The Anthropology of Medicine
Subtitle: From Culture to Method<br> Third Edition
Contributors: Lola Romanucci-Ross (Editor); Daniel E. Moerman (Editor); Laurence R. Tancredi (Editor)
Edition: 3 Sub edition
Publisher: Bergin & Garvey
Published: September 30, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780897894906
Subjects: Anthropology; Medical Anthropology; Social Science; Health - General; Consumer Health; Sociology; Public Health; Mental illness; Materia medica, Vegetable; Medical / Public Health; Anthropology - General; Social aspects; 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).