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By Robert A. Hahn. 325 pp. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1995. $30. ISBN 0-300-06088-2.

Sickness and Healing is a book with a mission. Robert Hahn, an epidemiologist and anthropologist, intends to persuade his readers of the importance of incorporating an anthropologic perspective into the practice of biomedicine. Through theoretical discussions and practical examples, the author argues for the inclusion of sociocultural phenomena in medical epistemology and practice as a means of redressing the exclusion of patients' emotional experiences, social circumstances, and cultural influence.

The book includes a broad array of relevant topics and discussions. Information and analyses of specific theoretical debates are presented as compact subsections within larger sections. This format lends itself . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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