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Medicine, rationality, and experience : an anthropological perspective / Byron J. Good.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Good, Byron.
- Series:
- Lewis Henry Morgan lectures ; 1990.
- The Lewis Henry Morgan lectures ; 1990
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical anthropology.
- Social medicine.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 242 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
- Summary:
- Biomedicine is often thought to provide a universal scientific account of the human body and illness. In this view, non-Western and folk medical system are regarded as system of 'belief' and and subtly discounted.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-233) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0521415586
- 052142576X
- OCLC:
- 27265990
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