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Anthropology and International Health
South Asian Case Studies
Av M. Nichter
Inbunden, 1989
2254 kr
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In this book I present a series of eleven essays written between 1978 and 1987 on subjects relevant to the anthropology of health and international health. The issues addressed in these essays were investigated during 38 months of fieldwork in rural southwest peninsular India (197 4-86) and 15 …
Continuing Trial of Treatment
Medical Pluralism in Papua New Guinea
Av Stephen Frankel, Gilbert Lewis
Häftad, 1988
2189 kr
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Anthropology and International Health
South Asian Case Studies
Av M. Nichter
Häftad, 1989
2189 kr
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In this book I present a series of eleven essays written between 1978 and 1987 on subjects relevant to the anthropology of health and international health. The issues addressed in these essays were investigated during 38 months of fieldwork in rural southwest peninsular India (197 4-86) and 15 …
Social Science Perspectives on Medical Ethics
Av G. Weisz
Inbunden, 1989
2254 kr
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Medical or hio- ethics has in recent years been a growth industry. Journals, Centers and Associations devoted to the subject proliferate. Medical schools seem increasingly to be filling rare positions in the humanities and social sciences with ethicists. Hardly a day passes without some media …
Flower of Paradise
The Institutionalized Use of the Drug Qat in North Yemen
Av J.G. Kennedy
Inbunden, 1987
2254 kr
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This book concerns the use of the drug qat in North Yemen (Yemen Arab Republic), a country lying on the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. However, because this substance is so interwoven into the fabric of society and culture, it is also necessarily about Yemen itself. The history and …
Flower of Paradise
The Institutionalized Use of the Drug Qat in North Yemen
Av J.G. Kennedy
Häftad, 1987
2254 kr
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This book concerns the use of the drug qat in North Yemen (Yemen Arab Republic), a country lying on the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. However, because this substance is so interwoven into the fabric of society and culture, it is also necessarily about Yemen itself. The history and …
Child Survival
Anthropological Perspectives on the Treatment and Maltreatment of Children
Inbunden, 1987
2189 kr
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of older children, adults, and the family unit as a whole. These moral evaluations are, in turn, influenced by such external contingencies as popula tion demography, social and economic factors, subsistence strategies, house hold composition, and by cultural ideas concerning the nature of infancy …
Child Survival
Anthropological Perspectives on the Treatment and Maltreatment of Children
Häftad, 1987
2189 kr
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of older children, adults, and the family unit as a whole. These moral evaluations are, in turn, influenced by such external contingencies as popula tion demography, social and economic factors, subsistence strategies, house hold composition, and by cultural ideas concerning the nature of infancy …
Context of Medicines in Developing Countries
Studies in Pharmaceutical Anthropology
Av Sjaak van der Geest, Susan Reynolds Whyte
Inbunden, 1988
2591 kr
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Western pharmaceuticals are flooding the Third World. Injections, capsules and tablets are available in city markets and village shops, from 'traditional' practitioners and street vendors, as well as from more orthodox sources like hospitals. Although many are aware of this 'pharmaceutical …
Biomedicine Examined
Inbunden, 1988
2254 kr
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The culture of contemporary medicine is the object of investigation in this book; the meanings and values implicit in biomedical knowledge and practice and the social processes through which they are produced are examined through the use of specific case studies. The essays provide examples of how …
Biomedicine Examined
Häftad, 1988
2479 kr
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The culture of contemporary medicine is the object of investigation in this book; the meanings and values implicit in biomedical knowledge and practice and the social processes through which they are produced are examined through the use of specific case studies. The essays provide examples of how …
Continuing Trial of Treatment
Medical Pluralism in Papua New Guinea
Av Stephen Frankel, Gilbert Lewis
Häftad, 1988
2254 kr
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Normal and Abnormal Behavior in Chinese Culture
Av A. Kleinman, T.Y. Lin
Inbunden, 1980
2254 kr
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Our purpose in assembling the papers in this collection is to introduce readers to studies of normal and abnormal behavior in Chinese culture. We want to offer a sense o/what psychiatrists and social scientists are doing to advance our under standing of this subject, including what fmdings are …
Relevance of Social Science for Medicine
Häftad, 1980
569 kr
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The central purpose of this book is to demonstrate the relevance of social science concepts, and the data derived from empirical research in those sciences, to problems in the clinical practice of medicine. As physicians, we believe that the biomedical sciences have made - and will continue to make …
Cultural Context of Therapeutic Choice
Obstetrical Care Decisions Among the Bariba of Benin
Av C. Sargent
Inbunden, 1982
1131 kr
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This book examines the factors influencing women's choices of obstetrical care in a Bariba community in the People's Republic of Benin, West Africa. When selecting a research topic, I decided to investigate health care among the Bariba for several reasons. First, I had served as a Peace Corps …
