Social Lives of Medicines

Author: Susan Reynolds Whyte
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0521804698
Category: Medical

Social Lives of Medicines (Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology)

The focus of this book is medicines (swallowed, injected, rubbed on), as understood by anthropologists concerned solely with their social uses. Download Social Lives of Medicines medical books for free.
The text begins 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 popular subfields of cultural and social anthropology. Beginning in 2002, the CSMA series presents theme booksworks that synthesize emerging scholarship from relatively new subfields or that reinterpret the literature of older ones. Get Social Lives of Medicines our bestseller medical books.

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