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Title The taste for knowledge : medical anthropology facing medical realities / edited by Sylvie Fainzang, Hans Einar Hem, Mette Bech Risør
Published Århus : Aarhus University Press, [2010]
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Description 1 online resource (258 pages) : illustrations
Contents Medical anthropology as a collaborating science -- Medical realities and patient strategies
Summary The Taste for Knowledge: Medical anthropology facing medical realities demonstrates how medical anthropology is becoming increasingly important in the fields of medical research and public health. The taste for knowledge is precisely what readers of this book will come to share with the authors, who examine some of the major issues in medical anthropology today. In this volume, a group of international researchers reflect, for example, on the way anthropology faces and deals with interdisciplinarity in its encounter with medicine and doctors; the new medical realities and patient strategies tha
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Medical anthropology -- Methodology
Medical anthropology -- Philosophy
Health services accessibility.
Anthropology -- methods
Chronic Disease -- psychology
Health Services Accessibility
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Atlases.
MEDICAL -- Essays.
MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Osteopathy.
Health services accessibility
Medical anthropology -- Methodology
Medical anthropology -- Philosophy
Medische antropologie.
Form Electronic book
Author Fainzang, Sylvie, 1954- editor.
Hem, Hans Einar, editor
Risør, Mette Bech, editor
LC no. 2011418056
ISBN 9788779344419
8779344410