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Exploring medical anthropology / Donald Joralemon.
Penn Museum Library GN296 .J65 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Joralemon, Donald.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical anthropology.
- Anthropology, Cultural.
- Sociology, Medical.
- Medical Subjects:
- Anthropology, Cultural.
- Sociology, Medical.
- Physical Description:
- x, 165 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, [2010]
- Contents:
- 1. What's so cultural about disease?
- 2. Anthropological questions and methods in the study of sickness and healing
- 3. Recognizing biological, social, and cultural interconnections : evolutionary and ecological perspectives on a cholera epidemic
- 4. Expanding the vision of medical anthropology : critical and interpretive views of the cholera epidemic
- 5. The global petri dish
- 6. Healers and the healing professions
- 7. Applying medical anthropology
- 8. Anthropology and medical ethics
- 9. Body, self, and biotechnologies
- 10. A look back and a glance ahead.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-160) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0205693512
- 9780205693511
- OCLC:
- 277205447
- Publisher Number:
- 99966263608
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