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Hughes, Linda Ann. "Medical pluralism, collaboration and efficacy studies, explorations in medical anthropology and alternative medicines." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/mq21133.pdf.

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Awah, Paschal Kum. "Treating diabetes in Cameroon : a comparative study in medical anthropology." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/3586.

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This thesis presents and analyses the findings of research into the management of diabetes in one urban and one rural district of Cameroon. The phenomenon of noncommunicable diseases like diabetes mellitus is becoming a recurrent problem in middle and low-income countries, notably in Sub-Sahara Africa. This ethnographic study, in the tradition of medical anthropology, involved over two years of fieldwork, and has been undertaken to shed more light on the paradoxes that underpin the interpretation and management of diabetes in Cameroon. Initially, I set out to study how diabetes was managed in
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Bérubé, Michelle. "Healing Sounds: An Anthropology of Music Therapy." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/38559.

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Music therapy has been recognized as a legitimate health practice in Canada since after the Second World War. While research shows the emotional, social and health benefits of music therapy, researchers have failed to agree on the reason music can be beneficial to health. I argue that affect could be the key to understanding the myriad ways in which music, and music therapy, can have a positive effect on health. Through the lens of affect theory, I explore embodiment, relationship-building and aesthetic creation as three areas in which music can allow the harnessing of affect towards health go
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Allen, Kristen Elaina. "The Making of Medical Subjects: Medical Tourism and Its Adherence to Neoliberal Ideologies." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/208938.

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Anthropology<br>M.A.<br>Medical tourism is not a new phenomenon but in its current form, medical tourism or health travel is a practice that stems from the structures of the healthcare system. For citizens of countries with primarily private healthcare and citizens of countries with socialized healthcare the forces behind seeking international healthcare are economic (cheaper prices) and temporal (long queues), respectively. The foreign nation-state/patient relationship is an integral part in facilitating the medical tourist/hospital relationship and is also a way to discern discrepancies in w
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Flemons, Kristin. "Medical humanitarianism and its mutations: an ethnography of the African Medical and Research Foundation." Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=119569.

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This thesis examines the ways in which the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) may be considered a 'mutation' of medical humanitarianism, across both time (through the course of the organization's history) and space (from humanitarianism's birthplace in Europe to AMREF's headquarters in East Africa). To this end, the author conducted field research with staff at AMREF's Kenya Country Office between June and September, 2012, involving participant observation, field visits, and archival research. In Chapter 1, the Foundation's commitment to projects of medical, technical and bureaucr
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Brunger, Fern M. "A new conception of medical anthropology : the birth of a body politic." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=63781.

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Yip, Julianne. "An anthropology of "avian flu": beyond the nature/culture divide." Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=119459.

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Since its appearance in 2003, avian influenza (AI) has been highly 'productive,' linking into a distinct form diverse elements, among which include: international health organizations and local farmers; governments and AI viruses; wildlife experts and public health practitioners; food regulatory bodies and ecologists; ornithologists and the poultry industry; ordinary citizens and, of course, poultry. From the perspective of an anthropology of thinking, 'AI' is intriguing because it escapes 'nature' and 'culture' concepts that traditionally ordered relationships between man and the natural worl
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Barry, Anne Heather. "A comprehensive critique of international health, medical anthropology, and the legacy of colonialism." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/192285.

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Gartoulla, Rintu Prasad. "Ethnomedicine and other alternative medication practices : a study in medical anthropology in Nepal." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 1992. http://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/335.

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Lambert, Helen Susanna. "Medical knowledge in rural Rajasthan : popular constructions of illness and therapeutic practice." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.385541.

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Minn, Pierre Hong. ""Where they need me": the moral economy of international medical aid in Haiti." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=104501.

