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Medical Materialities

Toward a Material Culture of Medical Anthropology

Herausgeber: Parkhurst, Aaron; Carroll, Timothy

Beschreibung

Medical Materialities investigates possible points of cross-fertilisation between medical anthropology and material culture studies, and considers the successes and limitations of both sub-disciplines as they attempt to understand places, practices, methods, and cultures of healing..

Autor

Aaron Parkhurst is a lecturer in Biosocial Medical Anthropology at University College London, UK, with a focus on the anthropology of the human body, and the anthropology and bioethics of emerging technology. Timothy Carroll is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology at University College London, UK, studying end-of-life and post-mortem care amongst Orthodox Christians in Britain.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9781138314290
• ISBN-10: 1138314293
• Artikelnr.: 55044852