Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology – serie
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Meaning, Medicine and the 'Placebo Effect'
Häftad, 2002
390 kr
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Daniel Moerman presents an innovative and enlightening discussion of human reaction to the meaning of medical treatment. Traditionally, the effectiveness of medical treatments is attributed to specific elements, such as drugs or surgical procedures, but many things happen in medicine which simply …
Community Participation in Health
The Politics of Primary Care in Costa Rica
Av Lynn M. Morgan, Alan Harwood
Häftad, 2006
636 kr
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A guiding principle of international primary health care since the 1970s is contained in the slogan, 'community participation in health'. In practice, however, national and local political considerations are often decisive in the implementation of health policies. Dr Morgan shows how 'community …
Community Participation in Health
The Politics of Primary Care in Costa Rica
Av Lynn M. Morgan, Alan Harwood
Inbunden, 1993
1389 kr
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A guiding principle of international primary health care since the 1970s is contained in the slogan, 'community participation in health'. In practice, however, national and local political considerations are often decisive in the implementation of health policies. Dr Morgan shows how 'community …
Embodiment and Experience
The Existential Ground of Culture and Self
Häftad, 1994
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455 kr
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Students of culture have been increasingly concerned with the ways in which cultural values are 'inscribed' on the body. These essays go beyond this passive construal of the body to a position in which embodiment is understood as the existential condition of cultural life. From this standpoint …
Schizophrenia, Culture, and Subjectivity
The Edge of Experience
Av Janis Hunter Jenkins, Janis Hunter Jenkins m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
764 kr
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This volume brings together a number of the foremost scholars - anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and historians - studying schizophrenia, its subjective dimensions, and the cultural processes through which these are experienced. Based on research undertaken in Australia, Bangladesh, …
An Ecology of High-Altitude Infancy
A Biocultural Perspective
Häftad, 2004
716 kr
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Andrea Wiley investigates the ecological, historical, and socio-cultural factors that contribute to the peculiar pattern of infant mortality in Ladakh, a high-altitude region in the western Himalayas of India. Ladakhi newborns are extremely small at birth, smaller than those in other high-altitude …
Medicine and Morality in Haiti
The Contest for Healing Power
Häftad, 1996
637 kr
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Morality and medicine are inextricably intertwined in rural Haiti, and both are shaped by the different local religious traditions, Christian and Vodoun, as well as by biomedical and folk medical practices. When people fall ill, they seek treatment not only from Western doctors but also from …
Doctors for Democracy
Health Professionals in the Nepal Revolution
Inbunden, 1998
1644 kr
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This book examines the role of the Nepali physicians in the revolutionary changes in 1990. These doctors are trained in the Western tradition, and participate in international scientific debates, yet they have always been concerned to develop a form of medical practice that was relevant to Nepali …
Doctors for Democracy
Health Professionals in the Nepal Revolution
Av Vincanne Adams, Alan Harwood
Häftad, 1998
787 kr
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This book examines the role of the Nepali physicians in the revolutionary changes in 1990. These doctors are trained in the Western tradition, and participate in international scientific debates, yet they have always been concerned to develop a form of medical practice that was relevant to Nepali …
Questioning Misfortune
The Pragmatics of Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda
Av Susan Reynolds Whyte, Alan Harwood
Inbunden, 1998
1302 kr
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Some of the most interesting ethnographies of experience are concerned to highlight the indeterminate nature of life. Questioning Misfortune is very much within this tradition. Based on a long-term study of adversity and its social causes in Bunyole, eastern Uganda, it considers the way in which …
Questioning Misfortune
The Pragmatics of Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda
Av Susan Reynolds Whyte, Alan Harwood
Häftad, 1998
667 kr
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Some of the most interesting ethnographies of experience are concerned to highlight the indeterminate nature of life. Questioning Misfortune is very much within this tradition. Based on a long-term study of adversity and its social causes in Bunyole, eastern Uganda, it considers the way in which …
Pragmatic Women and Body Politics
Av Margaret Lock, Patricia Alice Kaufert
Inbunden, 1998
1253 kr
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This thought-provoking volume compares the responses of women in a variety of countries and cultural settings to modern medical technologies. The contributors describe how women in East Africa deal with infertility, how American women respond to pre-natal diagnostic screening, how women in China …
Pragmatic Women and Body Politics
Av Margaret Lock, Patricia Alice Kaufert
Häftad, 1998
634 kr
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This thought-provoking volume compares the responses of women in a variety of countries and cultural settings to modern medical technologies. The contributors describe how women in East Africa deal with infertility, how American women respond to pre-natal diagnostic screening, how women in China …
The Transmission of Chinese Medicine
Häftad, 1999
471 kr
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This is one of the first studies of traditional medical education in an Asian country. Conducting extensive fieldwork in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province in the People's Republic of China, Elisabeth Hsu became the disciple of, a Qigong master a scholarly private practitioner, who almost …
Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies
Intersections of Inquiry
Av Margaret M. Lock, Margaret Lock m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
634 kr
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This stimulating collection of essays is the product of face-to-face dialogues among anthropologists, sociologists, and philosopher-historians, all of whom focus their attention on the newly created biomedical technologies and their application in practice. Drawing on ethnographic and historical …
Epidemiology and Culture
Av James A. Trostle, Alan Harwood
Inbunden, 2005
1090 kr
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This book shows how practitioners in the emerging field of 'cultural epidemiology' describe human health, communicate with diverse audiences, and intervene to improve health and prevent disease. It uses textual and statistical portraits of disease to describe past and present collaborations between …
Epidemiology and Culture
Häftad, 2005
422 kr
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This book shows how practitioners in the emerging field of 'cultural epidemiology' describe human health, communicate with diverse audiences, and intervene to improve health and prevent disease. It uses textual and statistical portraits of disease to describe past and present collaborations between …
Social Lives of Medicines
Av Susan Reynolds Whyte, Sjaak van der Geest m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
406 kr
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Medicines are the core of treatment in biomedicine, as in many other medical traditions. As material things, they have social as well as pharmacological lives, with people and between people. They are tokens of healing and hope, as well as valuable commodities. Each chapter of this book shows drugs …
Meaning, Medicine and the 'Placebo Effect'
Av Daniel E. Moerman, Alan Harwood
Inbunden, 2002
1286 kr
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Daniel Moerman presents an innovative and enlightening discussion of human reaction to the meaning of medical treatment. Traditionally, the effectiveness of medical treatments is attributed to specific elements, such as drugs or surgical procedures, but many things happen in medicine which simply …
Schizophrenia, Culture, and Subjectivity
The Edge of Experience
Av Janis Hunter Jenkins, Robert John Barrett
Inbunden, 2003
1856 kr
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This volume brings together a number of the foremost scholars - anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and historians - studying schizophrenia, its subjective dimensions, and the cultural processes through which these are experienced. Based on research undertaken in Australia, Bangladesh, …
An Ecology of High-Altitude Infancy
A Biocultural Perspective
Inbunden, 2004
1481 kr
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Andrea Wiley investigates the ecological, historical, and socio-cultural factors that contribute to the peculiar pattern of infant mortality in Ladakh, a high-altitude region in the western Himalayas of India. Ladakhi newborns are extremely small at birth, smaller than those in other high-altitude …
