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• Textbioethics

  A discourse of relationships in bioethics: Patient autonomy and end-of-life decision making among elderly Korean Americans

  Reports on an interview with a 79-year-old typical Korean American respondent to explain the contradiction in the survey data.
• Texthealth statussocioeconomic status

  Culture, socioeconomic status, and physical and mental health in Brazil

  Examines a cultural dimension of socioeconomic status in a Brazilian city through the use of ethnographic and social survey techniques.
• Textmaternal-child healthmedicine

  "Milk makes me sick but my body needs it": Conflict and contradiction in the establishment of authoritative knowledge

  Takes lactose intolerance as a topic for exploring clashes of power, authority, and knowledge in clinical interactions and interpretations of laywomen.
• Textadolescencesexuality

  The gamesmanship of sex: A model based on African American adolescent accounts

  Examines adolescent understanding of the social context of sexual behavior.
  Concludes by examining the meanings that sex-related behavior may have for adolescents and the potential use of social knowledge for facilitating adolescent health.
• Textmenopausesociocultural change

  Blood and nerves revisited: Menopause and the privatization of the body in a Newfoundland postindustrial fishery

  Ethnographic data from a longitudinal, interpretive study of women's changing social and cultural constructions of menopause in a postindustrial, Newfoundland fishing village indicate that three major changes have taken place in the way women conceptualize female, reproductive life-cycle events and processes.
• Texthealing

  Earliest phases in the evolution of sickness and healing

  Reviews and analyses the early phases of the evolution, those bearing the most apparent influences of the environment of evolutionary adaptedness.
• Textbreast-feedinginsufficient milk...1 more

  Privileged knowledge and mothers' "Perceptions": The case of breast-feeding and insufficient milk in Bangladesh

  Uses the example of breast-feeding and insufficient-milk syndrome in Bangladesh to illustrate the privileged status of professional discourse.
• Texthealth care

  Politics, practical logic, and primary health care in rural Haiti

  Examines how local residents pushed the project, "Rural Health Delivery System" in unpredictable and ironic directions based on fieldwork in a single village.
• TextSTDSTD prevention...1 more

  Verbal intercourse and sexual communication: Impediments to STD prevention

  Explores the problems of risky sexual behavior by examining the ways people verbally negotiate sexual interaction regarding sexually transmitted diseases.
• Still Imagedecision makinghealth behavior

  Studying knowledge, culture, and behavior in applied medical anthropology

  Argues that the concept of knowledge, as utilized by public health professionals, is best regarded as cultural belief, as defines in anthropology.
• Texthealth messages

  Television minidramas: Social marketing and evaluation in Egypt

  Reviews the context and content of televised health messages in Egypt during 1980s, critically assesses the evaluation of mass media health education, and suggests strategies for more effective evaluation.
• Textethnomedical knowledgehealth care...1 more

  Sociocultural aspects of tuberculosis control in Ethiopia

  Examines ethnomedical knowledge and practices related to tuberculosis conceptualization and management in a rural southern Ethiopian community.
• Textdengue feverethnoecology...1 more

  The ethnoecology of dengue fever

  Employs an ethnoecological analysis to link indigenous, ethnomedical, and Western biomedical ideas of infectious disease causation/prevention.
• Textdecision modelstreatment choices

  Predicting treatment-seeking behavior in Guatemala: A decision-theoretic approaches

  Attempts to identify and describe factors associated with the choice of a health care source in rural Guatemala.
• Texthealthidentity...1 more

  Seminal truth: A modern science of male celibacy in North India

  Shows how a discourse about sex, semen, and health is conceived of in terms of embodied truth through an examination of the popular Hindi literature on brahmacharya, interpreted within the context of therapeutic celibacy as put in practice by a modern yoga society.
• Textalcoholclinical approaches

  Toward a (dys)functional anthropology of drinking: Ambivalence and the American Indian experience with alcohol

  Explores the complex and contradictory experiences of urban American Indian drinkers.
• Textclinical encountersphysiotherapy

  Three voices in a Norwegian living room: An encounter from physiotherapy practice

  Demonstrates how uses of the body regulate togetherness and availability in clinical encounters.
  Centers on the process of interaction, specifically on verbal and bodily actions pertaining to developing role negotiations.
• TextDoctor-patient discoursesemiotics

  Discourse, power, and the diagnosis of weakness: Encountering practitioners in Bangladesh

  Argues that discursive phenomena above and below the lexical level are responsible.
• TextgenderHIV/AIDS...1 more

  Urban low-income African American men, HIV?AIDS, and gender identity

  Suggests that perhaps the key to better understanding sex-related health-risk behavior is to conduct more systematic research on gender identity, and the historical and sociocultural origins of such identities.
• Textcancerheart disease...2 more

  Signifying the pandemics: Metaphors of AIDS, cancer, and heart disease

  Offers a symbolic analysis of the cultural construction and signification of three of the major "pandemics" of the late 20th century: AIDS, cancer, and heart disease.
• TextanthropologyHIV/AIDS

  Conjuring medical science: The 1986 referendum on AIDS/HIV policy in California

  Uses the frameworks to explore the cultural construction of medical-scientific authority in the case of a 1986 referendum on AIDS/HIV policy in California.
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  Brunei Bibliography in The JSBRAS and JMBRAS

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  A SEBOB DIRGE

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  THE AIMS, APPROACHES AND PROBLEMS IN THE STUDY OF FOLK LITERATURE OR ORAL TRADITON WITH PARTICULAR REFRENCE TO MALAY CULTURE

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  Comparative Linguistics In Southeast-Asia: its Scope and Method Of Approach

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  The Survival Of Kendayan Rafts

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  First Pharases Of A brunei Child

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  The Mission Of Father Antonino Ventimiglia To Borneo

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  Antother Affair Of James Brooke

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  Ampuan In Brunei

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  Untransfiguring death : Rape, drunkenness, development and homicide in an apprehensive void

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  Marking identities : Riparian landscapes of Central Borneo

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  Bidayuh women and urban-rural migration

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  Remedy for an Ailing 'Race' : Elite agendas and shamanic visions

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  Jargon in the jungle : Indonesian state rhetoric at a highland 'access point'

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  Membicarakan empat kategori insan Muslim

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  Menjana ilmu daripada al-Quran, Injil

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  Kelebihan pahala pada saf hadapan ketika solat

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  Bahasa Inggeris tingkatkan kefahaman Islam

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  Darul Iqra’ berusaha wujud generasi celik al-Quran

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  Soal halal haram produk perlu ditangani lebih tegas

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  Suami isteri perlu tolak ansur elak perbalahan

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  Ramadan menawarkan perubahan radikal

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  Anak ujian Allah kepada ibu bapa

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  Bulan menyuburkan keimanan

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  Jakim perlu awasi penggunaan logo halal

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  Nilai-nilai mulia ibadat haji

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  Hukum solat jamak dan qasar

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  Memahami kedudukan hadis ahad

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  Puasa ditinjau dari sudut kesihatan