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Medicine and morality in Haiti : the contest for healing power / Paul Brodwin.
LIBRA RA418.3.H35 B76 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brodwin, Paul.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in medical anthropology ; 3.
- Cambridge studies in medical anthropology ; 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social medicine--Haiti.
- Social medicine.
- Medicine--Haiti--Religious aspects.
- Medicine.
- Medical ethics--Haiti.
- Medical ethics.
- Medical anthropology.
- Haiti.
- Medical anthropology--Haiti.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 240 pages : illustrations, map, photographs ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
- Summary:
- A study of how medicine and morality in rural Haiti are shaped both by local religious traditions and by biomedical and folk medical practices.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-236) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521570298
- 0521575435
- OCLC:
- 34192539
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