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The relationship between theory, narrative form, and teaching through a close critical reading of that book that is informed by theories of tragedy and ethnographies of medicine.

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A biocultural approach to understanding the nutritional status of elementary school children in a rural community in eastern Kentucky.

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The some findings from an ethnographic study of how diabetes gained recognition as a pressing public health problem in Canada.

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Brief biographical sketches of Weil and Chopra and compares and contrasts their respective views on health, illness, healing, and health care.

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How Venezuelan public health officials collaborated with journalists in producing information about cholera in January-December 1991.

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The sources of authoritative knowledge that shaped single, white, middle-class women's unintentional pregnancies and child-bearing decisions throughout five reproductive eras.

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A complex field of health factors in relation to historical processes and a system of medical pluralism.

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Objective measures of children's hyperactive and inattentive behavior, derived from ethological observation and activity monitoring, are used as a control in regression analyses.

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The term syndemic has been introduced recently by medical anthropologists to label the synergistic interaction of two or more coexistent diseases and resultant excess burden of disease.

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The dominant biomedical explanation of immigrant tuberculosis could be modified with the incorporation of the migratory process as a risk factor.

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The natural history of home gardens mirrors transformations within the family, and that Saraguro women study the contents of their neighbors' gardens, using this knowledge as a foundation for deciphering the owner's economic and health status.

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How does a group of public health physicians in the urban Amazon value medicinal plant knowledge.

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How do some members of Navajo society use narratives regarding alcohol and drinking to comment on cultural degeneration and the decay of the traditional Navajo moral economy?

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Examines how Maya bonesetters work in an environment hostile to their craft and explores some important vectors of bodily and ideological engagement between Maya bonesetting and Guatemalan biomedicine.

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Examines how a group of Lubavitcher Hasidic Jews deals with sickness and the relation between the group's use of biomedicine and religious healing.

Study compared the perceptions and experiences of the midlife transition among Japanese American and European American women.

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Deconstructs previous notions of pregnancy.

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Malaysia dan Singapura bersepakat untuk menggesa genjatan senjata dikuatkuasakan di Gaza dan mendesak rejim Zionis untuk menghentikan serangan ke atas orang awam.

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Explores the degree to which new and old markers of social status agree-or disagree-and the consequences they have for the experience of stress in 329 Somoa adolescents.

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

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Argues that growing inequality has led to declining social cohesion, heightened individual competition, fear of interpersonal violence, and intensified conflict between spouses in poor families.

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Rakyat Palestine sengsara kulit tubuh cair dan melecur teruk terkena bom fosforus putih yang dijatuhkan oleh pesawat tentera Israel. Bom tersebut telah diharamkan di peringkat antarabangsa namun tentera Israel tetap menggunakannya bagi membunuh dan…

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Examines the practice of "survival sex" in the taverns of Soweto and Hammanskraal area, South Africa.

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Examines possible avenues of HIV infection among urban street boys in Tanzania and questions the ways that AIDS researchers have defined and approached the phenomenon of "survival sex" in East and Central Africa.

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Focuses on how some Somali women experience and reflect on the pain of infibulation as a lived bodily experience within shifting social and cultural framework.

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Explores issues with reference to the subject of the "mental health" or emotional well-being of a cohort of postrevolution Iranian women from metropolitan Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Examines the role and meaning of susto(fright) in Mexican Americans' explanatory model of type 2 diabetes.

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Kena bedah tanpa bius merupakan langkah drastik diambil untuk merawat mangsa pengebom Zionis akibat bekalan ubat yang sudah kritikal di Gaza. Ramai mangsa yang cedera terpaksa menjalani pembedahan di hospital tanpa menggunakan anestetik iaitu ubat…

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Examines the transgenerational transmission of trauma among campesinos living in rural, repopulated community in El Salvador.

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Examines reasons that Hispanic and American Indian youths give to explain their smoking.

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Explores the flexible configuration of a local knowledge system about hypertension symptoms, foregrounding it against prevailing biomedical assertions regarding the asymptomatic or "silent" nature of hypertension.

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Critiques the growing dominance of market-based medicine in the United states against the background of existing problems with quality of care, rising costs, devaluation of doctor-patient relationships, and, especially, persistent inequalities of…

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Reports results of an ethnographic study that sought to understand how a cohort of gay men living with HIV infection evaluated and worked to preserve or improve the quality of their lives.

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Reports results of an ethnographic study that sought to understand how a cohort of gay men living with HIV infection evaluated and worked to preserve or improve the quality of their lives.

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Discusses young gay Norwegian men's interpretations of condom use and nonuse.

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