Medicine, rationality, and experience : an anthropological perspective / Byron J. Good.

Biomedicine is often thought to provide a universal, scientific account of the human body and illness. In this view, non-Western and folk medical systems are regarded as systems of "belief" and subtly discounted. This is an impoverished perspective for understanding illness and healing acr...

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Main Author: Good, Byron
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©1994.
Series:Lewis Henry Morgan lectures ; 1990.
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