The Mindful Body: A Prolegomenon to Future Work in Medical Anthropology

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1987, Pages 6-41

  Scheper‐Hughes, Nancy ^a   Lock, Margaret M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 84995684487     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: 15481387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/maq.1987.1.1.02a00020     Document Type: Article

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