Clinically Applied Anthropology
Anthropologists in Health Science Settings
Häftad, 1982
2254 kr
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like other collections of papers related to a single topic, this volume arose out of problem-sharing and problem-solving discussions among some of the authors. The two principal recurring issues were (1) the difficulties in translating anthropo logical knowledge so that our students could use it …
Cultural Conceptions of Mental Health and Therapy
Av Anthony J. Marsella, G. White
Häftad, 1984
1693 kr
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Within the past two decades, there has been an increased interest in the study of culture and mental health relationships. This interest has extended across many academic and professional disciplines, including anthropology, psychology, sociology, psychiatry, public health and social work, and has …
Physicians of Western Medicine
Anthropological Approaches to Theory and Practice
Av Robert A. Hahn, Atwood D. Gaines
Inbunden, 1984
2254 kr
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After putting down this weighty (in all senses of the word) collection, the reader, be she or he physician or social scientist, will (or at least should) feel uncomfortable about her or his taken-for-granted commonsense (therefore cultural) understanding of medicine. The editors and their …
Culture-Bound Syndromes
Folk Illnesses of Psychiatric and Anthropological Interest
Av Ronald C. Simons, C.C. Hughes
Inbunden, 1985
2254 kr
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In the last few years there has been a great revival of interest in culture-bound psychiatric syndromes. A spate of new papers has been published on well known and less familiar syndromes, and there have been a number of attempts to put some order into the field of inquiry. In a review of the …
Culture-Bound Syndromes
Folk Illnesses of Psychiatric and Anthropological Interest
Av Ronald C. Simons, C.C. Hughes
Häftad, 1985
2254 kr
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In the last few years there has been a great revival of interest in culture-bound psychiatric syndromes. A spate of new papers has been published on well known and less familiar syndromes, and there have been a number of attempts to put some order into the field of inquiry. In a review of the …
Physicians of Western Medicine
Anthropological Approaches to Theory and Practice
Av Robert A. Hahn, Atwood D. Gaines
Häftad, 1984
2254 kr
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After putting down this weighty (in all senses of the word) collection, the reader, be she or he physician or social scientist, will (or at least should) feel uncomfortable about her or his taken-for-granted commonsense (therefore cultural) understanding of medicine. The editors and their …
Culture and Retardation
Life Histories of Mildly Mentally Retarded Persons in American Society
Av L.L. Langness, Harold G. Levine
Inbunden, 1986
569 kr
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Mental retardation in the United States is currently defined as " ... signif icantly subaverage general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior, and manifested during the development period" (Grossman, 1977). Of the estimated six million plus mentally …
Culture and Retardation
Life Histories of Mildly Mentally Retarded Persons in American Society
Av L.L. Langness, Harold G. Levine
Häftad, 1987
569 kr
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Mental retardation in the United States is currently defined as " ... signif icantly subaverage general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior, and manifested during the development period" (Grossman, 1977). Of the estimated six million plus mentally …
Anthropology and Epidemiology
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Health and Disease
Häftad, 1986
1131 kr
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Over the past two decades increasing interest has emerged in the contribu tions that the social sciences might make to the epidemiological study of patterns of health and disease. Several reasons can be cited for this increasing interest. Primary among these has been the rise of the chronic, …
Normal and Abnormal Behavior in Chinese Culture
Av A. Kleinman, T.Y. Lin
Häftad, 2010
2254 kr
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Our purpose in assembling the papers in this collection is to introduce readers to studies of normal and abnormal behavior in Chinese culture. We want to offer a sense o/what psychiatrists and social scientists are doing to advance our under standing of this subject, including what fmdings are …
Cultural Context of Therapeutic Choice
Obstetrical Care Decisions Among the Bariba of Benin
Av C. Sargent
Häftad, 2011
1098 kr
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This book examines the factors influencing women's choices of obstetrical care in a Bariba community in the People's Republic of Benin, West Africa. When selecting a research topic, I decided to investigate health care among the Bariba for several reasons. First, I had served as a Peace Corps …
Social Science Perspectives on Medical Ethics
Av G. Weisz
Häftad, 2011
2189 kr
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Medical or hio- ethics has in recent years been a growth industry. Journals, Centers and Associations devoted to the subject proliferate. Medical schools seem increasingly to be filling rare positions in the humanities and social sciences with ethicists. Hardly a day passes without some media …
Context of Medicines in Developing Countries
Studies in Pharmaceutical Anthropology
Av Sjaak van der Geest, Susan Reynolds Whyte
Häftad, 2013
2516 kr
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Western pharmaceuticals are flooding the Third World. Injections, capsules and tablets are available in city markets and village shops, from 'traditional' practitioners and street vendors, as well as from more orthodox sources like hospitals. Although many are aware of this 'pharmaceutical …