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This dissertation examines and analyzes the provision of international medical aid in northern Haiti. Medical aid in this setting comprises a wide range of goods and services, including pharmaceutical supplies and medical equipment, clinical procedures, support for infrastructure projects and training for Haitian medical staff. Based on ethnographic research conducted from 2007 to 2009 among the providers, implementors and recipients of medical aid, this study examines the various collaborations and tensions that result from the provision of health resources across marked social and economic
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Bundy, Henry Erikson. "Klonopin Collectifs, the Charms of Diverted Pharmaceuticals and Other Pleasures of Non-Medical Prescription Drug Use." The University of Montana, 2010. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-05272010-142320/.

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Much of the epidemiological research conducted on non-medical prescription drug use assumes pharmaceuticals to have fixed, inherent euphorigenic qualities. Quantitative analysis of substance abuse depends on drugs acting predictably. However, this conception of pharmaceuticals has failed to account for the absence of pleasure when prescription drugs are taken as part of corrective or curative regimes. For this thesis I will employ Actor Network Theory (ANT) to explain how a prescription drug can emerge alternately as a substance either amenable to, or unresponsive in, producing pleasure. ANT s
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Carruth, Lauren. "The Aftermath of Aid: Medical Insecurity in the Northern Somali Region of Ethiopia." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/203474.

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This dissertation explores the lasting effects of recurrent temporary medical humanitarian operations through ethnographic research in communities, clinical facilities, nongovernmental aid organizations, and governmental bureaucracies in the northern Somali Region of Ethiopia. First, I found that medical humanitarian aid has altered persons' subjective experiences and expectations of biomedicine, spirit possession, health, and healing. Popular health cultures and conceptions of "biomedicine" as well as "traditional medicine" were changing, in part due to repeated exposures to relief operatio
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Follis, Shawna L. "Dental fluctuating asymmetry as a measure of environmental stress in Nasca." Thesis, Purdue University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1571983.

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<p> This thesis evaluates how environmental stressors affected three groups (Nasca, Loro, and Chakipampa) that lived in Nasca during the Early Intermediate Period (ca. A.D. 1-750) and the Middle Horizon (ca. A.D. 750-1000). Using fluctuating asymmetry analysis as a proxy for developmental instability, biological evidence is assessed for differential stress levels incurred by groups occupying the Peruvian south coast. This study found high levels of stress in the Middle Horizon, supporting the hypothesis that populations living in Nasca were unfavorably affected by Wari colonizers. However, str
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Hoeyer, Klaus Lindgaard. "Biobanks and informed consent : an anthropological contribution to medical ethics /." Umeå : Univ, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-358.

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Liu, Jennifer An-Hwa. "Biomedtech nation: Taiwan, ethics, stem cells and other biologicals." Diss., Search in ProQuest Dissertations & Theses. UC Only, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3339196.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, San Francisco with the University of California, Berkeley, 2008.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-12, Section: A, page: 4772. Adviser: Vincanne Adams.
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Binder, Pauline. "The Maternal Migration Effect : Exploring Maternal Healthcare in Diaspora Using Qualitative Proxies for Medical Anthropology." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Internationell mödra- och barnhälsovård (IMCH), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-182870.

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This project explores the 'maternal migration effect'. Following migration to a high-income country with a low maternal mortality rate, we assume that some immigrant women’s reliance upon maternal practices that respond to a low-income, high-mortality context can adversely affect care-seeking and utilization of treatment facilities. At highest risk in the United Kingdom and Sweden are those from Africa's Horn, particularly Somali women who have experienced diasporic migration. By applying constructivist qualitative methods as proxies for medical anthropology, we propose a framework for identif
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Cressy, Allison. "Childbearing in contemporary Africa : situating local realities in structural inequality, or what uchafu has to do with foreign debt /." Connect to online version, 2008. http://ada.mtholyoke.edu/setr/websrc/pdfs/www/2008/253.pdf.

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Norris, Meriel. "Curing the blood and balancing life : understanding, impact and health seeking behaviour following stroke in Central Aceh, Indonesia." Thesis, Brunel University, 2009. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/3871.

