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| 21. |  | Title: Ngoma: discourses of healing in central and southern Africa  Author: Janzen, John M Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Medical Anthropology Publisher's Description: Ngoma , in Bantu, means drum, song, performance, and healing cult or association. A widespread form of ritual healing in Central and Southern Africa, ngoma is fully investigated here for the first time and interpreted in a contemporary context. John Janzen's daring study incorporates drumming and sp . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 22. |  | Title: No aging in India: Alzheimer's, the bad family, and other modern things Author: Cohen, Lawrence 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Aging | South Asia Publisher's Description: From the opening sequence, in which mid-nineteenth-century Indian fishermen hear the possibility of redemption in an old woman's madness, No Aging in India captures the reader with its interplay of story and analysis. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic work, Lawrence Cohen links a detaile . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 23. |  | Title: Old, alone, and neglected: care of the aged in the United States and Scotland Author: Kayser-Jones, Jeanie Schmit Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Aging | Medical Anthropology | Medicine Publisher's Description: As the median age of the population increases, the care and housing of the elderly in the U.S. are of increasing concern. Jeanie Kayser-Jones compares a typical private institution in the U.S. with a government-owned home in Scotland.Her analysis compels attention to the systematic abuse of the inst . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 24. |  | Title: Paths to Asian medical knowledge Author: Leslie, Charles M 1923- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Asian Studies Publisher's Description: Like its classic predecessor, Asian Medical Systems , Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge significantly expands the study of Asian medicine. These essays ask how patients and practitioners know what they know - what evidence of disease or health they consider convincing and what cultural traditions and . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 25. |  | Title: The possessed and the dispossessed: spirits, identity, and power in a Madagascar migrant town Author: Sharp, Lesley Alexandra Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Medical Anthropology | Women's Studies | Indigenous Religions Publisher's Description: This finely drawn portrait of a complex, polycultural urban community in Madagascar emphasizes the role of spirit medium healers, a group heretofore seen as having little power. These women, Leslie Sharp argues, are far from powerless among the peasants and migrant laborers who work the land in this . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 26. |  | Title: Reproduction and social organization in Sub-Saharan Africa Author: Lesthaeghe, Ron J 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: African Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Medical Anthropology Publisher's Description: Unlike most Asian and Latin American countries, sub-Saharan Africa has seen both an increase in population growth rates and a weakening of traditional patterns of child-spacing since the 1960s. It is tempting to conclude that sub-Saharan countries have simply not reached adequate levels of income, e . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 27. |  | Title: A simple matter of salt: an ethnography of nutritional deficiency in Spain Author: Fernandez, Renate Lellep Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology Similar Items |
| 28. |  | Title: Stories in the time of cholera: racial profiling during a medical nightmare Author: Briggs, Charles L 1953- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American Studies | Ethnic Studies | Disease | Medical Anthropology Publisher's Description: Cholera, although it can kill an adult through dehydration in half a day, is easily treated. Yet in 1992-93, some five hundred people died from cholera in the Orinoco Delta of eastern Venezuela. In some communities, a third of the adults died in a single night, as anthropologist Charles Briggs and C . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 29. |  | Title: Susto, a folk illness Author: Rubel, Arthur J Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Latin American Studies | Psychology Publisher's Description: Widespread throughout Latin America, susto is a folk illness associated with a broad array of symptoms. It is considered by susceptible populations to be a sickness caused by the separation of soul and body which is precipitated by a supernatural force. Most studies of culture-bound diseases have re . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 30. |  | Title: Taming the wind of desire: psychology, medicine, and aesthetics in Malay shamanistic performance Author: Laderman, Carol Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | Medical Anthropology | Psychology | Southeast Asia | Medicine Publisher's Description: Charged with restoring harmony and relieving pain, the Malay shaman places his patients in trance and encourages them to express their talents, drives, personality traits - the "Inner Winds" of Malay medical lore - in a kind of performance. These healing ceremonies, formerly viewed by Western anthro . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 31. |  | Title: Testing testing: social consequences of the examined life Author: Hanson, F. Allan 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Sociology | Medical Anthropology | Psychiatry Similar Items |
| 32. |  | Title: Total confinement: madness and reason in the maximum security prison Author: Rhodes, Lorna A. (Lorna Amarasingham) Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | Medicine | Politics | Sociology Publisher's Description: In this rare firsthand account, Lorna Rhodes takes us into a hidden world that lies at the heart of the maximum security prison. Focusing on the "supermaximums" - and the mental health units that complement them - Rhodes conveys the internal contradictions of a system mandated to both punish and tre . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 33. |  | Title: Twice dead: organ transplants and the reinvention of death Author: Lock, Margaret M Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Ethics | Sociology | Sociology | Ethics | Sociology | Ethnic Studies | Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: Tales about organ transplants appear in mythology and folk stories, and surface in documents from medieval times, but only during the past twenty years has medical knowledge and technology been sufficiently advanced for surgeons to perform thousands of transplants each year. In the majority of cases . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 34. |  | Title: Under the medical gaze: facts and fictions of chronic pain Author: Greenhalgh, Susan Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Medical Anthropology | Physical Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Medicine | Gender Studies | Sociology | Social Problems | Social Problems Publisher's Description: This compelling account of the author's experience with a chronic pain disorder and subsequent interaction with the American health care system goes to the heart of the workings of power and culture in the biomedical domain. It is a medical whodunit full of mysterious misdiagnosis, subtle power play . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 35. |  | Title: White plague, black labor: tuberculosis and the political economy of health and disease in South Africa Author: Packard, Randall M 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Anthropology | Medicine | Medical Anthropology | African Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: Why does tuberculosis, a disease which is both curable and preventable, continue to produce over 50,000 new cases a year in South Africa, primarily among blacks? In answering this question Randall Packard traces the history of one of the most devastating diseases in twentieth-century Africa, against . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 36. |  | Title: Writing at the margin: discourse between anthropology and medicine Author: Kleinman, Arthur Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Sociology | Medicine | Asian Studies | Social Problems Publisher's Description: One of the most influential and creative scholars in medical anthropology takes stock of his recent intellectual odysseys in this collection of essays. Arthur Kleinman, an anthropologist and psychiatrist who has studied in Taiwan, China, and North America since 1968, draws upon his bicultural, multi . . . [more] Similar Items |