Pandora's Box : : Ethnography and the Comparison of Medical Beliefs / / Gilbert Lewis.
In this book, written between 1979 and 2020, Gilbert Lewis distills a lifetime of insights he garnered as a medical anthropologist. He asks: How do beliefs about illness in different societies influence their members' ability to heal? Despite the advances of Western medicine, what can it learn...
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