Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-233) and index.
Contents:
1. Why have a medical anthropology? -- 2. What medical anthropologists do -- 3. What is health? : experiencing illness, knowing disease -- 4. Ethnomedicine : the worlds of treatment and healing -- 5. Plural medical systems in the contemporary world : complexity, complementarity, and conflict -- 6. Health disparity, health inequality -- 7. Health and the environment : toward a healthier world -- Source material for students -- References -- Index.
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