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Anthropologies of Medicine

A Colloquium on West European and North American Perspectives

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  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. Beatrix Pfleiderer

    1. Institut für Ethnologie, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg 13, Germany

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  2. Gilles Bibeau

    1. Department of Anthropology, Départment d’ Anthropologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Medical Systems and Cultural Change: An Analysis of Facts and Theories

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205
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    2. The Hierarchies of Medicines

      • Gilles Bibeau
      Pages 207-219

    3. Cultural Constructivism: Sickness Histories and the Understanding of Ethnomedicines beyond Critical Medical Anthropologies

      • Atwood D. Gaines
      Pages 221-258

    4. Holistic Health and a Changing Western World View

      • Carol P. MacCormack
      Pages 259-273

  2. Back Matter

    Pages 275-276
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Ethnologie, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg 13, Germany

    Beatrix Pfleiderer

  • Department of Anthropology, Départment d’ Anthropologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

    Gilles Bibeau

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Anthropologies of Medicine

  • Book Subtitle: A Colloquium on West European and North American Perspectives

  • Editors: Beatrix Pfleiderer, Gilles Bibeau

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-87859-5

  • Publisher: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-528-07820-1Published: 01 January 1991

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-322-87859-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 275

  • Topics: Anthropology, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Medicine/Public Health, general

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