- Paperback: 428 pages
- Publisher: University of California Press; Reprint edition (Oct 4 1993)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0520077857
- ISBN-13: 978-0520077850
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 590 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #476,666 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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These original essays, which combine theoretical argument with empirical observation, constitute a state-of-the-art platform for future research in medical anthropology. Ranging in time and locale, the essays are based on research in historical and cultural settings. The contributors accept the notion that all knowledge is socially and culturally constructed and examine the contexts in which that knowledge is produced and practiced in medicine, psychiatry, epidemiology, and anthropology. Professionals in behavioral medicine, public health, and epidemiology as well as medical anthropologists will find their insights significant.
About the Author
Shirley Lindenbaum is Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York and author of Kuru Sorcery (1979). Margaret Lock is Professor of Medical Anthopology at McGill University and author of East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan (California, 1980).
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In the past few decades, anthropologists, sociologists, and historians have proposed the notion that categories of illness and disease are culturally constructed: created by human beings in particular social settings and at particular times. Read the first page
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In the past few decades, anthropologists, sociologists, and historians have proposed the notion that categories of illness and disease are culturally constructed: created by human beings in particular social settings and at particular times. Read the first page
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