• 9781405152495
• 9781405152501

OCLC

• 68416811
• SCSB-11687280

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library