Browse Items · Rimbunan: Pangkalan Data Pengajian Melayu

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Umat Islam perlu sentiasa berakhlak mulia

Islam dan perlembagaan Malaysia

Makanan haram penyubur keganasan

Narrative mediation of conventional and new "mental health" paradigms: Reading the stories of immigrant Iranian women

Explores issues with reference to the subject of the "mental health" or emotional well-being of a cohort of postrevolution Iranian women from metropolitan Vancouver, British Columbia.

Tags: emotion

Pain as a counterpoint to culture: Toward an analysis of pain associated with infibulation among Somali immigrants in Norway

Focuses on how some Somali women experience and reflect on the pain of infibulation as a lived bodily experience within shifting social and cultural framework.

Tags: infibulation

Kunyenga, "real sex'" and survival: Assessing the risk of HIV infection among urban street boys in Tanzania

Examines possible avenues of HIV infection among urban street boys in Tanzania and questions the ways that AIDS researchers have defined and approached the phenomenon of "survival sex" in East and Central Africa.

Tags: HIV/AIDS, sex behaviour

"She drank his money": Survival sex and the problem of violence in taverns in Gauteng province, South Africa

Examines the practice of "survival sex" in the taverns of Soweto and Hammanskraal area, South Africa.

Tags: HIV/AIDS, sex work, violence

Mangsa Bom 'Gila'.

Rakyat Palestine sengsara kulit tubuh cair dan melecur teruk terkena bom fosforus putih yang dijatuhkan oleh pesawat tentera Israel. Bom tersebut telah diharamkan di peringkat antarabangsa namun tentera Israel tetap menggunakannya bagi membunuh dan…

Tags: Palestin, Palestine

African Independent Churches in Mozambique: Healing the afflictions of inequality

Argues that growing inequality has led to declining social cohesion, heightened individual competition, fear of interpersonal violence, and intensified conflict between spouses in poor families.

Tags: health, inequality

Giving birth to gonolia: "Culture" and sexually transmitted disease among the Huli of Papua New Guinea

Argues for the importance of a sociology of knowledge approach to understanding local nations of etiology.

Tags: gender, STD

Status incongruity in Samoan youth: A biocultural analysis of culture change, stress, and immune function

Explores the degree to which new and old markers of social status agree-or disagree-and the consequences they have for the experience of stress in 329 Somoa adolescents.

Tags: adolescence

Malaysia, Singapura sepakat isu salur bantuan ke Palestin.

Malaysia dan Singapura bersepakat untuk menggesa genjatan senjata dikuatkuasakan di Gaza dan mendesak rejim Zionis untuk menghentikan serangan ke atas orang awam.

Tags: Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia, Palestine, Singapura

Deconstructing pregnancy: RU486, seeing "eggs," and the ambiguity of very early conceptions

Deconstructs previous notions of pregnancy.

Tags: fetal discourse

Comparison of the menopause and midlife transition between Japanese American And European American women

Study compared the perceptions and experiences of the midlife transition among Japanese American and European American women.

Tags: menopause

The power of words: Healing narratives among Lubavitcher Hasidim

Examines how a group of Lubavitcher Hasidic Jews deals with sickness and the relation between the group's use of biomedicine and religious healing.

"The hands know': Bodily engagement and medical impasse in highland Maya bonesetting

Examines how Maya bonesetters work in an environment hostile to their craft and explores some important vectors of bodily and ideological engagement between Maya bonesetting and Guatemalan biomedicine.

Tags: medicine

Nostalgia and degeneration: The moral economy of drinking in Navajo society

How do some members of Navajo society use narratives regarding alcohol and drinking to comment on cultural degeneration and the decay of the traditional Navajo moral economy?

Tags: alcoholism

Contextualizing the politics of knowledge: Physicians' attitudes toward medicinal plants

How does a group of public health physicians in the urban Amazon value medicinal plant knowledge.

