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Edited by Shirley Lindenbaum and Margaret Lock. 428 pp. Berkeley, Calif., University of California Press, 1993. $50 (cloth); $15 (paper). ISBN 0-520-07784-9 (cloth)

Anthropology is training its sights on physicians. The ethnographer, no longer content with studying preliterate cultures and the Gururumba, Bunyoro, Tiwi, or Cheyenne, is subjecting us to critical examination. Be prepared to be startled. There is an uncanny self-consciousness, even dissonance, in having our sophisticated medical practices "uncovered" and contrasted, sometimes to our detriment, with "primitive" systems. Such exercises could contribute to our efforts to humanize medicine -- indeed, anthropology could help us find a universal ethos for medicine. Knowledge, Power and Practice admirably presents the power of such analyses; almost half its 15 essays are written in the mode . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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