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Investigate how nursing assistants' continual contact with contaminating substances impacts their attitudes toward their work and themselves as workers.

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Examine some Sicilian-Canadian uses of "nerves" from a Pirandellian perspective.

Suggests that the transnational tobacco companies' (TTCs) marketing strategies override cultural differences in the choices people make regarding smoking and health.

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Argues that policy makers must pay attention to the relationships among authority, gender, and local knowledge.

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Examines the complexities involved in studying physiological symptoms.

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Provides a preliminary description, from an anthropological perspective, of what is called in Israel the "Yemenite children affair."

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Guardian-child negotiations reflected cultural understandings regarding children, caretaking, and guardian-child power structures as well as food.

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Reports on patients' decisions to refuse living related donor (LRD) kidney offers and concludes that social relations, emotions, and ethnomedical beliefs play an important role in patients' treatment decisions.

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Suggests that medical compliance and non-compliance should be considered part of the rhetoric to be explained within the regimes of a pursuit of health.

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Drug healing rates covary with placebo healing rates. Several factors can account for the dramatic variation in placebo healing rates, including cultural ones.

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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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Focuses on patterns of morbidity, treatment practices, and illness beliefs among caboclos of the Lower Amazon.

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Investigates the role of social support in the initiation of prenatal care by analyzing data from interviewers with 36 pregnant women at public health facility in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

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Examines the social processes and interactions that enabled women's experiential knowledge to dominate discussions and subsequently share in the authority of biomedical knowledge in some situations.

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Examines the historical context of Cameroonian experience with colonial vaccination campaigns and the contemporary contexts of the turmoil of democratization movements and economic crisis.

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Examines knowledge and practice surrounding birth in Morocco, using women's narratives of their recent birth experiences, observations of medical encounters, and statements about prescribed behaviors during pregnancy and birth.

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Considers the role of telemedicine in the production of biomedical health care using three specific theoretical constructs as lenses.

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Analyzes doctor-patient communication as it is taught to medical students in a student-run free clinic for the homeless.

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draws upon three years of ethnographic research within an emergency homeless shelter in Massachusetts to explore the subject-making effects of routine shelter helping practices.

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Describes the use of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychiatry in the prison setting.

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The risks of bisexuality among black men are exacerbated by incarceration, homophobia, drug use, and the prison and public health focus on surveillance rather than prevention.

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Describes a shared model of the breast cancer experience negotiated by the members of a spontaneously organized breast cancer self-help group in eastern North Carolina.

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