Medical anthropology : regional perspectives and shared concerns / edited by Francine Saillant and Serge Genest.

Date:
2007
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Also known as

Anthropologie médicale. English. 2007. no2008066683

Publication/Creation

Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell, 2007.

Physical description

xxxiii, 305 pages ; 26 cm

Notes

"First published in France as Anthropologie médicale: ancrages locaux, défis globaux."

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Bioscience and biotechnology under ethnographic surveillance : where do Canadian medical anthropologists stand? / Gilles Bibeau, Janice E. Graham, and Usher Fleising -- The anthropology of health in Québec : toward a blending of approaches and methods / Raymond Massé -- Medical anthropology in the United States / Arachu Castro and Paul Farmer -- Much more than medical anthropology : the healthy body and Brazilian identity / Annette Leibing -- Medical anthropology in Mexico : recent trends in research and education / Maria Beatriz Duarte-Gómez, Roberto Campos-Navarro, and Gustavo Nigenda -- Medical anthropology in France : a healthy discipline / Sylvie Fainzang -- Topographies, folklore and medical anthropology in Spain / Josep M. Comelles, Enrique Perdiguero, and Angel Martínez-Hernáez -- Suffering, politics, nation : a cartography of Italian medical anthropology / Mariella Pandolfi and Gilles Bibeau -- Medical anthropology(ies) in Germany / Angelika Wolf, Stefan Ecks, and Johannes Sommerfeld -- A cultural fascination with medicine : medical anthropology in the Netherlands / Sjaak Van der Geest -- British medical anthropology : past, present and future / Ronald Frankenberg -- Anthropology between medicine and society : Swiss health interfaces / Ilario Rossi -- Engendering medical anthropology / Carol H. Browner and Carolyn Sargent -- The politics of life : beyond the anthropology of health / Didier Fassin.

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    History of Medicine
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ISBN

  • 1405152494
  • 9781405152495
  • 1405152508
  • 9781405152501