How is medical anthropology different from Western medicine?

a. It approaches the study of human health and sickness as biological and cultural phenomena.
b. It approaches human disease as a function of biology and culture.
c. It considers disease to be primarily a cultural function.
d. It approaches biological functions from a cross-cultural perspective using ethnomedicine as the correct solution.
e. It is the noninterventional and noninvasive study of disease, illness, and medicine.


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