Knowledge, Power, and Practice: The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life Volume 36

Bys: Shirley Lindenbaum and Margaret M. Lock

Book Overview

These original essays, which combine theoretical argument with empirical observation, constitute a state-of-the-art platform for future research in medical anthropology. Ranging in time and locale, the essays are based on research in historical and cultural settings. The contributors accept the notion that all knowledge is socially and culturally constructed and examine the contexts in which that knowledge is produced and practiced in medicine, psychiatry,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520077857
• ISBN13: 9780520077850
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"