Plague Doctors: Responding to the AIDS Epidemic in France and America

by Jamie L. Feldman

Plague Doctors highlights culturally based differences between French and American medicine, not only in health care delivery, but in the way each system constructs the interaction between disease and the human body. This work challenges the assumption that biomedicine is uniform across the western world. The author, a medical doctor and anthropologist, provides an ethnographic look into the daily experiences of physicians and researchers,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897893859
• ISBN13: 9780897893855
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"