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Elucidate how the Navajo synthetic principle sa'ah naaghái bik'eh hózhó (SNBH) is understood, demonstrated, and elaborated in three different Navajo healing traditions.

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The whole universe is my cathedral: A contemporary Navajo spiritual synthesis

Discusses the three major spiritual healing ways used by Navajo Indians today.

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Jesus, peyote, and the holy people: Alcohol abuse and the ethos of power in Navajo healing

Examines the two more recent healing traditions as religious responses to the contemporary Navajo crisis of alcohol and substance abuse as well as to socioeconomics changes.

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Rethinking the role of diagnosis in Navajo religious healing

Examines the role of diagnosis in two Navajo religious healing traditions and examines a case study of diagnostic encounter between an NAC diagnostician and a Traditional patient.

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Depressive illness and Navajo healing

Suggests that, despite the explicit role of the sacred in the religious healing interventions available to Navajo patients, differences between biomedical and religious healing systems maybe less significance than their shared existential engagement of problems such as those glossed as depression.

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Intensification and the discourse of decline: A rhetoric of medical anthropology

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Measles, Hmong, and metaphor: Culture change and illness management under conditions of immigration

Discusses the themes of cyclical time, disease-causing spirits, the natural/supernatural dichotomy, and agricultural metaphors as applied to disease, as well as the growing adaptation to, use of, and interpretation of Western medicine by these immigrants.

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Fast relief: Buying time with medications

Examines the manner in which time demands shape lay interpretations of medicine efficacy and drive increases in medication use for adults as well as children.

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Female genital surgeries: The known, the unknown, and the unknowable

Reviews the literature on female genital surgeries and examines the extent to which available research supports commonly accepted "facts" about the prevalence and harmful effects of these practices, in particular their possible health complications, and their effect on sexuality.

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Machos and sluts: Gender, sexuality, and violence among a cohort of Puerto Rican adolescents

Describes the beliefs and rationale for gender-based violence among a cohort of low-income, predominantly second-generation, mainland Puerto Rican adolescents.

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Images and image: Technology and the social politics of revealing disorder in a North American hospital

Examines language, actions, and interactions in a multidisciplinary team of biomedical specialists whose members meet routinely to visually interpret and assess such images.

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Biomedicine on the spatial periphery: The (re)production of a metaphorical landscape by rural health care practitioners in Northern California

Examines the use of spatial concepts by rural health care practitioners in Northern California and suggests that rural and urban spatial metaphors are important means of expressing and (re)producing problems associated with their research for legitimacy and moral authority within a field of relations defined by biomedicine.

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Ahli Parlimen ingkar prinsip parti wajar dikira lompat parti

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The dark at the bottom of the stairs: Performance and participation of hospitalized older people

Discusses how some older people who are admitted to hospital as acute medical emergencies participate in staff's discursive practices to establish a positive clinical identity.

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Complementary and alternative medicine use among women with breast cancer

Results from a qualitative prospective cohort study challenge previous stereotypes by indicating that CAM usage does not increase dramatically with the initial diagnosis of cancer.

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"You are a number, not a human being": Israeli breast cancer patients' experiences with the medical establishment

Argues that the women used language as a means of resisting the medical culture's pattern of treating patients as "nonhumans"

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Training shopkeepers and schoolchildren in medicine use: Experiments in applied medical anthropology in East Africa

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Bahasa Melayu manifestasi Daken

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"Part and parcel of being a woman": Female urinary incontinence and constructions of control

Draws on extensive interviews with middle-aged Australian women experiencing urinary incontinence.

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Debilidad: A biocultural assessment of an embodied Andean illness

The study uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods and a political-economic and materialist-informed biocultural approach to explore this "women's illness" and why it is also experienced by men and children.

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Sacrifice, plants, and Western pharmaceuticals: Money and health care in northern Ghana

Discusses the role of money vis-a-vis health care among the Dagomba, an agrarian people living in northern Ghana, whose pluralistic medical culture involves the use of both plants and Western pharmaceuticals in the treatment of various symptoms.

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Health culture and the clinical encounter: Vietnamese refugees' responses to preventive drug treatment of inactive tuberculosis

The health culture elements that influence compliance and noncompliance by Vietnamese American clients with courses of preventive drug therapy for inactive TB.

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