The Anthropology of Health and Healing

by Mari Womack

Book Overview

The Anthropology of Health and Healing is the first text to take an integrative approach to the discipline of medical anthropology. In this book, Mari Womack champions a practice of medicine that includes the maintenance of health as well as treatment of illness, emphasizing the importance of lifestyle and the life cycle.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0759110441
• ISBN13: 9780759110441
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 367 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.9" x 9.9"