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Curing and healing : medical anthropology in global perspective  Cover Image Book Book

Curing and healing : medical anthropology in global perspective / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart.

Strathern, Andrew. (Author). Stewart, Pamela J. (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 9781594605925 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 1594605920 (alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xi, 268 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
  • Edition: 2nd ed.
  • Publisher: Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
1. Introduction -- 2. Regimens of Treatment: Humoral Systems (1) -- 3. Humoral Systems (2): The Melpa of Papua New Guinea -- 4. Curers and Healers: The Melpa -- 5. Duna Ritual Practices and Healing -- 6. Medical Pluralism -- 7. Illness and the Emotions -- 8. Ethnopsychiatry -- 9. Spiritual Healing: Charismatic Catholics -- 10. Airs, Waters, Places -- 11. Fertility -- 12. Doctors and Patients: Communication -- 13. Critical Medical Anthropology -- 14. Conclusions: Curing and Healing.
Subject: Medical anthropology.
Rites and ceremonies.
Healing.
Traditional medicine.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Camosun College Library.

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Lansdowne Library GN 296 S79 2010 (Text) 26040002962567 Main Collection Volume hold Available -


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