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  Observation on Amantis reticulata (Haan) In Brunei

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  The story catches you and you fall down: Tragedy, ethnography, and "cultural competence"

  The relationship between theory, narrative form, and teaching through a close critical reading of that book that is informed by theories of tragedy and ethnographies of medicine.
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  Trading nutrition for education: Nutritional status and the sale of snack foods in an eastern Kentucky school

  A biocultural approach to understanding the nutritional status of elementary school children in a rural community in eastern Kentucky.
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  Death, taxes, public opinion, and then Midas touch of Mary Tyler Moore: Accounting for promises by politicians to help avert and control diabetes

  The some findings from an ethnographic study of how diabetes gained recognition as a pressing public health problem in Canada.
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  The work of Andrew Weil and Deepak Chopra-Two holistic health/ New Age gurus: A critique of the holistic health/New Age movements

  Brief biographical sketches of Weil and Chopra and compares and contrasts their respective views on health, illness, healing, and health care.
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  Risk and danger among women-who-prostitute in areas where farmworkers predominate

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  Why nation-states and journalists can't teach people to be healthy: Power and pragmatic miscalculation in public discourses on health

  How Venezuelan public health officials collaborated with journalists in producing information about cholera in January-December 1991.
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  Authoritative knowledge and single women's unintentional pregnancies, abortions, adoption, and single motherhood: Social stigma and structural violence

  The sources of authoritative knowledge that shaped single, white, middle-class women's unintentional pregnancies and child-bearing decisions throughout five reproductive eras.
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  The idea of health: History, medical pluralism, and the management of the body in Emilia-Romagna, Italy

  A complex field of health factors in relation to historical processes and a system of medical pluralism.
• TextADHDpsychiatric disorder

  Gender variation in the identification of Mexican children's psychiatric symptoms

  Objective measures of children's hyperactive and inattentive behavior, derived from ethological observation and activity monitoring, are used as a control in regression analyses.
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  The health consequences of female circumcision: Science, advocacy, and standards of evidence

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  Syndemics and public health: Reconceptualizing disease in bio-social context

  The term syndemic has been introduced recently by medical anthropologists to label the synergistic interaction of two or more coexistent diseases and resultant excess burden of disease.
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  Migratory journeys and tuberculosis risk

  The dominant biomedical explanation of immigrant tuberculosis could be modified with the incorporation of the migratory process as a risk factor.
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  Using home gardens to decipher health and healing in the Andes

  The natural history of home gardens mirrors transformations within the family, and that Saraguro women study the contents of their neighbors' gardens, using this knowledge as a foundation for deciphering the owner's economic and health status.
• Textmedicinal plants

  Contextualizing the politics of knowledge: Physicians' attitudes toward medicinal plants

  How does a group of public health physicians in the urban Amazon value medicinal plant knowledge.
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  Nostalgia and degeneration: The moral economy of drinking in Navajo society

  How do some members of Navajo society use narratives regarding alcohol and drinking to comment on cultural degeneration and the decay of the traditional Navajo moral economy?
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  "The hands know': Bodily engagement and medical impasse in highland Maya bonesetting

  Examines how Maya bonesetters work in an environment hostile to their craft and explores some important vectors of bodily and ideological engagement between Maya bonesetting and Guatemalan biomedicine.
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  The power of words: Healing narratives among Lubavitcher Hasidim

  Examines how a group of Lubavitcher Hasidic Jews deals with sickness and the relation between the group's use of biomedicine and religious healing.
• Textmenopause

  Comparison of the menopause and midlife transition between Japanese American And European American women

  Study compared the perceptions and experiences of the midlife transition among Japanese American and European American women.
• Textfetal discourse

  Deconstructing pregnancy: RU486, seeing "eggs," and the ambiguity of very early conceptions

  Deconstructs previous notions of pregnancy.
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  Malaysia, Singapura sepakat isu salur bantuan ke Palestin.

  Malaysia dan Singapura bersepakat untuk menggesa genjatan senjata dikuatkuasakan di Gaza dan mendesak rejim Zionis untuk menghentikan serangan ke atas orang awam.
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  Status incongruity in Samoan youth: A biocultural analysis of culture change, stress, and immune function

  Explores the degree to which new and old markers of social status agree-or disagree-and the consequences they have for the experience of stress in 329 Somoa adolescents.
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  Giving birth to gonolia: "Culture" and sexually transmitted disease among the Huli of Papua New Guinea

  Argues for the importance of a sociology of knowledge approach to understanding local nations of etiology.
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  African Independent Churches in Mozambique: Healing the afflictions of inequality

  Argues that growing inequality has led to declining social cohesion, heightened individual competition, fear of interpersonal violence, and intensified conflict between spouses in poor families.
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  Mangsa Bom 'Gila'.

