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Reports on an interview with a 79-year-old typical Korean American respondent to explain the contradiction in the survey data.

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Examines a cultural dimension of socioeconomic status in a Brazilian city through the use of ethnographic and social survey techniques.

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Takes lactose intolerance as a topic for exploring clashes of power, authority, and knowledge in clinical interactions and interpretations of laywomen.

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Examines adolescent understanding of the social context of sexual behavior.
Concludes by examining the meanings that sex-related behavior may have for adolescents and the potential use of social knowledge for facilitating adolescent health.

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Ethnographic data from a longitudinal, interpretive study of women's changing social and cultural constructions of menopause in a postindustrial, Newfoundland fishing village indicate that three major changes have taken place in the way women…

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Reviews and analyses the early phases of the evolution, those bearing the most apparent influences of the environment of evolutionary adaptedness.

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Uses the example of breast-feeding and insufficient-milk syndrome in Bangladesh to illustrate the privileged status of professional discourse.

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Examines how local residents pushed the project, "Rural Health Delivery System" in unpredictable and ironic directions based on fieldwork in a single village.

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Explores the problems of risky sexual behavior by examining the ways people verbally negotiate sexual interaction regarding sexually transmitted diseases.

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Argues that the concept of knowledge, as utilized by public health professionals, is best regarded as cultural belief, as defines in anthropology.

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Reviews the context and content of televised health messages in Egypt during 1980s, critically assesses the evaluation of mass media health education, and suggests strategies for more effective evaluation.

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Examines ethnomedical knowledge and practices related to tuberculosis conceptualization and management in a rural southern Ethiopian community.

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Employs an ethnoecological analysis to link indigenous, ethnomedical, and Western biomedical ideas of infectious disease causation/prevention.

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Attempts to identify and describe factors associated with the choice of a health care source in rural Guatemala.

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Shows how a discourse about sex, semen, and health is conceived of in terms of embodied truth through an examination of the popular Hindi literature on brahmacharya, interpreted within the context of therapeutic celibacy as put in practice by a…

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Explores the complex and contradictory experiences of urban American Indian drinkers.

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Demonstrates how uses of the body regulate togetherness and availability in clinical encounters.
Centers on the process of interaction, specifically on verbal and bodily actions pertaining to developing role negotiations.

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Argues that discursive phenomena above and below the lexical level are responsible.

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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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Offers a symbolic analysis of the cultural construction and signification of three of the major "pandemics" of the late 20th century: AIDS, cancer, and heart disease.

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Uses the frameworks to explore the cultural construction of medical-scientific authority in the case of a 1986 referendum on AIDS/HIV policy in California.

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