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

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

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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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  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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  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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  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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  Identity and healing in three Navajo religious traditions: sa'ah naaghái bik'eh hózhó

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

  Pendamaian parti selepas PRN

• TextPolitik MalaysiaSanusi

  'Jangan llibatkan ahli keluarga saya'

• TextPolitik MalaysiaPulau Pinang...1 more

  UMNO Pulau Pinang mahu tanding enam kerusi

• TextPolitik Malaysiaputrajaya

  Ambil alih Putrajaya Pyswar atau realiti?

• TextPolitik Malaysia

  Kronisme, pemain ekonomi gelap atur politik Malaysia

• TextPolitik Malaysiaumno

  UMNO mampu tawan Terengganu

• TextmudaPolitik Malaysia

  Empat calon Muda di Selangor

• TextBNPolitik Malaysia...1 more

  BN tanding lebih 100 kerusi ADUN

• TextPolitik MalaysiaPRN...1 more

  Selangor jadi 'battle ground' PRN

• TextPKRPolitik Malaysia

  PKR tetap teruskan tradisi

• TextPolitik MalaysiaPRN

  Calon PRN enam negeri wajar isytihar harta

• TextPolitik MalaysiaSanusi

  Sanusi dakwa ucapan diputar belit

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  Calon Muda mahu beri 'wake up call'

• TextBNPolitik Malaysia...2 more

  BN yakin menang semua kerusi di Selangor

• TextAnwar IbrahimPolitik Malaysia

  69 peratus puas hati prestasi Anwar

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  Kon Yeow calon ketua menteri

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  Usah risau gelombang hijau

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  Sanusi utus permohonan ampun

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  Strategi tarik sopkongan rakyat

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  Amirudin sedia hadapi tindak balas penyokong

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  Survival politik bekas MB dan ketua menteri

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  Kerajaan tak sekat kempen di media

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  572 calon bertanding PRN enam negeri

• TextPolitik MalaysiaSanusi

  Sanusi mahu saman Saifuddin

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  PRN penentu survival PH-BN, Pas-Bersatu

• TextmudaPolitik Malaysia...1 more

  Muda umum enam lagi calon

• TextPolitik Malaysiaterengganu

  PRK Kuala Terengganu 12 Ogos, serentak PRN

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  Ahli politik perlu jaga adab

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  Amirudin dicadang kekal MB

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  Hilang status MB, ADUN jika bersalah

• TextPolitik MalaysiaPRN...1 more

  'Dakwaan ini untuk bunuh karier politik saya'

• TextPolitik MalaysiaSanusi

  Sanusi berdepan penjara tiga tahun

• TextPolitik MalaysiaSanusi

  Sanusi nafi gagal dihubungi polis

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  'Masjid bukan tempat untuk berpolitik'