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Examines the use of spatial concepts by rural health care practitioners in Northern California and suggests that rural and urban spatial metaphors are important means of expressing and (re)producing problems associated with their research for…

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Examines language, actions, and interactions in a multidisciplinary team of biomedical specialists whose members meet routinely to visually interpret and assess such images.

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Describes the beliefs and rationale for gender-based violence among a cohort of low-income, predominantly second-generation, mainland Puerto Rican adolescents.

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Reviews the literature on female genital surgeries and examines the extent to which available research supports commonly accepted "facts" about the prevalence and harmful effects of these practices, in particular their possible health complications,…

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Examines the manner in which time demands shape lay interpretations of medicine efficacy and drive increases in medication use for adults as well as children.

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Discusses the themes of cyclical time, disease-causing spirits, the natural/supernatural dichotomy, and agricultural metaphors as applied to disease, as well as the growing adaptation to, use of, and interpretation of Western medicine by these…

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Suggests that, despite the explicit role of the sacred in the religious healing interventions available to Navajo patients, differences between biomedical and religious healing systems maybe less significance than their shared existential engagement…

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Examines the role of diagnosis in two Navajo religious healing traditions and examines a case study of diagnostic encounter between an NAC diagnostician and a Traditional patient.

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Examines the two more recent healing traditions as religious responses to the contemporary Navajo crisis of alcohol and substance abuse as well as to socioeconomics changes.

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Discusses the three major spiritual healing ways used by Navajo Indians today.

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Elucidate how the Navajo synthetic principle sa'ah naaghái bik'eh hózhó (SNBH) is understood, demonstrated, and elaborated in three different Navajo healing traditions.

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