Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology : Health and Illness in the World's Cultures / edited by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember.

"Medical practitioners and the ordinary citizen are becoming more aware that we need to understand cultural variation in medical belief and practice. The more we know how health and disease are managed in different cultures, the more we can recognize what is 'culture bound' in our own...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Corporate Author:	Human Relations Area Files, Inc
Other Authors:	Ember, Carol R. (Editor), Ember, Melvin (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, [2004]
Subjects:	Social medicine > Encyclopedias. World health > Encyclopedias. Medical anthropology > Encyclopedias. Medicine > Cross-cultural studies. Health > Cross-cultural studies. Diseases > Social aspects. Social medicine. World health. Medical anthropology. Medicine. Health. Cross-cultural studies. Encyclopedias.