The taste for knowledge : medical anthropology facing medical realities /
edited by Sylvie Fainzang, Hans Einar Hem, Mette Bech Risør.
- Århus : Aarhus University Press, (c)2010.
- 1 online resource (258 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references.
Medical anthropology as a collaborating science -- Medical realities and patient strategies.
The Taste for Knowledge: Medical anthropology facing medical realities demonstrates how medical anthropology is becoming increasingly important in the fields of medical research and public health. The taste for knowledge is precisely what readers of this book will come to share with the authors, who examine some of the major issues in medical anthropology today. In this volume, a group of international researchers reflect, for example, on the way anthropology faces and deals with interdisciplinarity in its encounter with medicine and doctors; the new medical realities and patient strategies tha.
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Medical anthropology--Methodology. Medical anthropology--Philosophy. Health services accessibility.