The Anthropology of Medicine
Subtitle: From Culture to Method
Contributors: Laurence R. Tancredi (Editor)
Edition: 2nd edition
Publisher: Bergin & Garvey
Published: December 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780897892629
Subjects: Medical Anthropology; Social aspects; Folk Medicine; Sociology; Materia medica, Vegetable; Mental illness; Traditional medicine
First sentence: For primitive societies and for folk or peasant cultures in the Europeanized world, including the United States, we have access to a considerable body of literature on health-seeking behavior and the contexts in which therapeutic decisions are made (Landy 1977; Logan and Hunt 1978).