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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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Provides structural and interpretive analyses of a young, French-speaking Dogon woman's accounts of her efforts to manage her menstrual bleeding and threatened infertility.

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Examines the theoretical and methodological grounding of anthropological research on medical decision making with reference to both critiques and empirical studies.

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Examines the distinct perspectives of physicians and patients, and provides an illustration of how biomedical culture articulates with the local moral construct of a particular community.

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Compares two form forms of everyday clinical talk and argues that both modes of discourse provide avenues for reasoning about clinical problems.

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Describes four current discourses of "world health" and discusses them in terms of their underlying ideal images of world order.

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Discusses the results of the field research to determine the client base of natural medicine and the reasons for its growing popularity among poorer classes in Ecuador.

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Focuses on the practices and conceptions of prevention in home care that were prevalent among Quebec families during the first half of 20th century.

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The fact that cleaning, especially cleaning performed by women, is invisible to managers, other hospital personnel, and patients has important consequences for cleaners' and for patients' health.

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The analysis of medicines used in Quechua soul-calling ritual in the southern Peruvian Andes demonstrates that the items in sacrificial bundles (despachos) embody the identity of patients.

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Explores potential problems of universalism and individualism in human rights discourse by examining understandings of the body and suffering among Lhasa Tibetan women.

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Considers how the ripple effects or war and its aftermath are embodied and lived even after being mediated by time, space, and social status.

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