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A Simple Matter Of Salt - An Ethnography Of Nutritional Deficiency In Spain

by Renate Lellep Fernandez

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 Why do certain easily preventable diseases persist in the modern world? Renate Lellep Fernandez sheds light on this paradox by investigating the high incidence of iodine deficiency disease (IDD) among mountain villagers in northern Spain. Just as the mystery of non-prevention leads the author far beyond the confines of a single place, so are the experiences of these villagers rich in lessons for biocultural anthropology and public health in many contexts. The symptoms of iodine deficiency include not only the disfiguring goiters associated with the disease but also a catalog of more serious and even fatal complications. The burden of caring for victims of IDD has taxed the resources of this Spanish village beyond reason. Yet even though its people wereand areeager for good health and quick to take advantage of modern medical treatment, which has long been available, until very recently they failed to learn that iodized salt prevents the disease. A Simple Matter of Salt unveils the social and political obstacles that have impeded the successful dissemination of preventive knowledge. Here are valuable implications for the prevention of other endemic diseases on a global scale. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.<br /><br />Many titles in the Voices Revived program are also newly available as ebooks, offered at a discounted price to support wider access to scholarly work.</DIV
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Lives At Risk - Public Health In Nineteenth-Century Egypt

by Laverne Kuhnke

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 <I>Lives at Risk</I> describes the introduction of Western medicine into Egypt. The two major innovations undertaken by Muhammad Ali in the mid-nineteenth century were a Western-style school of medicine and an international Quarantine Board. The ways in which these institutions succeeded and failed will greatly interest historians of medicine and of modern Egypt. And because the author relates her narrative to twentieth-century health issues in developing countries, Lives at Risk will also interest medical and social anthropologists. The presence of the quarantine establishment and the medical school in Egypt resulted in a rudimentary public health service. Paramedical personnel were trained to provide primary health care for the peasant population. A vaccination program effectively freed the nation from smallpox. But the disease-oriented, individual-care practice of medicine derived from the urban hospital model of industrializing Europe was totally incompatible with the health care requirements of a largely rural, agrarian population. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.
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East Asian Medicine In Urban Japan - Varieties Of Medical Experience

by Margaret M. Lock

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 Based on fieldwork conducted in Japan during 1973 and 1974, this study deals with the philosophical foundations and historical development of East Asian medicine, Japanese attitudes regarding health, illness, and the human body, and description of kanpo clinics, herbal pharmacies, acupuncture and moxibustion clinics, shiatsu and anma clinics.
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Quest For Therapy In Lower Zaire

by John M. Janzen

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 Describes patterns of healing among the BaKongo of Lower Zaire in Africa, who, like many people elsewhere, utilize cosmopolitan medicine alongside traditional healing practices. This book asks What criteria determine the choice of the alternative therapies? And what is their institutional interrelationship?
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Susto - A Folk Illness

by Arthur J. Rubel, Carl W. O'Nell e Rolando Collado-Ardon

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 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 relied on descriptive approaches that focus on pathologies derived from medical textbooks. This study takes an interdisciplinary approach, looking for explanations of susto in the interaction of social, physiological, and psychological factors.<br /><br /><BR/>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. M</DIV
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Essential Subtleties On The Silver Sea - The Yin-Hai Jing-Wei: A Chinese Classic On Ophthalmology

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 This is a translation into English of the complete "Yin-Hai Jing-Wei", a classic 15th-century text on Chinese ophthalmology. This work offers an unprecedented view of the practice of medicine, and specifically eye care, in pre-modern China.
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Wives And Midwives - Childbirth And Nutrition In Rural Malaysia

by Carol Laderman

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 Offers a picture of the daily life of rural Malays, focusing on their dietary practices and the ritual and medical aspects of childbirth procedures.
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Possessed And The Dispossessed - Spirits, Identity, And Power In A Madagascar Migrant Town

by Lesley A. Sharp

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 This portrait of a polycultural community in Madagascar emphasizes the role of spirit medium healers. It shows that "tromba", or spiritual possession, is central to understanding the complex identities of insiders and outsiders in this community.
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Old, Alone, And Neglected - Care Of The Aged In Scotland And The United States

by Jeanie Schmit Kayser-Jones

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 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 institutionalized elderly in the U.S.
Patients And Healers In The Context Of Culture - An Exploration Of The Borderland Between Anthropology, Medicine, And Psychiatry

by Arthur Kleinman

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 Presents a framework for studying the relationship between medicine, psychiatry, and culture. This book contains a dialectical tension between two reciprocally related orientations: it is both a cross-cultural perspective on the components of clinical care and a clinical perspective on anthropological studies of medicine and psychiatry.
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From The Fat Of Our Souls - Social Change, Political Process, And Medical Pluralism In Bolivia

by Libbet Crandon-Malamud

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 Investigates the social and political dimensions of medical pluralism in the rural town of Kachitu, Bolivia. The author explores how local gossip, rumours and opinions surrounding medical care contribute greatly to a sense of religious and ethnic identity.
Maternity, Medicine, And Power - Reproductive Decisions In Urban Benin

by Carolyn Fishel Sargent

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 This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.
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Ngoma - Discourses Of Healing In Central And Southern Africa

by John M. Janzen

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 A widespread form of ritual healing in Central and Southern Africa, ngoma is investigated here and interpreted in a contemporary context. The study incorporates spirit possession into a broader, institutional profile that emphasizes the varieties of knowledge and social forms.
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A Simple Matter Of Salt - An Ethnography Of Nutritional Deficiency In Spain

by Renate Lellep Fernandez

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Nan-Ching - The Classic Of Difficult Issues

by Paul U. Unschuld

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Nan-Ching - The Classic Of Difficult Issues

by Paul U. Unschuld

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Therapy, Ideology, And Social Change - Mental Healing In Urban Ghana

by Leith Mullings

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Therapy, Ideology, And Social Change - Mental Healing In Urban Ghana

by Leith Mullings

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Mammal Skin

by V.E. Sokolov

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Lives At Risk - Public Health In Nineteenth-Century Egypt

by Laverne Kuhnke

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Mammal Skin

by V.E. Sokolov

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Lives At Risk - Public Health In Nineteenth-Century Egypt

by Laverne Kuhnke

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Maternity, Medicine, And Power - Reproductive Decisions In Urban Benin

by Carolyn Fishel Sargent

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The End Of An Illusion - The Future Of Health Policy In Western Industrialized Nations

by Jean De Kervasdoue, John R. Kimberly e Victor G. Rodwin

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