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  Berusaha, beramal kerana Allah

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  Menggilap mahkota tamadun Islam

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  Islam berjaya bentuk tamadun tinggi, mulia

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  The pollution of incontinence and the dirty work of caregiving in a U.S. nursing home

  Investigate how nursing assistants' continual contact with contaminating substances impacts their attitudes toward their work and themselves as workers.
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  From illness narratives to social commentary: A Pirandellian approach to "nerves"

  Examine some Sicilian-Canadian uses of "nerves" from a Pirandellian perspective.
• Texthealthtobacco...1 more

  Going like gangbusters: Transnational tobacco companies "making a killing" in South America

  Suggests that the transnational tobacco companies' (TTCs) marketing strategies override cultural differences in the choices people make regarding smoking and health.
• Texthealth caremedicinal plants

  Gendering local knowledge: Medicinal plant use and primary health care in Amazon

  Argues that policy makers must pay attention to the relationships among authority, gender, and local knowledge.
• Textmenopause

  How Japanese women talk about hot flushes: Implications for menopause research

  Examines the complexities involved in studying physiological symptoms.
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  The children of Yemen: Bodies, medicalization, and Nation-Building

  Provides a preliminary description, from an anthropological perspective, of what is called in Israel the "Yemenite children affair."
• Textnutrition

  "You ate all that!?": Caretaker-child interaction during children's assisted dietary recall interviews

  Guardian-child negotiations reflected cultural understandings regarding children, caretaking, and guardian-child power structures as well as food.
• Texttransplantation

  "They don't have to suffer for me": Why dialysis patients refuse offers of living donor kidneys

  Reports on patients' decisions to refuse living related donor (LRD) kidney offers and concludes that social relations, emotions, and ethnomedical beliefs play an important role in patients' treatment decisions.
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  Clinician experiences of managed mental health care: A rereading of the threat

• Textdiabetes

  "Actually, I don't feel that bad": Managing diabetes and the clinical encounter

  Suggests that medical compliance and non-compliance should be considered part of the rhetoric to be explained within the regimes of a pursuit of health.
• Texthypertensionplacebo effect

  Cultural variations in the placebo effect: Ulcers, anxiety, and blood pressure.

  Drug healing rates covary with placebo healing rates. Several factors can account for the dramatic variation in placebo healing rates, including cultural ones.
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  Menopause and the transmission of women's knowledge: African American and white women's perspectives

  Analysis of 70 interviews with African American women and Euro-American women shows that their perceptions of the intergenerational transfer of knowledge about menopause from their mothers shaped their attitudes toward menopause and the health-care technologies surrounding it.
• Texttraditional healing

  Concepts of illness and treatment practice in a caboclo community of the Lower Amazon

  Focuses on patterns of morbidity, treatment practices, and illness beliefs among caboclos of the Lower Amazon.
• Textpregnancy

  Seeking early care; The role of prenatal care advocates

  Investigates the role of social support in the initiation of prenatal care by analyzing data from interviewers with 36 pregnant women at public health facility in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
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  Preparing for motherhood: Authoritative knowledge and the undercurrents of shared experience in two childbirth education courses in Cagliari, Italy

  Examines the social processes and interactions that enabled women's experiential knowledge to dominate discussions and subsequently share in the authority of biomedical knowledge in some situations.
• Textfertilitypublic health

  Sterilizing vaccines or the politics of the womb: Retrospective study of a rumor in Cameroon

  Examines the historical context of Cameroonian experience with colonial vaccination campaigns and the contemporary contexts of the turmoil of democratization movements and economic crisis.
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  Pluralism and pragmatism : Knowledge and practice of birth in Morocco

  Examines knowledge and practice surrounding birth in Morocco, using women's narratives of their recent birth experiences, observations of medical encounters, and statements about prescribed behaviors during pregnancy and birth.
• Texttelehealthtelemedicine

  An overview of telemedicine: The virtual gaze of health care in the next century

  Considers the role of telemedicine in the production of biomedical health care using three specific theoretical constructs as lenses.
• Textmedical education

  Witnessing and the medical gaze: How medical students learn to see a clinic for the homeless

  Analyzes doctor-patient communication as it is taught to medical students in a student-run free clinic for the homeless.
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  Medicalizing homelessness: The production of self-blame and self-governing within homeless shelters

  draws upon three years of ethnographic research within an emergency homeless shelter in Massachusetts to explore the subject-making effects of routine shelter helping practices.
• Textpsychiatric disorder

  Taxonomic anxieties: Axis I and axis II in prison

  Describes the use of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychiatry in the prison setting.
• TextbisexualityHIV/AIDS

  Secret encounters: Black men, bisexuality, and Aids in Alabama

  The risks of bisexuality among black men are exacerbated by incarceration, homophobia, drug use, and the prison and public health focus on surveillance rather than prevention.
• Textbreast cancer

  Negotiating cultural consensus in a breast cancer self-help group

  Describes a shared model of the breast cancer experience negotiated by the members of a spontaneously organized breast cancer self-help group in eastern North Carolina.
• TextPolitik Malaysia

  Kuasa di 6 negeri tepati ramalan

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  Hanya lebih 60 peratus keluar mengundi

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  Sanusi menang lagi

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  Tok Mat puji kempen jentera PH-BN, PN

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  'Ahmad mahu undur diri kerana uzur'

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  SPR jangka 85% keluar mengundi

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  Keluar mengundi bawa suara rakyat

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  Undi rakyat penentu legasi enam negeri

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  Perantau tidak pulang mengundi

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  PH-BN dan PN terikat tiga negeri

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  'Keluar mengundi, usah hukum diri sendiri'

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  PRN penentu masa depan Selangor

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  'PKR akan ajar pengkhianat parti'

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  Jangkaan pengundi PRN hanya 70 peratus

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  20 medan tempur paling kedir

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  Lebih 93 peratus undi awal

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  Amirudin puas hati kerjasama PH-BN

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  Fitnah pembangkang gagal, PH-BN kini diyakini

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  Nasib orang Melayu dipertahankan

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  MB lawan bekas MB di Kedah

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  PH-BN sudah ada calon MB Kelantan

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  PN Pular Pinang umum manifesto

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  Syor denda RM1 juta khianat parti
  
  

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  Anwar yakin kekal 5 tahun