Evolution of sickness and healing
This book constitutes an attempt to provide a theoretical introduction to the comparative study of medicine as a social institution. I draw on work from many disciplines, including cultural and physical anthropology, sociology, social history of medicine, medical geography, economics, paleoanthropol...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London
University of California Press
2020, ©1999
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | This book constitutes an attempt to provide a theoretical introduction to the comparative study of medicine as a social institution. I draw on work from many disciplines, including cultural and physical anthropology, sociology, social history of medicine, medical geography, economics, paleoanthropology, paleopathology, archaeology, historical epidemiology, and human evolutionary biology. I cover biological aspects of disease prevalence, characteristics of medical practice, lay and folk as well as practitioner orientations to illness, and the general cultural meanings of medicine in various types of societies. A fundamental motivation behind the book is that there exists a need to conceptualize medicine in a theoretically integrated way. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 364 pages |
| ISBN: | 978-0-520-31156-5 0-520-20609-6 |