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Table of contents (105 entries)
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Front Matter
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Topics
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Front Matter
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General Concepts and Perspectives
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Political, Economic, and Social Issues
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About this book
Medical practitioners and the ordinary citizen are becoming more aware that we need to understand cultural variation in medical belief and practice. The more we know how health and disease are managed in different cultures, the more we can recognize what is "culture bound" in our own medical belief and practice.
The Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology is unique because it is the first reference work to describe the cultural practices relevant to health in the world's cultures and to provide an overview of important topics in medical anthropology. No other single reference work comes close to marching the depth and breadth of information on the varying cultural background of health and illness around the world. More than 100 experts - anthropologists and other social scientists - have contributed their firsthand experience of medical cultures from around the world.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"These two volumes, by turns a review of and a reflection on medical anthropology from the 1960s onward, provide the most extensive single reference on the field as yet." (Robert L. Martensen, The New England Journal of Medicine)
Editors and Affiliations
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Human Relations Area Files, Yale University, New Haven, USA
Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology
Book Subtitle: Health and Illness in the World's Cultures Topics - Volume 1; Cultures - Volume 2
Editors: Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-29905-X
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-47754-6Published: 31 December 2003
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-29905-1Published: 28 December 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XL, 1071
Topics: Anthropology, Public Health