About the origins of this volume

Beatrix Pfleiderer

pp. 7-9

in: Beatrix Pfleiderer, Gilles Bibeau (eds), Anthropologies of medicine, Wiesbaden, Vieweg+Teubner, 1991

Abstract

We, a group of medical anthropologists, met in Hamburg from December 4th to 8th, 1988 to discuss the various culture-specific (or nation-specific?) strands that had developed out of the new and — as we discovered — also old field of medical anthropology.