Anthropology of Biomedicine

by Margaret M. Lock, Nguyen Vinh-Kim, Vinh-Kim Nguyen

Book Overview

An Anthropology of Biomedicine is an exciting new introduction to biomedicine and its global implications. Focusing on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies bring about radical changes to societies at large, cultural anthropologist Margaret Lock and her co-author physician and medical anthropologist Vinh-Kim Nguyen develop and integrate the thesis that the human body in health and illness is the elusive product of nature and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1405110716
• ISBN13: 9781405110716
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 506 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.7" x 9.6"