The Anthropology of Medicine
Subtitle: From Culture to Method Third Edition
Contributors: Lola Romanucci-Ross (Editor); Daniel E. Moerman (Editor); Laurence R. Tancredi (Editor)
Edition: 3 edition
Publisher: Bergin & Garvey Paperback
Published: September 30, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780897895163
Subjects: Anthropology; Medical anthropology; Social aspects; Materia medica, Vegetable; Diet / Health / Fitness; Consumer Health; Public Health; Medical; Mental illness; Medical / Public Health; 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).