The use and abuse of medicine
By: edited by Marten W. De Vries, Robert L. Berg, mack Lipkin, Jr.
Contributors: Berg, Robert L.; De Vries, Marten W.; Lipkin, Mack.
Publisher: Praeger Publishers Inc; ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 1982-10-01
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Medical anthropology -- Addresses, essays, lectures; Medical care -- Addresses, essays, lectures; Social medicine -- Addresses, essays, lectures
Description: The contributors to this book seek to examine, through several interdisciplinary lenses, the issue of the proper place of medicine. First, a theoretical approach is undertaken by anthropologists, medical theorists, and a historian. Then a specific illness entity, couvade, is examined cross-culturally in considerable detail and analyzed from sociological and medical-theoretical points of view. Finally, a variety of case studies from multiple disciplines and settings, ranging from the West to the Third World enrich the data points from which to create a picture of the proper place of medicine.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.

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