On Knowing and Not Knowing in the Anthropology of Medicine (One World Archaeology)

by RolandLittlewood (Editor)

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  Paperback
  2007

  $43.55

  Social scientific studies of medicine typically assume that systems of medical knowledge are uniform and consistent. This volume considers the theoretical, methodological, and ethnographic implications of the fact that medical knowledge is frequently dynamic, incoherent, and contradictory, and that our understanding of it is incomplete.