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The Anthropology of Health and Healing

The Anthropology of Health and Healing

The Anthropology of Health and Healing

Mari Womack

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RLPG/Galleys
Año de edición:
2010
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Antropología social y cultural, etnografía
ISBN:
9780759110434
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The Anthropology of Health and Healing is the first text to take an integrative approach to the discipline of medical anthropology. In this book, Mari Womack champions a practice of medicine that includes the maintenance of health as well as treatment of illness, emphasizing the importance of lifestyle and the life cycle.

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