Why the world needs (medical) anthropologists: Lessons from a (more than just a) handbook on medical anthropology

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  • Cristina Douglas University of Aberdeen

Abstract

Review: 

The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology. 2016. Edited by Lenore Manderson, Elizabeth Cartwright and Anita Hardon. New York: Routledge. XXIX + 393p. ISBN 9781138015630.

Author Biography

Cristina Douglas, University of Aberdeen

PhD candidate in Social Anthropology.

Cristina's research focuses on human-non-human relationship in older age, in particular in the context of dementia.

References

Tunstall, E. and Esperanza, J. 2016. “Decolonizing Anthropology Textbook Covers” Savage Minds. (Available at https://savageminds.org/2016/06/20/decolonizing-anthropology-textbook-covers/)

Astuti, Rita 2011. “Death, Ancestors, and the Living Dead: Learning without Teaching in Madagascar”. In Children’s Understanding of Death: From Biological to Religious Conceptions edited by Victoria Talwar, Paul L. Harris and Michael Schleifer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 1-18

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Published

2019-10-08

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Vol. 5 No. 1 (2019)

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