The Work of Hospitals: Global Medicine in Local Cultures
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