The Social Fabric of Health: An Introduction to Medical Anthropology
by John Janzen
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, ThePages: 336
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780070328310
Overview of The Social Fabric of Health: An Introduction to Medical Anthropology
This new text for courses in Medical Anthropology, one of the hottest areas in the discipline as a whole, looks at CULTURAL definitions of health to look at health itselfâwhich means that it is not so much about healing/medicine as it is about the entire social/cultural construct of health. The text attempts to bridge the gap between physical and cultural approaches to medical anthropology.Synopsis of The Social Fabric of Health: An Introduction to Medical Anthropology
This new text for courses in Medical Anthropology, one of the hottest areas in the discipline as a whole, looks at CULTURAL definitions of health to look at health itself—which means that it is not so much about healing/medicine as it is about the entire social/cultural construct of health. The text attempts to bridge the gap between physical and cultural approaches to medical anthropology.
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