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The work of hospitals : global medicine in local cultures /
In the context of neoliberalism and global austerity measures, health care institutions around the world confront numerous challenges in attempting to meet the needs of local populations. Examples from Africa (including, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Congo), Latin America (Peru, Mexico, Guatemala), Western E...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , , , , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick :
Rutgers University Press,
[2022]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part One. Global Medicines in Local Cultures
- Chapter 1 Global Health Goals and Local Constraints in a Rural Peruvian Clinic
- Chapter 2 Science and Sanctity: Biomedicine and Christianity at an Ethiopian Hospital
- Chapter 3 The Cosmopolitan Hospital
- Chapter 4 "Dangerous Disease" Epilepsy in Asante
- Chapter 5 The Salience of the State in Biomedicine: Congo and Uganda Cases Compared
- Part Two. Care Giving and Hospital Labor
- Chapter 6 Creating a Therapeutic Community: Lessons from Allada Hospital Benin
- Chapter 7 Medical "Errands" among Women with Cervical Cancer in Guatemala
- Chapter 8 Routinized Caring or a "Call" to Nursing: Shifts in Hospital Nursing in Rukwa, Tanzania
- Chapter 9 "We Work with What We Have, Not with What We Would Like to Have" Hospital Care in Mexico
- Part Three. Hospitals and the Patient
- Chapter 10 The Navigation of Public Hospitals by West African Immigrants with Cancer in Paris, France
- Chapter 11 Each Child Is Unique: The Responsible U.S. Parent's Take on Hospital Care Gone Wrong
- Chapter 12 Making Ethnographic Sense of Cesarean Rates in Greek Public Hospitals
- Chapter 13 The Nightside of Medicine: Obstetric Suffering and Ethnographic Witnessing in a Pakistani Hospital
- Afterword
- References
- Notes on Contributors
- Index