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(Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series.) By Byron J. Good. 242 pp. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1994. $54.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). ISBN 0-521-41558-6 (cloth)

In this book, an outstanding medical anthropologist reinterprets the world of medicine, as seen through the eyes of the practitioner. The material was presented in the framework of the Morgan lectures in Rochester, New York, an annual event in memory of one of the founders of modern anthropology. The book reflects more than two decades of Good's work as a researcher, writer, and teacher and provides a theoretical overview of his discipline and a cultural analysis of modern medicine.

Medical anthropology has grown from the special interest of a fringe group of scholars in the 1950s and 1960s to a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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