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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.

Tags: breast cancer

Secret encounters: Black men, bisexuality, and Aids in Alabama

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.

Tags: bisexuality, HIV/AIDS

Taxonomic anxieties: Axis I and axis II in prison

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

Tags: psychiatric disorder

Medicalizing homelessness: The production of self-blame and self-governing within homeless shelters

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.

Tags: homelessness

Witnessing and the medical gaze: How medical students learn to see a clinic for the homeless

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

Tags: medical education

An overview of telemedicine: The virtual gaze of health care in the next century

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

Tags: telehealth, telemedicine

Pluralism and pragmatism : Knowledge and practice of birth in Morocco

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.

Tags: birth care, health care

Sterilizing vaccines or the politics of the womb: Retrospective study of a rumor in Cameroon

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

Tags: fertility, public health

Preparing for motherhood: Authoritative knowledge and the undercurrents of shared experience in two childbirth education courses in Cagliari, Italy

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.

Tags: prenatal care, reproduction

Seeking early care; The role of prenatal care advocates

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.

Tags: pregnancy

Concepts of illness and treatment practice in a caboclo community of the Lower Amazon

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

Tags: traditional healing

Menopause and the transmission of women's knowledge: African American and white women's perspectives

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…

Tags: gender, menopause

Cultural variations in the placebo effect: Ulcers, anxiety, and blood pressure.

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

Tags: hypertension, placebo effect

"Actually, I don't feel that bad": Managing diabetes and the clinical encounter

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.

Tags: diabetes

Clinician experiences of managed mental health care: A rereading of the threat

Tags: anthropology, managed care, mental health

"They don't have to suffer for me": Why dialysis patients refuse offers of living donor kidneys

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.

Tags: transplantation

"You ate all that!?": Caretaker-child interaction during children's assisted dietary recall interviews

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

Tags: nutrition

The children of Yemen: Bodies, medicalization, and Nation-Building

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

Tags: medicine

How Japanese women talk about hot flushes: Implications for menopause research

Examines the complexities involved in studying physiological symptoms.

Tags: menopause

Gendering local knowledge: Medicinal plant use and primary health care in Amazon

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

Tags: health care, medicinal plants

Going like gangbusters: Transnational tobacco companies "making a killing" in South America

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

Tags: health, tobacco, transnational

From illness narratives to social commentary: A Pirandellian approach to "nerves"

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

The pollution of incontinence and the dirty work of caregiving in a U.S. nursing home

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

Tags: nursing home

Islam berjaya bentuk tamadun tinggi, mulia

Menggilap mahkota tamadun Islam

Berusaha, beramal kerana Allah

Interpretations of condom use and nonuse among young Norwegian gay men: A qualitative study

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

Tags: HIV/AIDS

Gelaran agama tidak wujud dalam Islam

Nafkah isteri berkerjaya

"New beginnings": A case study in gay men's changing perceptions of quality of life during the course of HIV infection

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.

Tags: HIV/AIDS

"New beginnings": A case study in gay men's changing perceptions of quality of life during the course of HIV infection

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.

Tags: HIV/AIDS

Pengertian dua kalimah syahadah

Antara akal dan iman

Managed care or managed inequality? A call for critiques of market-based medicine

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…

Tags: inequality, managed care

Ketua Jemaah guna jin kawal pengikut

Articulating silences: Experiential and biomedical constructions of hypertension symptomatology

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.

Tags: hypertension

Why do teens smoke? American Indian and Hispanic adolescents' perspectives on functional values and addiction

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

Tags: smoking

The sound of barking dogs: Violence and terror among Salvadoran families in the postwar

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

Tags: transmission of trauma

Kena bedah tanpa bius.

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…

Tags: Palestin, Palestine

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