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In this moving and thought-provoking volume, Arthur Kleinman tells the unsettling stories of a ha...

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What is the relationship between social science research and public health policy, particularly i...

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A collection of original essays that address the ways in which violence manifests itself on socie...

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A moving memoir and an extraordinary love story that shows how an expert physician became a famil...

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What is the meaning of human suffering for society? How has this meaning changed from the past to...

Ethnographic case studies focused on the dynamics of the burgeoning international pharmaceutical ...