The Taste for Knowledge: Medical Anthropology Facing Medical Realities

by Mette Bech Risor and Hans Einar Hem

The Taste for Knowledge: Medical Anthropology Facing Medical Realities demonstrates how medical anthropology is becoming increasingly important in the fields of medical research and public health. The authors examine some of the major issues in medical anthropology today. In this volume, a group of international researchers reflect, for example, on: the way anthropology faces and deals with interdisciplinarity in its encounter with medicine...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8779345158
• ISBN13: 9788779345157
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Aarhus University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"