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• Textmedical anthropologymedical discourse

  Explaining a complex disease process: Talking to patients about Hansen's disease (leprosy) in Brazil

  The ways in which people who are affected by Hansen's disease in Rio de Janeiro learn about different aspects of their illness and its treatment from health care professionals.
• Textmedical discourse

  Claiming respectable American motherhood: Homebirth mothers, medical officials, and the state

  How medical discourses around appropriate health care practices intersect with state discourses about what practices are considered "respectable' versus "pathological" for its citizens.