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

• Main Author: Sylvie Fainzang (ed.) (auth)
• Other Authors: Claudie Haxaire (ed.) (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Publicacions Universitat Rovira i Virgili 2011
• Series: Antropologia Mèdica
• Subjects: Medicine; anthropology; Medical Treatment
• Online Access: 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...