Paths to Asian medical knowledge /

These essays ask how patients and practitioners know what they know - what evidence of disease or health they consider convincing and what cultural traditions and symbols guide their thinking. The authors offer a range of information and suggest new theoretical avenues for medical anthropology.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: American Anthropological Association. Annual Meeting
Otros Autores: Leslie, Charles, 1923-2009, Young, Allan, 1938-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1992.
Colección:Comparative studies of health systems and medical care.
Temas:
Medicine, Oriental > East Asia > Congresses.
Medicine, Ayurvedic > Congresses.
Medicine, Oriental.
Medicine > Asia.
Medicine, East Asian Traditional
Médecine orientale.
Médecine > Asie.
Āyurveda > Congrès.
MEDICAL > History.
Medicine.
Medicine, Ayurvedic.
Kulturanthropologie
Medizin
Kongress
Medische antropologie.
Geneeskunde.
Ayurveda > Congrès.
Médecine arabe > Asie > Congrès.
Médecine chinoise > Congrès.
Anthropologie médicale > Congrès.
Asia
Asia.
East Asia.
Asien
Medicine
Congress
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:These essays ask how patients and practitioners know what they know - what evidence of disease or health they consider convincing and what cultural traditions and symbols guide their thinking. The authors offer a range of information and suggest new theoretical avenues for medical anthropology.
Notas:Many chapters presented as papers at the 84th Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, D.C., Dec. 1985.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (ix, 296 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780520910935
0520910931
0520073185
9780520073180
0585131015
9780585131016

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