Illness, Bodies and Contexts: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Illness, Bodies and Contexts: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 365
Release : 2020-05-18
ISBN 10 : 9781848880283
ISBN 13 : 1848880286
Language : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL
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Illness, Bodies and Contexts: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Book Description:

This volume is a result of four days in July 2005, where historians, health economists, medical doctors and nurses, anthropologists, writers, sociologists and many more travelled to Oxford, England for the fourth annual 'Making Sense of Health, Illness and Disease' conference organised by Inter-Disciplinary.Net.

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