Possessed and the Dispossessed

Lesley A Sharp

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care | nr. 37
• This finely drawn portrait of a complex, polycultural urban community in Madagascar emphasizes the role of spirit medium healers, a group heretofore s... Lees meer

Emptying Beds

Lorna A Rhodes

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care | nr. 27
• The work of inner-city emergency psychiatric units might best be described as "medicine under siege." Emptying Beds is the result of the author's two-... Lees meer

Nan-Ching

Paul U Unschuld

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care
• Although the study of traditional Chinese medicine has attracted unprecedented attention in recent years, Western knowledge of it has been limited bec... Lees meer

Maternity, Medicine, and Power

Carolyn Fishel Sargent

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care
• This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the bri... Lees meer

Old, Alone, and Neglected

Jeanie Schmit Kayser-Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care | nr. 4
• As the median age of the population increases, the care and housing of the elderly in the U.S. are of increasing concern. Jeanie Kayser-Jones compares... Lees meer

Therapy, Ideology, and Social Change

Leith Mullings

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care
• This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the bri... Lees meer

The Social Basis of Health and Healing in Africa

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care | nr. 30
• Until now our knowledge of African health and healing has been extensive but fragmented. Here in eighteen essays is the first comprehensive account of... Lees meer

Taming the Wind of Desire

Carol Laderman

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care | nr. 29
• Charged with restoring harmony and relieving pain, the Malay shaman places his patients in trance and encourages them to express their talents, drives... Lees meer

Mammal Skin

V E Sokolov

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care
• This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the bri... Lees meer

Essential Subtleties on the Silver Sea

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care | nr. 38
• Here is the first translation into English of the complete Yin-Hai Jing-Wei , a classic fifteenth-century text on Chinese ophthalmology. As one of the... Lees meer

Medicine in China

Paul U Unschuld

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care | nr. 13
• A comprehensive and analytical study of therapeutic concepts and practices in China. It traces the history of documented health care from its earliest... Lees meer

From the Fat of Our Souls

Libbet Crandon-Malamud

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care | nr. 26
• From the Fat of Our Souls offers a revealing new perspective on medicine, and the reasons for choosing or combining indigenous and cosmopolitan medica... Lees meer

The Making of Rehabilitation

Glenn Gritzer, Arnold Arluke

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care | nr. 15
• Focusing on the history of one medical field--rehabilitation medicine--this book provides the first systematic analysis of the underlying forces that ... Lees meer

Maternity, Medicine, and Power

Carolyn Fishel Sargent

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care
• This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the bri... Lees meer

Disease Change and the Role of Medicine

Stephen J Kunitz

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care | nr. 6
• Stephen Kunitz's work raises crucial issues for public policy in the medical field, and will be valuable for social scientists, physicians, and health... Lees meer

Lives at Risk

Laverne Kuhnke

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care
• Lives at Risk describes the introduction of Western medicine into Egypt. The two major innovations undertaken by Muhammad Ali in the mid-nineteenth ce... Lees meer

Lives at Risk

Laverne Kuhnke

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care
• Lives at Risk describes the introduction of Western medicine into Egypt. The two major innovations undertaken by Muhammad Ali in the mid-nineteenth ce... Lees meer

Medical Ethics in Imperial China

Paul U Unschuld

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care
• This book, the first comprehensive history of explicity medical ethics in pre-modern China, spans the period from 500 B.C. through the nineteenth cent... Lees meer

Wives and Midwives

Carol Laderman

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care | nr. 7
• In this widely-praised study, Carol Laderman provides a vivid picture of the daily life of rural Malays as she focuses on their dietary practices and ... Lees meer

The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire

John M Janzen

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care | nr. 1
• In this book, Dr. John M. Janzen describes patterns of healing among the BaKongo of Lower Zaire in Africa, who, like many peoples elsewhere, utilize c... Lees meer

Susto, a Folk Illness

Arthur J Rubel, Carl W O'Nell, Rolando Collado-Ardon

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care | nr. 12
• Widespread throughout Latin America, susto is a folk illness associated with a broad array of symptoms. It is considered by susceptible populations to... Lees meer

Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture

Arthur Kleinman

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care | nr. 5
• From the Preface, by Arthur Kleinman: Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture presents a theoretical framework for studying the relationship be... Lees meer

Medieval Islamic Medicine

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care | nr. 9
• This book describes medieval Islamic medicine and to explore a specific medical text, On the Prevention of Bodily Ills in Egypt by 'Ali ibn Ridwan (A.... Lees meer

Therapy, Ideology, and Social Change

Leith Mullings

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care
• This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the bri... Lees meer