Social Lives of Medicines
Social Lives of Medicines Books
Product Description
The focus of this book is medicines (swallowed, injected, rubbed on), as understood by anthropologists concerned only with their social uses. The text starts with examples of a mother medicating a child in various cultural contexts and ends with a broad review of the complex elements that determine the production and use of medicines. Since 1993, Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology has offered researchers and instructors monographs and edited collections of leading scholarship in one of the most lively and well loved subfields of cultural and social anthropology. Beginning in 2002, the CSMA run presents theme booksworks that synthesize emerging scholarship from relatively new subfields or that reinterpret the literature of older ones. Calculated as course material for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and for professionals in correlated areas (physicians, nurses, broadcast health workers, and medical sociologists), these theme books will exhibit how work in medical anthropology is carried out and convey the importance of a given topic for a wide variety of readers. About 160 pages in part, the theme books are not simply grave reviews of the literature. They are, instead, new ways of conceptualizing topics in medical anthropology that take advantage of current research and the growing edges of the field.
Buy Cheap Social Lives of Medicines Online
Related posts: