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On knowing and not knowing in the anthropology of medicine (Record no. 100683)

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082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 306.4/61
245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title On knowing and not knowing in the anthropology of medicine
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication Walnut Creek, CA :
Name of publisher Left Coast Press,
Year of publication c2007.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages xvii, 225 p. :
Other physical details ill.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note The importance of knowing about not knowing / Murray Last -- Coconuts and syphilis : an essay in overinterpretation / Roland Littlewood -- On "medical system" and questions in fieldwork / Gilbert Lewis -- Explanatory models and oversystematization in medical anthropology / Simon Dein -- The ambivalence of integrative medicine / Guido Giarelli -- Not knowing about defecation / Sjaak van der Geest -- Christianity, tradition, AIDS, and pornography : knowing sex in western Kenya / P. Wenzel Geissler and Ruth J. Prince -- Feeling and borderlinking in Yaka healing arts / Ren Devisch -- On knowing and not knowing in Latvian psychiatric consultations / Vieda Skultans -- Farewell to fieldwork? : constraints in anthropological research in violent situations / Els van Dongen -- Neutralizing the young : the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and youth / Pamela Reynolds -- In touch without touching : Islam and healing / David Parkin.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Medical anthropology.
Topical Term Traditional medicine
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Littlewood, Roland.
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10386152

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