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Title

Personhood and illness among the Kulina

Description

Argues that the current medical anthropological fixation on the Body is neither good ethnography nor productive theory, and uses the Kulina example to illustrate how the cultural dimensions of personhood provide a more satisfactory framework for the understanding of illness.

Creator

Donald Pollock

Source

Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 10.3. Sept 1996. p. 319-341.
GN296 MAQ NO.3 1996.

Date

1996

Contributor

seah

Format

Article journal