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On knowing and not knowing in the anthropology of medicine /
Social scientific studies of medicine typically assume that systems of medical knowledge are uniform and consistent. But while anthropologists have long rejected the notion that cultures are discrete, bounded, and rule-drive entities, medical anthropology has been slower to develop alternative appro...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Walnut Creek, CA :
Left Coast Press,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Social scientific studies of medicine typically assume that systems of medical knowledge are uniform and consistent. But while anthropologists have long rejected the notion that cultures are discrete, bounded, and rule-drive entities, medical anthropology has been slower to develop alternative approaches to understanding cultures of health. This provocative volume considers the theoretical, methodological, and ethnographic implications of the fact that medical knowledge is frequently dynamic, incoherent, and contradictory, and that and our understanding of it is necessarily incomplete and part. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 225 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781598747782 1598747789 1315423332 9781315423333 1315423324 9781315423326 9781315423319 1315423316 1598742752 9781598742756 |