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Introducing medical anthropology : a discipline in action /

Title
Introducing medical anthropology : a discipline in action / Merrill Singer and Hans Baer.
Author
Singer, Merrill.
Publication
Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, c2007.

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Additional Authors
Baer, Hans A., 1944-
Description
v, 246 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
Medical anthropology
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-233) and index.
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, health inequity -- Health and the environment : toward a healthier world -- Source material for students.
ISBN
  • 9780759110571 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 0759110573 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9780759110588 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0759110581 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2007013895
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library