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This book is designed to with the critical themes and issues in Medical Anthropology. Medical Anthropology is an interdisciplinary bio-cultural discipline cutting across the boundaries of Epidemiology, Sociology, Human Genetics and Community Pubic Health. Anthropological orientations in studying human behavior related to health and offer useful insights to physicians researchers and paramedical staff working especially in remote and rural areas. Anthropological sophistication fosters a questioning attitude towards medical practices, modern as well as traditional, which may be introduced in the un/under developed areas where the natives culture is taken for granted by the planners without adequate support from well controlled studies. Although this book is to be a source book for all the researchers and teachers of in Indian Universities and Colleges at various levels, all those who are working in the of health, illness and healing, it is hoped, would find it useful in some way other. The last chapter on paradigms would doubt would be of interest to many others.
ISBN : 9788183871846
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Pages : 127
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