Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care

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Essential Subtleties on the Silver Sea: The Yin-Hai Jing-Wei: A Chinese Classic on Ophthalmology

Jürgen Kovacs and Paul U. Unschuld, translated from the Chinese and annotated by
Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care, 38
$80.00, £55.00 Hardcover
February 1999

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The Possessed and the Dispossessed: Spirits, Identity, and Power in a Madagascar Migrant Town

Lesley A. Sharp
Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care, 37
$31.95, £21.95 Paperback
December 1996

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Knowledge, Power, and Practice: The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life

Shirley Lindenbaum and Margaret Lock, editors
Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care, 36
$36.95, £25.95 Paperback
October 1993

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Ngoma: Discourses of Healing in Central and Southern Africa

John M. Janzen
Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care, 34
$60.00, £41.95 Hardcover
October 1992

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Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge

Charles Leslie and Allan Young, editors
Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care, 32
$31.95, £21.95 Paperback
June 1992

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Pain as Human Experience: An Anthropological Perspective

Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Paul E. Brodwin, Byron J. Good, and Arthur Kleinman, editors
Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care, 31
$29.95, £19.95 Paperback
November 1994

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The Social Basis of Health and Healing in Africa

Steven Feierman and John M. Janzen, editors
Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care, 30
$32.95, £22.95 Paperback
September 1992

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Taming the Wind of Desire: Psychology, Medicine, and Aesthetics in Malay Shamanistic Performance

Carol Laderman
Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care, 29
$31.95, £21.95 Paperback
March 1993

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Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest: Temiar Music and Medicine

Marina Roseman
Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care, 28
$29.95, £19.95 Paperback
March 1993

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Emptying Beds: The Work of an Emergency Psychiatric Unit

Lorna Rhodes
Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care, 27
$29.95, £19.95 Paperback
November 1995