Medical anthropology : regional perspectives and shared concerns /

Medical anthropology : regional perspectives and shared concerns / edited by Francine Saillant and Serge Genest. - Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell, 2007. - xxxiii, 305 pages ; 26 cm.

"First published in France as Anthropologie médicale: ancrages locaux, défis globaux."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bioscience and biotechnology under ethnographic surveillance : where do Canadian medical anthropologists stand? / The anthropology of health in Québec : toward a blending of approaches and methods / Medical anthropology in the United States / Much more than medical anthropology : the healthy body and Brazilian identity / Medical anthropology in Mexico : recent trends in research and education / Medical anthropology in France : a healthy discipline / Topographies, folklore and medical anthropology in Spain / Suffering, politics, nation : a cartography of Italian medical anthropology / Medical anthropology(ies) in Germany / A cultural fascination with medicine : medical anthropology in the Netherlands / British medical anthropology : past, present and future / Anthropology between medicine and society : Swiss health interfaces / Engendering medical anthropology / The politics of life : beyond the anthropology of health / Gilles Bibeau, Janice E. Graham, and Usher Fleising -- Raymond Massé -- Arachu Castro and Paul Farmer -- Annette Leibing -- Maria Beatriz Duarte-Gómez, Roberto Campos-Navarro, and Gustavo Nigenda -- Sylvie Fainzang -- Josep M. Comelles, Enrique Perdiguero, and Angel Martínez-Hernáez -- Mariella Pandolfi and Gilles Bibeau -- Angelika Wolf, Stefan Ecks, and Johannes Sommerfeld -- Sjaak Van der Geest -- Ronald Frankenberg -- Ilario Rossi -- Carol H. Browner and Carolyn Sargent -- Didier Fassin.

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