Social Lives of Medicines by Anita Hardon, Susan Reynolds Whyte, Sjaak Van Der Geest

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The focus of this book is medicines (swallowed, injected, rubbed on), as understood by anthropologists concerned solely with their social uses. The text begins with examples of a mother medicating a child in various cultural contexts and ends with...

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