Exploring Medical Anthropology

Joralemon, Donald

ISBN 10: 1138201863 / ISBN 13: 9781138201866

Editore: Routledge, 2017

Codice articolo 6666-IUK-9781138201866

Riassunto:

Now in its fourth edition, Exploring Medical Anthropology provides a concise and engaging introduction to medical anthropology. It presents competing theoretical perspectives in a balanced fashion, highlighting points of conflict and convergence. Concrete examples and the author’s personal research experiences are utilized to explain some of the discipline’s most important insights, such as that biology and culture matter equally in the human experience of disease and that medical anthropology can help to alleviate human suffering.

The text has been thoroughly updated for the fourth edition, including fresh case studies and a new chapter on drugs. It contains a range of pedagogical features to support teaching and learning, including images, text boxes, a glossary, and suggested further reading.

Informazioni sull'autore:

Donald Joralemon is Professor of Anthropology at Smith College, USA.

Dati bibliografici

Titolo: Exploring Medical Anthropology
Casa editrice: Routledge
Data di pubblicazione: 2017
Legatura: unknown_binding
Condizione: New
Edizione: quarta edizione