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Medicine, Rationality, and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective (The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures 1900) - Softcover

Good, Byron J.

 
9780521425766: Medicine, Rationality, and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective (The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures 1900)

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A 1993 analysis of the role of cultural factors in the experience of illness, countering the scientific view of folk medicine as superstitious practice.

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Biomedicine is often thought to provide a universal scientific account of the human body and illness. In this view, non-Western and folk medical system are regarded as system of 'belief' and and subtly discounted.

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