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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Medical anthropology"”.
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IMPERILED FEMININITY:RECONFIGURING GENDER IN A CONTEXT OF HEIGHTENED VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
… dissertation is intended as a contribution to Medical Anthropology in general, but specifically to the Anthropology of Violence and to Gender and Health Studies in its focus on gendered violence. This dissertation also contributes to the refinement of theory and methodology in Medical …
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"Just Take It Off the Plate": a Syndemic Model of Low Breastfeeding Rates and Maternal Stress in South Alabama
… in South Alabama's gulf coast. Using a critical medical anthropology lens, we conducted semi-structured interviews with professionals/providers (n=10) and birth-givers/families (n=10) about how providing services in a multiple disaster context has shaped their perceptions of infant feeding, …
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"We Know Where We Stand": Contesting and Constructing Knowledge in Nicaragua's Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemic
… historical context. Grounded in literature from medical anthropology and medical sociology and based on two months of ethnographic field research in northwestern Nicaragua, it analyzes how knowledge production interacts with scientific uncertainty about CKDs specific biomedical causes. It posits …
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Houston Midwives and Public Health Policies: How Their Fight Can Help Us All
… that don’t share their vision. Using critical medical anthropology, I focus on how this discord affects women’s health and is damaging to society when representatives pass over bills that would grant midwives authority as primary birth care providers. The experiences shared with me through …
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Perceptions culturelles dans un contexte de néoplasme pédiatrique: Considérations transculturelles entre l'Occident et le Japon
… cultural items. In the second part, we review medical clinical notions of neoplasm at the child. A rigorous analysis of main oncologic typologies, their treatments and side effects are presented. The third part brings the reader through a general medical anthropology which offers an …
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Methods and madness : researching community health workers' perceptions of mental illness in Khayelitsha and Nyanga
… implementation ofPHC programmes. In the field of medical anthropology, hermeneutically orientated approaches play an important role in advocacy, whereby the patient's perspective on illness and the meaning of illness is brought to the fore in an attempt to provide more patient-centred care. In …
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Cultivating School Food Community: An Ethnography on Nutritional Wellbeing in a Calgary Public School
… in the school food environment (SFE). Critical Medical Anthropology (CMA) considers the social, political, economic, and environmental factors that interact with the body to impact overall health and may help shed light on why young people continue to consume LNVFs in school. CMA is both a …
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Psychological explanations in HIV/AIDS counselling
… and their African clients who are affected. Medical anthropology and constructionist theory provided theoretical frameworks to explore the significance and meaning of explanations as well as implications for counselling objectives. A qualitative methodology, drawn from theoretical models …
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Cultural Anxieties and Institutional Regulation: "Specialized" Mental Healthcare and "Immigrant Suffering" in Paris, France
… namely, transcultural psychiatry, clinical medical anthropology, and ethnoclinical mediation. By providing a genealogy of specialized mental healthcare institutions, and by construing them as "meta-discursive nodes"--that is, as points of encounter between state, institutional, and …
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An "inside story" : the illness experience of women with breast cancer
… among women is reviewed and limitations noted. A medical anthropological approach to the study of illness and health care is outlined. The importance of investigating women's own accounts and of recognising the social experience of illness and the dynamic nature of responses and understandings is …
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Cuidate mija: power in everyday discourses about adolescent pregnancy in urban Ecuador
… Through the lenses of critical-interpretive medical anthropology, governmentality, and reproductive justice, my findings show that young women negotiate these discourses, reproducing some aspects while rejecting others. I further contend that these discourses work through the lives and bodies …
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At Risk for PTSD: The Public Health Implications of Trauma
… an area I began as an undergraduate student of medical anthropology and explored the systems that interact to influence mental health of populations. Specifically, how veterans and others exposed to trauma are at an increased risk for adverse health outcomes. This paper and my fieldwork …
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Perceptions of Trust and Care in the Patient-Provider Relationship: A Mixed Methods Case Study of a Nurse-Practitioner Clinic in Rural Nebraska.
… without the previously limiting oversight of a medical doctor. A medical anthropological approach to assessing this legislation’s impact requires the study of cultural preferences for the patient-provider relationship in Nebraska. While medical anthropology has studied patient-provider …
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The Imagined Reproductive Futures of Post-Graduate Students
Drawing on critical-interpretive medical anthropology and assemblage theory (Mol 2002), this thesis explores how thirty post-graduate students at the University of Saskatchewan enact their imagined reproductive futures. This ethnographic research was conducted using the methods of walkabouts, …
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Towards an anthropology of childhood sickness : an ethnographic study of Danish schoolchildren
… two theoretical frameworks: first, a reformed anthropology of children; second, critical medical anthropology, in particular the notion of sickness as cultural performance. The study focuses on children as individual and collective actors in interaction with other children and with adults …
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The Social Context of Cervical Cancer Knowledge and Prevention Among Haitian Immigrant Women
… Haiti, Miami, represents an application of medical anthropology to epidemiologic research. Each survey respondent also was evaluated for cytology and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HPV, using a self-sampling medical device. Quantitative analysis of survey data indicates …
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Stress Along the Medieval Anglo-Scottish Border? Skeletal Indicators of Conflict-Zone Health
… to bridge the gap in literature between modern medical anthropology population studies of the health consequences of living in a conflict-zone and bioarchaeological population studies of demographic and palaeopathological indicators of stress. To achieve the aim, a bioarchaeological survey of …
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Morality In Action: Risking Death And Caring For Life In American Food Allergy Worlds
… of science and technology studies (STS) and medical anthropology, this dissertation brings together risk theory, the anthropology of ethics and morality, STS and anthropological understandings of medical technologies, disability studies, and feminist theory and research on gender and …
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Brand Kerala: Commodification of Open Source Ayurveda
… bodies of anthropological research: economic anthropology engaged in the study of commodities and commodification processes, ecological anthropology concerned with conservation of common property resources, and medical anthropology concerned with study of medical systems and …
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