Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction--working at therapeutic personhood / Kent Maynard
  • Shaping new identities: general practitioners in Britain and South Africa / Anne Digby
  • Pharmacists and other drug-providers in Cambodia: identities and experiences / Ing-Britt Trankell and Jan Ovesen
  • The vicissitudes of medical identity in Cameroon: Kedjom 'traditional doctors' and an ambivalent clientele / Kent Maynard.
  • Sexual orientation and gender identity among Zulu diviners / Gina Buijs
  • Learning to be an acupuncturist, and not becoming one / Elisabeth Hsu
  • Necessary in-betweens: auxiliary workers in a nursing-home hierarchy / Janette Davies
  • Midwives' identity in a British hospital: the cost of a normal birth / Jenny Littlewood.