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Previous studies have highlighted the importance of understanding the subjective illness experience. Stroke, as the second highest cause of death and highest cause of adult morbidity internationally, is no exception. However, the research to date has significant gaps. Lay understandings of stroke in low and middle income countries remain poorly understood, and very few studies have explored the links between experience and the context in which they occur. These gaps in knowledge have resulted in insufficient attention being paid to the relevance of local contexts in the implementation of inter
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Wasserkrug, Sue 1960. "The experience of asthma: An illness ethnography." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291854.

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Thirty patients at a Tucson respiratory clinic were questioned to elicit data to yield an ethnography of asthma. The methodology involved one structured, open-ended interview per patient. The patients ranged in age from 24 to 82; a range of demographic, sociocultural, and medical variables were represented. Two themes, control and limitation, surfaced as the key issues in the construction of meaning attached to the experience of asthma. Asthmatics feel a loss of control over their lives, which they see as being shaped--to some degree--by the limitations that asthma incurs. The sensation of los
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Woods, Teresa. "Magic, morality and medicine : madness and medical pluralism in Java /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6430.

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Christensen, Pia Haudrup. "Towards an anthropology of childhood sickness : an ethnographic study of Danish schoolchildren." Thesis, University of Hull, 1999. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:3869.

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This thesis is an analytical ethnography of children, aged between six and twelve, who live in Vanlose, a local district of Copenhagen, Denmark. The data were produced during fourteen months of fieldwork in the children's homes, their local school and two after school centres. The methodological insights produced through this point to the importance of a dialogical, reflexive ethnography in conducting research with children. The thesis develops synergies between two theoretical frameworks: first, a reformed anthropology of children; second, critical medical anthropology, in particular the noti
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Messerschmidt, Joy M. "The Cultural Influence and Interpretation of Depressive and Anxiety Disorders." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/anthro_hontheses/2.

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The diagnosis and treatment of depressive and anxiety disorders has changed rapidly in the past century. Western medicine has produced diagnostic criteria, pharmaceuticals, and different therapies, increasing public awareness of these conditions. This research investigates the potential and perceived cultural, familial, and political influences on anxiety and depressive disorders in the current biomedical system; analyzes the effects of this system on the patients within it; and compares the causality, diagnosis, and treatment of these conditions cross-culturally. To accomplish these research
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Quill, Michelle E. "Making it matter: international non-governmental organizations and humanitarian intervention in Bangladesh." Diss., University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5983.

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The research outlined in this thesis explores the practice of providing humanitarian aid to refugees and displaced persons in Bangladesh. This aid, offered in a limited way by international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) is similar to aid provided to refugees in many other parts of the world, however my research reflects the specificities of research in Bangladesh, the particular conditions of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar (Burma) and the practices of aid work in a Muslim-identified aid organization. The purpose of this study was to investigate the strengths and weaknesses of this kin
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Körling, Gabriella. "Lahiya vitesse and the quest for relief : A study of medical pluralism in Saga, Niamey, Niger." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-6268.

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<p>This paper focuses on what people in Saga, a village on the periphery of Niamey, the capital of Niger, do in the face of illness. With limited economic assets and in a context of medical</p><p>pluralism, to which therapeutic alternatives do they turn? And what factors are determinant in the choice that they make? Saga is an old village, which has become increasingly integrated into the expanding urban community of Niamey. It can be described as a semi-urban area in</p><p>which elements of both rural and urban Niger are present. The therapeutic field in Saga is, as in all of Niger, character
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Olson, K. Brooke. "The Household Production of Health and Women's Work: New Directions in Medical Anthropology and Households Research." University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/112153.

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Recent discussions on the household production of health focus on how health and illness are produced in the household. New economic models of the household view it as a site where both production and consumption take place; neo-Marxist refinements have demonstrated that the household may also be characterized by conflicting interests, which often involve gender and age inequalities. This type of micro-level analysis is important in improving the understanding of health behaviors, which may then be used to increase the effectiveness of international health programs, many of which have been thu
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Castle, Carrie. "Cultures of Interpreting: Describing the Role Cultures Play in Medical Interpreting." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1187032562.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Cincinnati, 2007.<br>Advisor: Jeffrey Jacobson. Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Mar. 25, 2009). Includes abstract. Keywords: Culture; Role; Interpreting; Healthcare. Includes bibliographical references.
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Kangas, Beth E. "The lure of technology: Yemenis' international medical travel in a global era." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280190.

