21A.215 Medical Anthropology, Fall 2002

Examination of how medicine is practiced cross-culturally, with particular emphasis on Western biomedicine. Analysis of medical practice as a cultural system, focusing on the human, as opposed to the biological, side of things. Also, examines how we and people in other cultures think of disease, hea...

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Main Author: Jackson, Jean E. (Jean Elizabeth), 1943-
Language:en-US
Published: 2002
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/35740