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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…

Tags: biomedicine, Doctor-patient relationship, healing

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.

Tags: biomedicine, organ donation, transplantation

Narratives of elder parental death: A structural and cultural analysis

Reports on middle-aged daughters' perceptions of the experience of parental death.

Tags: aging, biomedicine, death

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

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

Tags: biomedicine, women's health

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.

Tags: biomedicine, sexuality

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