ALLOPATHY GOES NATIVE: Traditional Versus Modern Medicine in Iran
London: Tauris Academic Studies, 2007. First printing. 211 pages. Allopathy is often described as "western" medicine, the antithesis of homeopathy. Health and Medical Practice in Iran is an ethnographic investigation of how allopathic knowledge, theories and practice guidelines come to be understood and applied by native practitioners in a non-western..... More