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Using Yemen as a case study, this medical anthropological dissertation examines experiences of serious illnesses and injuries in developing countries that lack the financial and medical capabilities to treat them. Yemeni patients suffering from cancer and other complicated conditions must currently go abroad to pursue advanced medical care. Despite the great cost, medical travellers are from all social classes. The dissertation draws on multi-sited and multi-locale research to explore hardships that result when medical possibilities, and awareness of them, surpass financial abilities. I situat
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Vindrola, Padros Cecilia. "Life and Death Journeys: Medical Travel, Cancer, and Children in Argentina." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3395.

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Recent studies on the Argentine public health system have demonstrated that the lack of medical resources in different parts of the country force pediatric oncology patients and their family members to travel to Buenos Aires in order to access care. This internal migration poses difficulties for these families as travel and resettlement are expensive, lead to the separation of family members, and interrupt the child's schooling. This dissertation was designed to document the everyday life experiences of traveling families in order to understand the barriers they faced while attempting to acces
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Thiam, Sara. "Divine Interventions? Humanitarian aid and Qur'anic schools in Senegal." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22024.

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The thousands of Qur'anic school students ("taalibes") flooding the urban streets of Senegal, West Africa, each day begging for spare change to support their schools ("daaras") and scraps of food are inciting a burgeoning humanitarian movement consisting of international non-governmental organizations (NGOs), Christian missions and community action associations. In addition to bringing food, materials, and medical care to these impoverished schools, these groups are driven by Christian and/or secular humanitarian values which are mobilized to generate a change in behavior in "daaras" and comm
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Will, III Willard Wilson. "Making hospital chaplains in an age of biomedicine." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=92199.

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In this dissertation, I explore the training and work of chaplain residents in a large, inner-city university hospital in the eastern United States as a participant in a two-year Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) program, a culturally unique religious apprenticeship that combines (1) pastoral care on assigned hospital units with patients, family, and medical staff with (2) classroom reflection and analysis in a small student cohort with an experienced supervisor-practitioner. I utilize this experience both as a privileged lens onto issues of suffering, reflexivity, and the body and to introdu
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Kral, Michael. "Transforming communities: suicide, relatedness, and reclamation among Inuit of Nunavut." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=40705.

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This thesis is the story of how forms of relatedness in social organization and kinship changed among Inuit after the Canadian government assumed control of their lives. Respect and affection are identified as attributes through which to understand important contexts of relationship among Inuit. Kin and other relations are reviewed before major contact with the Western world, followed by a close look at the dynamics of relational and social change in a number of contexts during the government era after the 1950s. These shifts are readily identifiable in Inuit youth suicide, which as one form o
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Owiti, John Arianda. "Local knowledge of, and responses to, HIV-1/AIDS among the Turkana of Lodwar township." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=18678.

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This study used a broad theoretical framework encompassing an ecosystem approach to HIV-1/AIDS that investigated: local knowledge of HIV-1/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs); local knowledge of the nexus between HIV-1/AIDS and tuberculosis on one hand, and other STIs on the other; the factors of the ecosystem that influence the contraction and transmission of HIV-1; and the local responses to HIV-1/AIDS among the Turkana of Lodwar Township. The study found that, according to the Turkana's local knowledge of HIV-1/AIDS, other sexually transmitted infections, and tuberculosi
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Dirlikov, Emilio. "Engaging avian influenza: the uncertainties and pragmatics of pandemic preparedness in Hong Kong-SAR." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22003.

