Of Bodies and Symptoms. Anthropological Perspectives on their Social and Medical Treatment

The question of the social treatment of the body and its transformations emerges in relation to issues of varying types (economic, therapeutic, ideological, cultural, aesthetic commercial, technical). This book examines the various ways of managing bodily symptoms or transformations and the social s...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Publicacions Universitat Rovira i Virgili 2011
Series:Antropologia Mèdica
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