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Social Fabric of Health : an Introduction To Medical Anthropology (02 Edition)

by John Janzen

ISBN13: 9780070328310
ISBN10: 0070328315
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This new text for courses in Medical Anthropology, one of the hottest areas in the discipline as a whole, looks at CULTURAL definitions of health to look at health itself--which means that it is not so much about healing/medicine as it is about the entire social/cultural construct of health. The text attempts to bridge the gap between physical and cultural approaches to medical anthropology.

1. Introducing Medical Anthropology

2. The Origins and Theories of Medical Anthropology

3. The Fabric of Health

4. Population and Disease, the Changing Indicators of Health

5. The Life Course: Birthing, Living, Dying

6. Personhood, Liminality, and Identity

7. The Transforming Signs of Sickness and Healing

8. Medical Knowledge

9. Power and Organization in Medicine

10. Shaping the Fabric of Health

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ISBN:: 9780070328310
Subtitle:: An Introduction to Medical Anthropology
Author:: Janzen, John
Author:: Janzen, John M.
Publisher:: McGraw-Hill Companies
Subject:: Medical anthropology
Subject:: Anthropology - General
Subject:: Chap,health,Medical Anthropology,Changing Indicators,Disease,Origins,dying,living,Birthing,lifecourse,medicine,healing Chap7-Medical knowledge
Edition Number:: 1
Publication Date:: August 2001
Binding:: Hardcover
Grade Level:: College/higher education:
Language:: English
Illustrations:: Y
Pages:: 313
Dimensions:: 9.24x7.54x.90 in. 1.67 lbs.

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