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This thesis investigates the avian influenza pandemic preparedness project in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR). I explore how the state, through its policies, practices, and actors, engages with the uncertainty posed by a future avian influenza pandemic by forming preparedness protocols that seek to mitigate portended misfortunes in pragmatic ways. I contextualize current preparedness practices into a history of infectious disease management in Hong Kong. Media reports and interviews elucidate nuances between state discourse on avian influenza and state healthcare actors‟ personal
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Kienzler, Hanna. "The differential impact of war and trauma on Kosovar Albanian women living in post-war Kosova." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=96906.

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The war in Kosova had a profound impact on the lives of the civilian population and was a major cause of material destruction, disintegration of social fabrics and ill health. Throughout 1998 and 1999, the number of killings is estimated to be 10,000 with the majority of the victims being Kosovar Albanian killed by Serbian forces. An additional 863,000 civilians sought or were forced into refuge outside Kosova and 590,000 were internally displaced. Moreover, rape and torture, looting, pillaging and extortion were committed. The aim of my dissertation is to rewrite aspects of the recent bellige
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Childerhose, Janet Elizabeth. "Genetic discrimination: genealogy of an American problem." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=86665.

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Genetic discrimination has been transformed from an isolated concern of a handful of professionals into a pressing civil rights and public policy problem in the United States over the last twenty years. My dissertation is a genealogical account of how genetic discrimination has been shaped into a problem of this stature. It answers two questions: Where did the problem come from? How has the problem changed over time?<br>In Part One, I trace the history of concerns about discrimination from the 1970s to the present. Drawing from oral histories with key actors and organizations that shaped earl
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Meloni, Francesca. "Living with uncertainty: an ethnographic study on the agency and belonging of undocumented youth in Canada." Thesis, McGill University, 2014. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=123228.

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Little is known about the lives of undocumented immigrants in Canada, and even less about the experiences of undocumented youth. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this thesis examines the complex interplay between immigration policies and the lives of undocumented youth (14-20 years old) from Latin-American and Caribbean countries living in Montreal. There are two main objectives of this thesis. Firstly, through an examination of Canadian laws and court decisions in recent decades, it aims to investigate how immigration policies define undocumented minors as both threatening Others and vulner
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Victora, Ceres. "Images of the body : lay and biomedical views of the reproductive system in Britain and Brazil." Thesis, Brunel University, 1996. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7299.

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This thesis presents an anthropological study of ordinary people's views about the body in general and the reproductive system in particular, based on two case studies carried out in Britain and in Brazil. I discuss the meanings of lay and biomedical images of the body and identify the ways the researched groups reinterpret the biomedical view of the body anatomy and physiology. Through the analysis of ethnographic material on time, space and domestic organisation in four shantytown groups in Porto Alegre, Brazil and in three different groups in London, UK, I point out the dwelling peculiariti
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Mahumana, Narciso António. "Rethinking indigenous medicine : illness (mis)representation and political economy of health in Mozambique's public health field." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2015. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/58511/.

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This dissertation was motivated by the misrepresentation of, and apparent lack of knowledge about, indigenous medicine in Mozambique. This consequently raised the need to reveal the epistemologies of health, illness and healing; rewrite the historiography; and develop the knowledge of and about this medicine. The dissertation analyses illness representation and the political economy of health. The thesis defended is that indigenous medicine is a form of medical knowledge and practice that represents its illness, therapy and efficacy according to specific epistemological foundations, rooted in
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Rosemann, Achim. "Multipolar technoscience : clinical science collaborations in a changing world system." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2014. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/49218/.

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This dissertation focuses on the formation and governance of international clinical research collaborations in the field of regenerative stem cell medicine, and analyzes these processes against the background of the current transition to a multipolarizing scientific world system. The empirical point of departure of this study is an ethnographic analysis of the establishment of a trans-continental academia-centered clinical trials infrastructure, between researchers based in China, Hong Kong and the USA. Field research was carried out in mainland China and Hong Kong amongst scientists, clinical
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Silverstein, Jason Bryan. "Without Power, Without Glory: Palliative Care for Children the Nation’s Best Hospital Couldn’t Cure." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493557.

