21A.215 Medical Anthropology, Fall 2004

Jackson, Jean E. (Jean Elizabeth), 1943-

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Jackson, Jean E. (Jean Elizabeth), 1943-

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Medical Anthropology

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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.

Date issued

2004-12

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49863

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21A.215-Fall2004

local: 21A.215

local: IMSCP-MD5-4f6c2c9bfe010d4caf388a28b325213d

Keywords

Anthropology, biomedicine, cultural systems, medical practice, culture, health, disease, Medical anthropology

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