Medical Anthropology and the World System: Critical Perspectives
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Medical Anthropology and the World System: Critical Perspectives
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Now in its third edition, this textbook serves to frame understandings of health, health-related behavior, and health care in light of social and health inequality as well as structural violence. It also examines how the exercise of power in the health arena and in society overall impacts human health and well-being.
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