Differences in Medicine: Unraveling Practices, Techniques, and Bodies

(Part of the Body, Commodity, Text Series)

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Western medicine--especially in contrast with non-Western traditions of medical practice--is widely thought of as a coherent and unified field in which beliefs, definitions, and judgments are shared. Marc Berg and Annemarie Mol debunk this myth with an interdisciplinary and intercultural collection of essays that reveals the significantly varied ways practitioners of "conventional" Western medicine handle bodies, study test results, configure statistics,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822321742

ISBN13:9780822321743

Release Date:June 1998

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:0.60 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.9" x 9.3"

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Differences in Medicine: Unraveling Practices, Techniques, and Bodies

(Part of the Body, Commodity, Text Series)

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