Medicine, rationality, and experience : an anthropological perspective /
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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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
©1994.
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| Series: | Lewis Henry Morgan lectures
1990. |
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