The work of hospitals: global medicine in local culture
Global Health Goals & Local Constraints in a Rural Peruvian Clinic / by Morgan K. Hoke, Samya R. Stumo, and Thomas L. Leatherman -- Science and Sanctity : Biomedicine and Christianity at an Ethiopian Hospital / by Anita Hannig -- The Cosmopolitan Hospital / by Cheryl Mattingly -- "Dangerous Disease" : Epilepsy in Asante / by William C. Olsen -- The Salience of the State in Biomedicine : Congo and Uganda Cases / compared by John M. Janzen -- Creating a therapeutic Community : Lessons from Allada Hospital Benin / y Mark Nichter, Ghislain Emmanuel Sopoh, and Roch Christian Johnson -- Medical "Errands" among Women with Cervical Cancer in Guatemala / by Anita Chary and Peter Rohloff -- Routinized Caring or a "Call" to Nursing : Shifts in Hospital Nursing in Rukwa, Tanzania / by Adrienne E. Strong -- "We Work with What We Have, Not with What We Would Like to Have" : Hospital Care in Mexico / by Vania Smith-Oka and Kayla Hurd -- The Navigation of Public Hospitals by West African Immigrants with Cancer in Paris, France / by Carolyn Sargent -- Each Child is Unique : The Responsible US Parent's Take on Hospital Care Gone Wrong / by Elisa J. Sobo -- Making Ethnographic Sense of Cesarean Rates in Greek Public Hospitals / by Eugenia Georges -- The Nightside of Medicine : Obstetric Suffering and Ethnographic Witnessing in a Pakistani Hospital / by Emma Varley -- Afterword / by Claire Wendland.