1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480930603321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : Wolters Kluwer, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-4963-9624-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 pages) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

610.68

Soggetti

Medicine - Practice

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456730903321

Autore

Langwick Stacey Ann

Titolo

Bodies, Politics, and African Healing [[electronic resource] ] : The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania / / Stacey A. Langwick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2011

ISBN

0-253-00196-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Disciplina

398/.353

Soggetti

Anthropology, Cultural - Tanzania

Medicine, African Traditional - Tanzania

Medical care - Tanzania

Traditional medicine - Tanzania

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-290) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910794016903321

Autore

Wan Wan Saiful

Titolo

Malaysia's student loan company : tackling the PTPTN time bomb / / Wan Saiful Wan Jan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

981-4881-68-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (40 p.)

Collana

Trends in Southeast Asia ; ; Number 5

Disciplina

378.362

Soggetti

Student loans

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- FOREWORD -- Malaysia’s Student Loan Company: Tackling the PTPTN Time Bomb

Sommario/riassunto

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.