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• Textethnomedicinewomen's health

  Swallowing frogs: Anger and illness in Northeast Brazil

  Northeast Brazilian women use the term "swallowing frogs" to describe the act of suppressing anger, hatred, or irritation and of putting up with unfair treatment silently.
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  The snake in the stomach: child diarrhea in central Mozambique

  Research on diarrhea in early childhood in Manica Province, Mozambique, showed that traditional healers conceptualize a complex array of illnesses that have diarrhea as a symptom.
• Textethnomedicinemodernity

  The transformation of Tibetan medicine

  Presents a cultural and historical analysis of 20th-century Tibetan medicine. In its expansion into the state bureaucracy, Tibetan medicine has acceded to institutional modernity through transformations in theory, practice, and methods for training physicians.
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  Personhood and illness among the Kulina

  Argues that the current medical anthropological fixation on the Body is neither good ethnography nor productive theory, and uses the Kulina example to illustrate how the cultural dimensions of personhood provide a more satisfactory framework for the understanding of illness.
• Textethnomedicineprevention...1 more

  Home care and prevention

  Focuses on the practices and conceptions of prevention in home care that were prevalent among Quebec families during the first half of 20th century.
• Textethnomedicinehealing

  Objectified selves: An analysis of medicines in Andean sacrificial healing

  The analysis of medicines used in Quechua soul-calling ritual in the southern Peruvian Andes demonstrates that the items in sacrificial bundles (despachos) embody the identity of patients.
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  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