21A.215 Medical Anthropology, Fall 2004
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Author(s)
Jackson, Jean E. (Jean Elizabeth), 1943-
Alternative Title
Medical Anthropology
Date Issued
December 2004
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.
Subjects
Anthropology
biomedicine
cultural systems
medical practice
culture
health
disease
Medical anthropology
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Anthropology Program
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