The misconstruction of critical medical anthropology: A response to a cultural constructivist critique

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1565-1573

  Baer, Hans A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical medical anthropology; Cultural constructivism

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECOLOGY; SOCIOLOGY; TEAMWORK;

ANTHROPOLOGY; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POLITICAL SYSTEMS; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0031003944     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(96)00388-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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