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21A.215 Medical Anthropology, Fall 2004

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21A.215 Medical Anthropology, Fall 2004

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Alternative Title: Medical Anthropology
Author: Jackson, Jean E. (Jean Elizabeth), 1943-
Date Issued: 2004-12
Abstract:
Examination of how medicine is practiced cross-culturally, with particular emphasis on Western biomedicine. Analysis of medical practice as a cultural system, focusing on the human, as opposed to the biological, side of things. Also, examines how we and people in other cultures think of disease, health, body, and mind.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49863
Other Identifiers: 21A.215-Fall2004
Other Identifiers: 21A.215
IMSCP-MD5-4f6c2c9bfe010d4caf388a28b325213d
Is Based On: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/35740
Keywords: Anthropology, biomedicine, cultural systems, medical practice, culture, health, disease, Medical anthropology, 450202, Physical Anthropology

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