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Introducing medical anthropology : a discipline in action / Merrill Singer and Hans Baer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Singer, Merrill.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (303 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : AltaMira Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This new edition introduces students to the growing field of medical anthropology. It reviews the basic perspectives and concepts and the latest debates in the field in a more comprehensive fashion than many other comparable works.
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Chapter 01. Introduction to Medical Anthropology; Chapter 02. What Medical Anthropologists Do; Chapter 03. Understanding Health, Illness, and Disease; Chapter 04. Ethnomedicine; Chapter 05. Medical Pluralism in the Contemporary World; Chapter 06. Health Disparity, Health Inequality; Chapter 07. Health and the Environment; Glossary; References; Source Material for Students; Index; About the Authors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-64788-4
- 9786613633934
- 0-7591-2090-0
- OCLC:
- 779828636
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