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African Medical Pluralism
In most places on the African continent, multiple health care options exist and patients draw on a therapeutic continuum that ranges from traditional medicine and religious healing to the latest in biomedical technology. The ethnographically based essays in this volume highlight African ways of perc... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
The Work of Hospitals: Global Medicine in Local Cultures
by Eugenia Georges • John M. Janzen • Cheryl Mattingly • Thomas L. Leatherman • William C. Olsen • Carolyn Sargent • Anita Hannig • Mark Nichter • Adrienne E. Strong • Vania Smith-Oka • Morgan K. Hoke • Samya R. Stumo • Ghislain Emmanuel Sopoh • Roch Christian Johnson • Anita Chary • Peter Rohloff • Kayla Hurd • Elisa Ej Sobo • Emma Varley • Claire WendlandIn the context of neoliberalism and global austerity measures, health care institutions around the world confront numerous challenges in attempting to meet the needs of local populations. Examples from Africa (including, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Congo), Latin America (Peru, Mexico, Guatemala), Western E... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Reproduction, Globalization, and the State: New Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectives
Reproduction, Globalization, and the State conceptualizes and puts into practice a global anthropology of reproduction and reproductive health. Leading anthropologists offer new perspectives on how transnational migration and global flows of communications, commodities, and biotechnologies affect t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Gender In Cross-Cultural Perspective (Sixth Edition)
Introduces students to the most significant topics in anthropology of gender. Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective is a one-volume reader built on classic contributions to gender and anthropology, incorporating recent literature on gender roles and ideology around the world. It combines theore... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013