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

• Автор: Sylvie Fainzang (ed.) (auth)
• Інші автори: Claudie Haxaire (ed.) (auth)
• Формат: Електронний ресурс Частина з книги
• Мова: Англійська
• Опубліковано: Publicacions Universitat Rovira i Virgili 2011
• Серія: Antropologia Mèdica
• Предмети: Medicine; anthropology; Medical Treatment
• Онлайн доступ: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...