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<p>In this fully revised and updated second edition of <i>An Anthropology of Biomedicine</i>, authors Lock and Nguyen introduce biomedicine from an anthropological perspective, exploring the entanglement of material bodies with history, environment, culture, and politics. Drawing on historical and ethnographic work, the book critiques the assumption made by the biological sciences of a universal human body that can be uniformly standardized. It focuses on the ways in which the application of bio
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Lock, Margaret M., Nguyen, Vinh-Kim
- Publisher
- Wiley & Sons, Limited, John; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781405110716
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Sociology, Medical
- Rating
- 5 / 5 (1 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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