The Anthropology of Health and Healing

by Mari Womack

Book Overview

The Anthropology of Health and Healing provides the first holistic approach to the study of medical anthropology. Over the past two decades, medical anthropology has been the most rapidly growing subfield in anthropology, and a number of medial anthropology texts have been published, focusing primarily on public policy and health care delivery systems. Yet while Anthropologists have researched topics related to medical anthropology for over 100 years,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0759110441
• ISBN13: 9780759110441
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Altamira Press
• Length: 367 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.9" x 9.9"