The Work of Hospitals: Global Medicine in Local Cultures

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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

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The work of hospitals: global medicine in local cultures

Sargent, Carolyn; Hoke, Morgan K.; Stumo, Samya R.; Leatherman, Thomas L.; Hannig, Anna; Mattingly, Cheryl; Janzen, John M.; Nichter, Mark

Sargent, Carolyn; Hoke, Morgan K.; Stumo, Samya R.; Leatherman, Thomas L.; Hannig, Anna; Mattingly, Cheryl; Janzen, John M.; Nichter, Mark; Sopoh, Ghislain Emmanuel

Abstract

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

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