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UNINA9910480930603321 |
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Field guide to the business of medicine : resource for health care professionals / / edited by Christopher A. Clyne, MD, MBA, Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine, Fellow of the American Heart Association, Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, Fellow of the Heart Rhythm Society, Barrington, Rhode Island ; edited by Britton Jewell, DO, MHA, Fellow in the American College of Osteopathic Internists, Rockville, Maryland |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : Wolters Kluwer, , [2019] |
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©2019 |
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1 online resource (192 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Medicine - Practice |
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Monografia |
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UNINA9910456730903321 |
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Langwick Stacey Ann |
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Bodies, Politics, and African Healing [[electronic resource] ] : The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania / / Stacey A. Langwick |
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Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2011 |
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1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Anthropology, Cultural - Tanzania |
Medicine, African Traditional - Tanzania |
Medical care - Tanzania |
Traditional medicine - Tanzania |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-290) and index. |
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A short genealogy of traditional medicine -- Witchcraft, oracles, and native medicine -- Making Tanzanian traditional medicine -- Hailing traditional experts -- Healers and their intimate becomings -- Traditional birth attendants as institutional evocations -- Healing matters -- Alternative materialities -- Interferences and inclusions -- Shifting existences, or being and not-being. |
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This subtle and powerful ethnography examines African healing and its relationship to medical science. Stacey A. Langwick investigates the practices of healers in Tanzania who confront the most intractable illnesses in the region, including AIDS and malaria. She reveals how healers generate new therapies and shape the bodies of their patients as they address devils and parasites, anti-witchcraft medicine, and child immunization. Transcending the dualisms between tradition and science, culture and nature, belief and knowledge, Langwick tells a new story about the materiality of healing and p |
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UNINA9910794016903321 |
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Wan Wan Saiful |
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Malaysia's student loan company : tackling the PTPTN time bomb / / Wan Saiful Wan Jan |
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Singapore : , : ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, , [2020] |
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©2020 |
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1 online resource (40 p.) |
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Trends in Southeast Asia ; ; Number 5 |
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Front matter -- FOREWORD -- Malaysia’s Student Loan Company: Tackling the PTPTN Time Bomb |
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The Malaysian National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN) was set up in 1997. Since then, it has accumulated a massive debt amounting to RM40 billion in principal plus RM13 billion in interest. All these are guaranteed by the Malaysian government.It is now the biggest provider of student loans in the country and continues to play a very important role in catalysing socio-economic mobility, especially among the ethnic Malays which is the majority community in the country. |
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