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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Medical and Forensic"”.
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Health and Cultural Interaction in the Illinois Country: A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Three Historic Native American Populations
… variation (e.g., in caries rates, LEH frequency, and the nature of pathologies and trauma) than females, indicating that while the lifestyle of males was fairly similar, the lifestyle of women varied between populations in response to their changing roles in their individual communities. This …
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Writing of Death: Ethics and Politics of the Death Fast in Turkey
… modeled after maximum security prisons, and it scrutinizes as well as radicalizes the ontological and political structure of hunger striking to construe otherwise the contestatory relationship between the individual right to death and political sovereignty by insisting on the irreducible …
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Under the Empire’s Eye: The Psychosocial Stress of Chimú Human Sacrifice (1100–1450 CE)
… consolidating power through conquest, ideology, and spectacular rituals of human and animal sacrifice. Excavations at the coastal sites of Pampa La Cruz (PLC) and Huanchaquito Las Llamas (HLL) have uncovered the largest known mass sacrifices in the pre-Hispanic Americas, where hundreds of …
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THE SALIENCE OF MEDICAL CULTURE IN AMAZONIAN ECUADOR
This thesis explores the salience of medical culture in the Upper Amazon region of Ecuador. In particular, it will focus on the Quichua community of Venecia Derecha. The framework for this thesis is based on Murray Last's (1981,1992) concept of "medical culture," which he uses for all things …
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Cultural Anxieties and Institutional Regulation: "Specialized" Mental Healthcare and "Immigrant Suffering" in Paris, France
… which to address the institutional management and representations of cultural difference in France today. By "specialized" mental healthcare centers, I refer structures that provide culturally-sensitive mental health services to immigrants specifically. I identify and explore three contemporary …