Many Voices: Medical Anthropologists Explore the Meaning of Health, Illness, and Cure

Authors

Michael Hass, Chapman UniversityFollow

Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

1997

Abstract

Lindenbaum, Shirley and Margaret Lock, eds. Knowledge, Power and Practice: The Anthropology of Medicine in Everyday Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. xvii + 242 pp. including notes, references, and indices. $50.00 cloth, $15.00 paper.

Etkin, Nina L. and Michael L. Tan, eds. Medicines: Meanings and Contexts. Quezon city, Philippines and Amsterdam: Health Action Information Network and the University of Amsterdam, 1994. v + 305 pp. $15.00 paper.

Good, Byron J. Medicine, Rationality, and Experience: an Anthropological Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. $54.95 Cloth, $17.95 paper.

Comments

This book review was originally published in Reviews in Anthropology , volume 26, issue 2-3, in 1997. https://doi.org/10.1080/00988157.1997.9978177

Recommended Citation

Hass, M. (1997). Many voices: Medical anthropologists explore the meaning of health, illness, and cure. Reviews in Anthropology, 26(2-3), 169-187. https://doi.org/10.1080/00988157.1997.9978177

Copyright

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