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Based on ethnographic fieldwork and drawing on anthropological, clinical, and social science literature, Without Power, Without Glory examines the work of a palliative care team of physicians, social workers, and nurses who cared for children and families who faced catastrophe and could not be cured in an institution whose professional identity, metrics for success, and global advertising campaigns are centered on cure. This dissertation details the social construction of pediatric palliative care, which is often wrongly seen as both synonymous with hospice and clouded by the team’s close rel
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Kelly, Tara B. "Plants, power, possibility : maneuvering the medical landscape in response to chronic illness and uncertainty." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:7d502bb7-8773-41f8-b71e-fe3f78b89cb0.

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This thesis is concerned with plants, chronic illness and medicine in Oku, Northwest Region, Cameroon. I focus on patient strategies to obtain effective medical outcomes, and on how such outcomes may be obtained through seeking traditional medicine in Oku. I argue that biomedical notions of efficacy do not appropriately represent the central and diverse roles that plants play in traditional medicine nor do they correctly represent how people in Oku evaluate the efficacy of plant-based traditional medicine. I argue instead that efficacy must be understood in terms of the emic concept of power.
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Carrière, Natalie. "It Still Isn't Over: A Mother's Experiences of Healing After Childhood Cancer." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32862.

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This autoethnographic account explores my experiences of healing with my daughter and two sons after childhood cancer. My goal was to understand the disconnect between my experiences of persisting fear, grief and trauma and the contradictory messages we encountered during treatment that urged us to resume our ‘normal lives’ at the end of treatment. In analyzing my story, juxtaposed with other anthropologists’ narratives of their journey through cancer and beyond, I realized that my experiences were mediated by prevalent war metaphors in illness; the pervasive social and medical messages and ex
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Osborne, Daniel L. "An analysis of developmental plasticity in structural geometry at the proximal femur in adolescent females living in the United States." [Bloomington] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3264308.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Anthropology, 2007.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-05, Section: A, page: 2031. Advisers: Della Collins Cook; David Burr. Title from dissertation home page (viewed Jan. 9, 2008).
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Winchester, Margaret Susan. "Living with Globalization: The Intersection of Intimate Partner Violence and HIV Infection in Uganda." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1283452912.

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Galanek, Joseph D. "The Social and Cultural Context of Mental Illness in Prison." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1319746577.

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Towghi, Fouzieyha. "Scales of marginalities: Transformations in women's bodies, medicines, and land in postcolonial Balochistan, Pakistan." Diss., Search in ProQuest Dissertations & Theses. UC Only, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3289320.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, San Francisco with the University of California, Berkeley, 2007.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-11, Section: A, page: 4757. Advisers: Sharon Kaufman; Vincanne Adams.
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Reeser, Douglas Carl. "Medical Pluralism in a Neoliberal State: Health and Deservingness in Southern Belize." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5295.

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This ethnography explores the varied contours of a national health care system and how it is used in conjunction with traditional forms of health care in Toledo District, Belize, focused on the largest town of Punta Gorda (P.G.), In a medically plural environment, a variety of health care options are used based on a wide range of social, economic, and structural factors that shape people's choices and decisions. The convenience of and experience with low-cost home- and self-care options make these the most common first choice during an illness event in P.G., however a deeper exploration of hea
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Narahari, Swathi Ms. "Cocktails and Compliance: An Exploration of Provider Discourse Regarding Adherence to ART Medication." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/666.

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HIV is one of the world’s most potent killers. It’s a name we have most likely heard of before, and yet there are aspects of this disease that do not get as much of the spotlight. One such aspect of HIV is adherence. Adherence is a colossal issue when dealing with anti-retroviral (ART) medications. A lack of adherence to ART dosage can lead to viral immunity and even AIDS if not treated. Despite many attempts from providers to solve the issue of adherence, studies tell us that the challenges of adherence lie within deep-seeded sociocultural and economic backgrounds. As a result, an anthropolog
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Abbe, Marisa Kristine. "An Analysis of Cultural Competence, Cultural Difference, and Communication Strategies in Medical Care." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1283441352.

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