Martha L Hare
Biographic Data
| ID | 843224 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martha L Hare |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martha L |
| FAMILY NAME | Hare |
| SIGNATURE | HARE M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | New School |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Practitioners Working in Health
In this chapter, two practitioners from federal agencies draw on their extensive experience to give us an overview of how anthropology relates to health and medicine. The chapter explores practice in the field of health and describes some issues, challenges and rewards involved. Medical anthropology can be seen as a melding of anthropology's holism with the science demanded by medicine. The practicing anthropologist must learn to be comfortable w…
The promise of medical anthropology at the end of the twentieth century
Hahn, Robert A. Sickness and Healing: An Anthropological Perspective. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. 293 pp. including references and index. $20.00 paper. Laderman, Carol and Marina Roseman. The Performance of Healing. New York: Routledge, 1996. 322 pp. including references and index. $23.00 paper. Rush, John A. Clinical Anthropology: An Application of Anthropological Concepts Within Clinical Settings. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996. 258 pp…
The Emergence of an Urban U.S. Chinese Medicine
Fieldwork conducted among a diverse sample of non‐Asian patients of Chinese medicine in New York City during 1989 and 1990 showed that they are formulating models of health, illness, and healing based mainly upon their own bodily experience with therapy. They view the Chinese medical therapy that they receive as holistic, in contrast to the fragmentary nature of biomedicine. While some practitioners who were interviewed also spoke of personal enc…
The Emergence of an Urban U.S. Chinese Medicine
Fieldwork conducted among a diverse sample of non‐Asian patients of Chinese medicine in New York City during 1989 and 1990 showed that they are formulating models of health, illness, and healing based mainly upon their own bodily experience with therapy. They view the Chinese medical therapy that they receive as holistic, in contrast to the fragmentary nature of biomedicine. While some practitioners who were interviewed also spoke of personal enc…
The Emergence of an Urban U.S. Chinese Medicine
Fieldwork conducted among a diverse sample of non‐Asian patients of Chinese medicine in New York City during 1989 and 1990 showed that they are formulating models of health, illness, and healing based mainly upon their own bodily experience with therapy. They view the Chinese medical therapy that they receive as holistic, in contrast to the fragmentary nature of biomedicine. While some practitioners who were interviewed also spoke of personal enc…
The promise of medical anthropology at the end of the twentieth century
Hahn, Robert A. Sickness and Healing: An Anthropological Perspective. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. 293 pp. including references and index. $20.00 paper. Laderman, Carol and Marina Roseman. The Performance of Healing. New York: Routledge, 1996. 322 pp. including references and index. $23.00 paper. Rush, John A. Clinical Anthropology: An Application of Anthropological Concepts Within Clinical Settings. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996. 258 pp…
Practitioners Working in Health
In this chapter, two practitioners from federal agencies draw on their extensive experience to give us an overview of how anthropology relates to health and medicine. The chapter explores practice in the field of health and describes some issues, challenges and rewards involved. Medical anthropology can be seen as a melding of anthropology's holism with the science demanded by medicine. The practicing anthropologist must learn to be comfortable w…
Sociology (3 works) · Health care (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Alternative medicine (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Biomedicine (1 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (1 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (1 works)