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Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
medical anthropology quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.855
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1548-1387
pISSN - 0745-5194
DOI - 10.1111/j.1937-6219.1984.tb00960.x
Subject(s) - ethnography , dilemma , medical anthropology , sociology , medicine , gender studies , gerontology , anthropology , philosophy , epistemology
Book reviewed in this article: Blood and Nerves: An Ethnographic Focus on Menopause . Dona Lee Davis. Handbook of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology . Lorraine Dennerstein and Graham D. Burrows The Young Woman: Psychosomatic Aspects of Obstetrics and Gynaecology . Lorraine Dennerstein and Myriam De Senarclens Beyond Sixty‐Five: The Dilemma of Old Age in America's Past . Carol Haber. Age or Need?: Public Policies for Older People . Bernice L Neugarten Chronic Pain: Its Social Dimensions . Joseph A. Kotarba. Women and the Psychiatric Paradox . P. Susan Penfold and Gillian A. Walker. Sorcerers and Healing Spirits: Continuity and Change in an Aboriginal Medical System . Janice Reid. Having Epilepsy: The Experience and Control of Illness . Joseph W. Schneider and Peter Conrad. Mental Health and Aging: Programs and Evaluations . Michael A. Smyer and Margaret Gatz Health in the Guatemalan Highlands . Ulli Steltzer. Silent Violence: Food, Famine, and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria . Michael Watts. Poppies, Pipes, and People: Opium and Its Uses in Laos . Joseph Westermeyer .