Social Lives of Medicines
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780521800259 (0521800250)
Publish date: January 1st 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
A professional/technical text in medical anthropology, but still accessible to the interested lay reader. It approaches the meaning of pharmaceuticals and medical technologies (materia medica) in different cultural contexts, including developed as well as developing countries. The authors hold the t...