The tempering of medical anthropology: Troubling natural categories

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 478-492

  Lock, Margaret ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Formation of medical anthropology; Local biologies; Medicalization; Moral economy of science; Resistance

Indexed keywords

ART; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIOETHICS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FEMINISM; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MENOPAUSE; MORALITY; POPULATION GENETICS; REVIEW; SOCIOLOGY; STANDARD;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIOETHICS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FEMINISM; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMAN BODY; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MENOPAUSE; MORALS; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL;

EID: 0035753608     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/maq.2001.15.4.478     Document Type: Article

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