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