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Health and healing in comparative perspective
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- ISBN: 0131273833
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Physical Description:
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xiv, 589 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. - Publisher: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2006.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 581-589). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 1. Backing into the future / Charles Leslie -- 2. Menopause : lessons from anthropology / Margaret Lock -- 3. Why not call modern medicine alternative? / Don G. Bates -- 4. Concepts of arthritis in India's medical traditions : Ayurvedic and Unani perspectives / Judy F. Pugh -- 5. Homeopathic medicine in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico : patients' perspectives and observations / Michael B. Whiteford -- 6. The epistemology of traditional healing systems / Russel Barsh -- 7. Perturbing the system : "hard science", "soft science", and social science, the anxiety and madness of method / Joan Cassell -- 8. Clown doctors : Shaman healers of Western medicine / Linda Miller Van Blerkom -- 9. Shamanism and its discontents / Michael Fobes Brown -- 10. Distal nursing / Ruth E. Malone -- |
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| Subject: | Medical anthropology Healing Diseases Public health Racism Anthropology Medicine Complementary Therapies Cross-Cultural Comparison Disease -- ethnology Health |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Lansdowne Library | GN 296 H434 2006 (Text) | 26040002846265 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |
