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• TextbiomedicineDoctor-patient relationship...1 more

  Sacred healing and biomedicine compared

  Addresses the similarities and differences between sacred healing and biomedicine along several important dimensions that bear on the differential effects of patients' experiences of their treatment.
  Concludes with a consideration of contemporary sociocultural forces that have led to the emphasis on the physicians' persona in biomedical practice.
• Textbiomedicineorgan donation...1 more

  Organ wars: The battle for body parts

  Analyzes altruism and individual rights as the ideological equivalents of immunosuppressant drugs, designed to inhibit cultural rejection of transplantation and its view of the body.
• Textagingbiomedicine...1 more

  Narratives of elder parental death: A structural and cultural analysis

  Reports on middle-aged daughters' perceptions of the experience of parental death.
• Textbiomedicinewomen's health

  Defining women's health: A dozen messages from more than 150 ethnographies

  Defining and understanding women's health from the perspective of women themselves.
• Textbiomedicinesexuality

  The social life of emergency contraception in the United States: Disciplining pharmaceutical use, disciplining sexuality, and constructing zygotic bodies

  Drug's impact on female and young adult sexuality.