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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.
• Textcancerwomen's health

  From simple technology to complex arena: Classification of Pap smears, 1917-90

  Explores historical constructions of Pap smear cassification systems from 1917 to 1990.
• Textpolitical economy of healthwomen's health

  The cultural debate over female circumcision: The Sudanese are arguing this one out for themselves

  Critiques medical ecological analysis of female circumcision as a "maladaptive cultural pattern" and argues that this highly controversial procedure must be analysed within the larger contexts of women's lives in undeveloped countries.
• Textwomen's health

  Languages of labor: Negotiating the "real" and the relational in Indo-Fijian women's expressions of physical pain

  Clinical interactions between medical staff and female Indo-Fijian patients to demonstrate how "real" and 'unreal' pain are distinguished in the clinical setting.
• 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.