Anthropology and international health : Asian case studies /

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Author / Creator:	Nichter, Mark.
Edition:	[2nd ed.]
Imprint:	Amsterdam : Gordon and Breach, c1996.
Description:	xxiv, 455 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Theory and practice in medical anthropology and international health ; v. 3
Subject:	Public health -- South Asia -- Case studies. Social medicine -- South Asia. Medical anthropology -- South Asia. Medical anthropology. Social medicine. South Asia.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2736722

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Other authors / contributors:	Nichter, Mimi.
ISBN:	2884491716 (hardcover) 2884491724 (softcover)
Notes:	"First edition ... published in 1989 as Anthropology and international health : South Asian case studies"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Table of Contents:

Introduction to the Series
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Section 1. Women's Reproductive Health
Chapter 1. Cultural Notions of Fertility in South Asia and Their Impact on Sri Lankan Family Planning Practices
Chapter 2. The Ethnophysiology and Folk Dietetics of Pregnancy: a Case Study from South India
Chapter 3. Modern Methods of Fertility Regulation: When and for Whom Are They Appropriate?
Section 2. Child Survival
Chapter 4. Health Social Science Research on the Study of Diarrheal Disease: a Focus on Dysentery
Chapter 5. Social Science Lessons from Diarrhea Research and Their Application to Ari
Chapter 6. Acute Respiratory Illness: Popular Health Culture and Mother's Knowledge in the Philippines
Section 3. Pharmaceutical Practice
Chapter 7. Popular Perceptions of Medicine: a South Indian Case Study
Chapter 8. Paying for What Ails You: Sociocultural Issues Influencing the Ways and Means of Therapy Payment in South India
Chapter 9. Pharmaceuticals, the Commodification of Health, and the Health Care-Medicine Use Transition
Section 4. Health Service Research and Health Communication
Chapter 10. Vaccinations in the Third World a Consideration of Community Demand
Chapter 11. The Primary Health Center as a Social System: Primary Health Care, Social Status, and the Issue of Team-Work in South Asia
Chapter 12. Drink Boiled Cooled Water: a Cultural Analysis of a Health Education Message
Chapter 13. Education by Appropriate Analogy
Epilogue: a Note on Aid
Author Index
Subject Index
About the Authors

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