1st Edition

Advances In Medical Social Sciences

By Julio L. Ruffini Copyright 1984
424 Pages
by Routledge

424 Pages
by Routledge

First Published in 1984. The aim of this annual series is to increase communication between health social scientists and to show how anthropology, sociology, psychology, geography, economics and political science, all contribute to our understanding of health and illness, This first volume of devoted to an overall survey of the field. Future volumes will concern themselves with the most recent... Read more

Introduction to the Series, Psychology and the Health System, Trends and Developments in the Sociology of Medicine, Power, Health, and Service, Health: An Economist’s Perspective, Medical Geography, Medical Anthropology: A Critical Appraisal, Uses of Medical History, Beyond the Germ Theory : Reflections on Relations between Medicine and the Behavioral Sciences

Biography

JULIO L. RUFFINI Medical Anthropology Program, University of California, San Francisco