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

• मुख्य लेखक: Sylvie Fainzang (ed.) (auth)
• अन्य लेखक: Claudie Haxaire (ed.) (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Publicacions Universitat Rovira i Virgili 2011
• श्रृंखला: Antropologia Mèdica
• विषय: Medicine; anthropology; Medical Treatment
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: 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...