Medicine, Rationality and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective
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Medicine supposedly offers a scientific account of the human body and of illness, and it follows that scientific medicine treats all forms of folk medicine as little more than superstitious practices. Professor Good argues that this impoverished perspective neglects many facets of Western medical practice and obscures its kinship with healing in other traditions. Drawing o...more
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Published December 9th 1993 by Cambridge University Press
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