Published March, 2008
By Vieda Skultans
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Presents ethnographic studies of South Wales, Maharashtra and post-Soviet Latvia connected by a theoretical interest in healing emotion and subjectivity. Exploring the uses of narrative in the shaping of memory, it focuses on the post-Soviet clinic as an arena in which the contradictions of a liberal economy are translated into a medical language.

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Published March, 2008
By Sarah Pinto
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Follows the daily lives of rural women in the Sitapur district of Uttar Pradesh, an agricultural region with high rates of infant mortality, where maternal health services are poor while family planning efforts are intensive, from a range of castes and communities. This book develops an approach to access to care that focuses on various aspects.

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Published December, 2007
By Andrea Pieroni and Ina Vandebroek
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The tremendous increase in migrations and diasporas of human groups in the last decades are bringing along challenging issues for society, especially related to the economic and political management of multiculturalism and culturally effective health care. This work analyzes these dynamics of traditional knowledge in 22 selected case studies.

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Published December, 2007
By Bernhard M. Bierlich and Bernhard Bierlich
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Based on long-term medical anthropological research in northern Ghana, the author analyses issues of health and healing, of gender, and of the control and use of money in a changing rural African setting. He also describes the culture of medical pluralism, so typical for neo-colonial states.

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Published October, 2007
By Marcia C. Inhorn
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Reproductive disruptions, such as infertility, adoption, and childhood disability, are among distressing experiences in people's lives. Based on research by medical anthropologists, this book examines such issues as local practices detrimental to safe pregnancy and birth; conflicting reproductive goals between women and men; and more.

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Published July, 2007
By Roy Ellen
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Explores such issues as the creation, erosion and transmission of ecological knowledge, and hybridization between traditional and scientifically-based knowledge, amongst populations facing environmental stress, political conflict and economic hazards. This book evaluates how traditional knowledge helps to cope with these kinds of insecurity.

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Published May, 2007
By Kent Maynard
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Based on ethnographic data, this book looks at the self-fashioning of various healers and promoters of well-being. It also considers how caregivers are viewed by others, and how their identities are influenced by social and cultural factors.

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Published May, 2007
By Kent Maynard
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Looks at how a variety of health providers are perceived - from traditional healers to physicians, from diviners to nursing home providers. This title aims to demonstrate how class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, or state policy may all play formative roles in shaping the definition of health and wellbeing and how they are delivered.

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Published December, 2006
By Nicholas Eschenbruch
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Focusing on terminally ill people in a German hospice, this study addresses the question, how meaningful experience is constructed for these patients in an attempt to preserve their dignity as persons. It is based on material from diary texts and active participation of the author in the role of a nurse.

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