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Sickness and healing : an anthropological perspective

Summary: The ways in which people respond to sickness differ greatly from society to society. In this book anthropologist and epidemiologist Robert A. Hahn examines how Western and non-Western cultures influence the definition, experience, and treatment of sickness.

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  • ISBN: 0300060882
  • ISBN: 9780300060881
  • ISBN: 9780300068719
  • ISBN: 0300068719
  • Physical Description: print
    viii, 327 pages ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1995.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-321) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 1. The Universe of Sickness -- 2. Culture-bound Syndromes Unbound -- 3. Three Theories of Sickness and Healing -- 4. The Role of Society and Culture in Sickness and Healing -- 5. Anthropology and Epidemiology: One Logic or Two? -- 6. Biomedicine as a Cultural System -- 7. A World of Internal Medicine: Portrait of an Internist -- 8. Divisions of Labor: Obstetrician, Woman, and Society in Williams Obstetrics, 1903-1989 -- 9. Between Two Worlds: Physicians as Patients -- 10. From Medical Anthropology to Anthropological Medicine.
Subject: Medical anthropology
Social medicine
History of Medicine
Disease
Anthropology, Cultural
Medicine Sociology

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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Lummi Library GN 296 .H34 1995 257837 Stacks Available -

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