medical anthropology

is concerned with descriptions and analyzes of medical systems which emerge from human attempts to survive disease and surmount death, and are conceptualized as social responses to illness and the sick role within the variety of world culture.

descriptions and analyses of medical systems which emerge from human attempts to survive disease and surmount death, and are conceptualized as social responses to illness and the sick role within the variety of world cultures. . . a study of medical thought and problem solving, the acculturation process of the healer and physician in diverse cultural settings, and the social and cultural context of medicine. . . demonstrating how culture human belief, knowledge, and action structures the human experience of disease, affects the ways in which both physicians and patients perceive and define illness, and influences the matrices of decision making in the subcultures attempting to communicate about problems of health care. [p. ix]

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