  Rakyat Palestine sengsara kulit tubuh cair dan melecur teruk terkena bom fosforus putih yang dijatuhkan oleh pesawat tentera Israel. Bom tersebut telah diharamkan di peringkat antarabangsa namun tentera Israel tetap menggunakannya bagi membunuh dan menyeksa seramai mungkin penduduk Palestine di Tebing Gaza.
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  "She drank his money": Survival sex and the problem of violence in taverns in Gauteng province, South Africa

  Examines the practice of "survival sex" in the taverns of Soweto and Hammanskraal area, South Africa.
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  Kunyenga, "real sex'" and survival: Assessing the risk of HIV infection among urban street boys in Tanzania

  Examines possible avenues of HIV infection among urban street boys in Tanzania and questions the ways that AIDS researchers have defined and approached the phenomenon of "survival sex" in East and Central Africa.
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  Pain as a counterpoint to culture: Toward an analysis of pain associated with infibulation among Somali immigrants in Norway

  Focuses on how some Somali women experience and reflect on the pain of infibulation as a lived bodily experience within shifting social and cultural framework.
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  Narrative mediation of conventional and new "mental health" paradigms: Reading the stories of immigrant Iranian women

  Explores issues with reference to the subject of the "mental health" or emotional well-being of a cohort of postrevolution Iranian women from metropolitan Vancouver, British Columbia.
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  Makanan haram penyubur keganasan

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  Islam dan perlembagaan Malaysia

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  Umat Islam perlu sentiasa berakhlak mulia

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  Mengawal lidah tidak bertulang

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  Sifat berterima kasih, bersyukur

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  The role and meaning of susto in Mexican Americans' explanatory model of type 2 diabetes

  Examines the role and meaning of susto(fright) in Mexican Americans' explanatory model of type 2 diabetes.
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  Ajaran sesat haramkan ibadah haji

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  Derma organ : Ramai masih ragu

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  Kena bedah tanpa bius.

  Kena bedah tanpa bius merupakan langkah drastik diambil untuk merawat mangsa pengebom Zionis akibat bekalan ubat yang sudah kritikal di Gaza. Ramai mangsa yang cedera terpaksa menjalani pembedahan di hospital tanpa menggunakan anestetik iaitu ubat bius.
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  The sound of barking dogs: Violence and terror among Salvadoran families in the postwar

  Examines the transgenerational transmission of trauma among campesinos living in rural, repopulated community in El Salvador.
• Textsmoking

  Why do teens smoke? American Indian and Hispanic adolescents' perspectives on functional values and addiction

  Examines reasons that Hispanic and American Indian youths give to explain their smoking.
• Texthypertension

  Articulating silences: Experiential and biomedical constructions of hypertension symptomatology

  Explores the flexible configuration of a local knowledge system about hypertension symptoms, foregrounding it against prevailing biomedical assertions regarding the asymptomatic or "silent" nature of hypertension.
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  Ketua Jemaah guna jin kawal pengikut

• Textinequalitymanaged care

  Managed care or managed inequality? A call for critiques of market-based medicine

  Critiques the growing dominance of market-based medicine in the United states against the background of existing problems with quality of care, rising costs, devaluation of doctor-patient relationships, and, especially, persistent inequalities of access and outcomes.
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  Antara akal dan iman

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  Pengertian dua kalimah syahadah

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  "New beginnings": A case study in gay men's changing perceptions of quality of life during the course of HIV infection

  Reports results of an ethnographic study that sought to understand how a cohort of gay men living with HIV infection evaluated and worked to preserve or improve the quality of their lives.
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  "New beginnings": A case study in gay men's changing perceptions of quality of life during the course of HIV infection

  Reports results of an ethnographic study that sought to understand how a cohort of gay men living with HIV infection evaluated and worked to preserve or improve the quality of their lives.
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  Nafkah isteri berkerjaya

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  Gelaran agama tidak wujud dalam Islam

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  Interpretations of condom use and nonuse among young Norwegian gay men: A qualitative study

  Discusses young gay Norwegian men's interpretations of condom use and nonuse.