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• Textcancerculture...1 more

  Can there be a "cultural epidemiology"?

  Examines the possibilities for interdisciplinary research, taking cancer epidemiology as a case in point.
• Textdrug useHIV/AIDS

  Use of needles and syringes in Miami and Valencia: Observations of high and low availability

  Suggests that intervention in Valencia needs to focus on how people select places where they inject, and intervention in Miami needs to focus on improving availability of needles/syringes.
• Textethnomedicine

  Imagined lives, suffering , and the work of culture: The embodied discourses of conflict in modern Tibet

  Explores the cultural epidemiology of rlung disorder among Tibetans living in the cities and towns of the modern Chinese state of Tibet
• Texthealthtuberculosis

  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.
• Textmoneypublic health

  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.
• keluarmemilih...5 more

  Orang Melayu tidak boleh tidak terlibat dengan politik

• Textreproduction

  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.
• Textgenderurinary incontinence

  "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.
• bahasa ibundabahasa kebangsaan...6 more

  Bahasa Melayu manifestasi Daken

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

• 139 lokasi di KL dikenal pasti kawasan pembangunan semula

• Textbreast cancer

  "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"
• Textbreast cancer

  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.
• Beras tempatan bertambah, tetapi masih tak mencukupi

• Textolder people

  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.
• Ahli parlimenhilang kerusi...5 more

  Ahli Parlimen ingkar prinsip parti wajar dikira lompat parti

• Texthealthmetaphor

  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.
• Textimaging technology

  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.
• Textgendersexuality...1 more

  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.
• Textfemale genital surgerysexuality

  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.
• Texthealth care

  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.
• TextHmongmeasles

  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.
• Textintensificationmenopause

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

• Textdepressionhealing...2 more

  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.
• TexthealingNavajos

  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.
• Textalcoholismhealing...1 more

  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.
• TexthealingNavajos

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

  Discusses the three major spiritual healing ways used by Navajo Indians today.
• Texthealinghealth...1 more

  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

• getahlesen...1 more

  Peniaga getah diwajib guna aplikasi RRIMniaga

• TextPolitik Malaysiaumno

  UMNO mampu tawan Terengganu

• TextmudaPolitik Malaysia

  Empat calon Muda di Selangor

• TextBNPolitik Malaysia...1 more

  BN tanding lebih 100 kerusi ADUN

• industrikeuntungan...2 more

  Untung bersih Sime Darby Property lebih rendah

• TextPolitik MalaysiaPRN...1 more

  Selangor jadi 'battle ground' PRN

• TextPKRPolitik Malaysia

  PKR tetap teruskan tradisi

• TextPolitik MalaysiaPRN

  Calon PRN enam negeri wajar isytihar harta

• digitalEkonomi...1 more

  Suyula Platform raih status Malaysia Digital

• TextPolitik MalaysiaSanusi

  Sanusi dakwa ucapan diputar belit

• TextPolitik Malaysia

  Calon Muda mahu beri 'wake up call'

• gaspetronas

  Blok SK318 catat keluar gas pertama

• TextBNPolitik Malaysia...2 more

  BN yakin menang semua kerusi di Selangor

• TextAnwar IbrahimPolitik Malaysia

  69 peratus puas hati prestasi Anwar

• daganganeksport...1 more

  Nilai dagangan Malaysia cecah RM216.4 bilion pada Julai 2023

• TextDAPPH...2 more

  Kon Yeow calon ketua menteri

• TextMuhyiddin YassinPN...1 more

  Usah risau gelombang hijau