Tags: medicinal plants

Using home gardens to decipher health and healing in the Andes

The natural history of home gardens mirrors transformations within the family, and that Saraguro women study the contents of their neighbors' gardens, using this knowledge as a foundation for deciphering the owner's economic and health status.

Tags: health

Migratory journeys and tuberculosis risk

The dominant biomedical explanation of immigrant tuberculosis could be modified with the incorporation of the migratory process as a risk factor.

Tags: migration

Syndemics and public health: Reconceptualizing disease in bio-social context

The term syndemic has been introduced recently by medical anthropologists to label the synergistic interaction of two or more coexistent diseases and resultant excess burden of disease.

Tags: public health, violence

The health consequences of female circumcision: Science, advocacy, and standards of evidence

Tags: female genital cutting, health consequences

Gender variation in the identification of Mexican children's psychiatric symptoms

Objective measures of children's hyperactive and inattentive behavior, derived from ethological observation and activity monitoring, are used as a control in regression analyses.

Tags: ADHD, psychiatric disorder

The idea of health: History, medical pluralism, and the management of the body in Emilia-Romagna, Italy

A complex field of health factors in relation to historical processes and a system of medical pluralism.

Tags: medical pluralism

Authoritative knowledge and single women's unintentional pregnancies, abortions, adoption, and single motherhood: Social stigma and structural violence

The sources of authoritative knowledge that shaped single, white, middle-class women's unintentional pregnancies and child-bearing decisions throughout five reproductive eras.

Tags: unintentional pregnancy

Why nation-states and journalists can't teach people to be healthy: Power and pragmatic miscalculation in public discourses on health

How Venezuelan public health officials collaborated with journalists in producing information about cholera in January-December 1991.

Tags: health education, inequality

Risk and danger among women-who-prostitute in areas where farmworkers predominate

The work of Andrew Weil and Deepak Chopra-Two holistic health/ New Age gurus: A critique of the holistic health/New Age movements

Brief biographical sketches of Weil and Chopra and compares and contrasts their respective views on health, illness, healing, and health care.

Tags: holistic health

Death, taxes, public opinion, and then Midas touch of Mary Tyler Moore: Accounting for promises by politicians to help avert and control diabetes

The some findings from an ethnographic study of how diabetes gained recognition as a pressing public health problem in Canada.

Tags: diabetes mellitus

Trading nutrition for education: Nutritional status and the sale of snack foods in an eastern Kentucky school

A biocultural approach to understanding the nutritional status of elementary school children in a rural community in eastern Kentucky.

Tags: overweight

The story catches you and you fall down: Tragedy, ethnography, and "cultural competence"

The relationship between theory, narrative form, and teaching through a close critical reading of that book that is informed by theories of tragedy and ethnographies of medicine.

Tags: medical education

Observation on Amantis reticulata (Haan) In Brunei

Birds from the Brunei Rest House Verandah-

Female genital cutting: A harmless practice?

Most female genital cutting (FGC) is a proper matter of concern because it is the irreversible reduction of a human capacity in the absence of meaningful consent.

Tags: female genital cutting

Distribution of recent Benthonic Foraminifera in the 'Inner' Brunei Bay

Characterizing Latino anglers' environment risk perceptions, sport fish consumption, and advisory awareness

Radio Carbon Ages From Quaternary Teraces- Prehistory In Brunei

Deep Level Carbon Dates From Kota Batu,Brunei

The medicalization of "nature" in the "artificial body": Surrogate motherhood in Israel

Anthropological and feminist scholarship on the body and the nature/culture divide as a framework for understanding the place of surrogate mothers in a conceptual ideology that connects motherhood with nature.

Tags: surrogate motherhood

Beads From Sungai Lumut

The Missing Brunei Stone-Age (with an appeal to readers)

Invoking Vali: Painful technologies of modern birth in south India

The reason of lower-class women in south India in the 1990s were demanding to have childbirth labors induced with oxytocin drugs while rejecting anesthesia.

Tags: gender, reproduction

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