Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Ethnomedicine

Download or read book Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Ethnomedicine written by Mark Nichter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1992. The reader of this volume will see how a decade of new work has remade ethnomedicine into one of the livelier and more promising domains of anthropology. Nicthter's encompassing redefinition of the relationship of ethnomedicine to medical anthropology and his critical comments that introduce each chapter are bound to provoke discussion and response over the years to come. - Arthur Kleinman, MD Harvard Medical School.