Medical Materialities

Medical Materialities
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9780429853661
ISBN-13 : 0429853661
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Book Synopsis Medical Materialities by : Aaron Parkhurst

Download or read book Medical Materialities written by Aaron Parkhurst and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. The editors present and expand upon a definition of ‘medical materiality’, namely the social impact of the agency of often mundane, at times non-clinical, materials within contexts of health and illness, as caused by the properties and affordances of this material. The chapters address material culture in various clinical and biomedical contexts and in discussions that link the body and healing. The diverse ethnographic case studies provide valuable insight into the way cultures of medicine are understood and practised.


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