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Analysis of family planning investigates the links between embodied experiences, sociocultural forms, and ethnophysiological concerns.
Focuses on the rural Jamaican concept of flow, which appears in ethnophysiological ideas and kinship beliefs and…

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Suggests that perhaps the key to better understanding sex-related health-risk behavior is to conduct more systematic research on gender identity, and the historical and sociocultural origins of such identities.

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The fact that cleaning, especially cleaning performed by women, is invisible to managers, other hospital personnel, and patients has important consequences for cleaners' and for patients' health.

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Discusses parallels between the patterns of everyday domination and aggression during times of peace and war.

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Draws on extensive interviews with middle-aged Australian women experiencing urinary incontinence.

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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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Analysis of 70 interviews with African American women and Euro-American women shows that their perceptions of the intergenerational transfer of knowledge about menopause from their mothers shaped their attitudes toward menopause and the health-care…

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Argues for the importance of a sociology of knowledge approach to understanding local nations of etiology.

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The reason of lower-class women in south India in the 1990s were demanding to have childbirth labors induced with oxytocin drugs while rejecting anesthesia.

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