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Disease change and the role of medicine : the Navajo experience / / Stephen J. Kunitz
Disease change and the role of medicine : the Navajo experience / / Stephen J. Kunitz
Autore Kunitz Stephen J
Pubbl/distr/stampa Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1983
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (238 pages)
Disciplina 362.1/08997
Collana Comparative studies of health systems and medical care
Soggetto topico Navajo Indians - Diseases
Navajo Indians - Mortality
Navajo Indians - Medical care
Navajo Indians - Medicine
Indians of North America - Diseases - Southwest, New
Indians of North America - Mortality - Southwest, New
Indians of North America - Medical care - Southwest, New
Indians of North America - Medicine - Southwest, New
Soggetto non controllato academic
american indian
career
demographics
disease
doctors
economy
fertility
health and wellness
health care
health issues
health professionals
indian reservation
indigenous people
life and death
medical experts
medical field
medical
medicinal
mortality
native american
navajo reservation
navajo
physicians
policy making
public policy
reservation life
reservation
scholarly
social science
social scientists
social studies
ISBN 1-282-35559-7
0-520-90964-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Mortality, Fertility and Social Organization -- 2. Economic and Demographic Change on the Navajo Reservation -- 3. Disease Patterns on the Navajo Reservation -- 4. Traditional Navajo Health Beliefs and Practices (by Jerrold E. Levy) -- 5. Health Care Utilization (with Helena Temkin-Greener) -- 6. Changing Mortality and the Role of Medicine -- Appendix I: Data and Methods -- APPENDIX II -- Notes -- References -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910777954703321
Kunitz Stephen J  
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1983
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Disease change and the role of medicine : the Navajo experience / / Stephen J. Kunitz
Disease change and the role of medicine : the Navajo experience / / Stephen J. Kunitz
Autore Kunitz Stephen J
Pubbl/distr/stampa Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1983
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (238 pages)
Disciplina 362.1/08997
Collana Comparative studies of health systems and medical care
Soggetto topico Navajo Indians - Diseases
Navajo Indians - Mortality
Navajo Indians - Medical care
Navajo Indians - Medicine
Indians of North America - Diseases - Southwest, New
Indians of North America - Mortality - Southwest, New
Indians of North America - Medical care - Southwest, New
Indians of North America - Medicine - Southwest, New
Soggetto non controllato academic
american indian
career
demographics
disease
doctors
economy
fertility
health and wellness
health care
health issues
health professionals
indian reservation
indigenous people
life and death
medical experts
medical field
medical
medicinal
mortality
native american
navajo reservation
navajo
physicians
policy making
public policy
reservation life
reservation
scholarly
social science
social scientists
social studies
ISBN 1-282-35559-7
0-520-90964-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Mortality, Fertility and Social Organization -- 2. Economic and Demographic Change on the Navajo Reservation -- 3. Disease Patterns on the Navajo Reservation -- 4. Traditional Navajo Health Beliefs and Practices (by Jerrold E. Levy) -- 5. Health Care Utilization (with Helena Temkin-Greener) -- 6. Changing Mortality and the Role of Medicine -- Appendix I: Data and Methods -- APPENDIX II -- Notes -- References -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910813915203321
Kunitz Stephen J  
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1983
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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Infertility around the globe [[electronic resource] ] : new thinking on childlessness, gender, and reproductive technologies / / edited by Marcia C. Inhorn, Frank van Balen
Infertility around the globe [[electronic resource] ] : new thinking on childlessness, gender, and reproductive technologies / / edited by Marcia C. Inhorn, Frank van Balen
Pubbl/distr/stampa Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (356 p.)
Disciplina 616.6/92
Altri autori (Persone) InhornMarcia Claire <1957->
BalenFrank van
Soggetto topico Infertility - Developing countries
Infertility - Social aspects
Infertility - Psychological aspects
Soggetto non controllato body politics
childbirth
childlessness
cultural studies
domestic
essay collection
family issues
family life
fertility issues
gender issues
gender
globalization
health and wellness
infertility
medical field
medical issues
pregnancy
reproduction
reproductive health
reproductive technology
scientific
sexuality
social studies
technology
womens health
womens issues
ISBN 1-282-35610-0
0-520-92781-8
1-59734-677-2
9786612356100
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Front matter -- Contents -- 1. Introduction. Interpreting Infertility: A View from the Social Sciences -- 2. The Uses of a "Disease": Infertility as Rhetorical Vehicle -- 3. Fertile Ground: Feminists Theorize Infertility -- 4. The Psychologization of Infertility -- 5. Infertile Bodies: Medicalization, Metaphor, and Agency -- 6. Deciding Whether to Tell Children about Donor Insemination: An Unresolved Question in the United States -- 7. Conceiving the Happy Family: Infertility and Marital Politics in Northern Vietnam -- 8. Positioning Gender Identity in Narratives of Infertility: South Indian Women's Lives in Context -- 9. Childlessness, Adoption, and Milagros de Dios in Costa Rica -- 10. Problematizing Fertility: "Scientific" Accounts and Chadian Women's Narratives -- 11. Is Infertility an Unrecognized Public Health and Population Problem? The View from the Cameroon Grassfields -- 12. Infertility and Matrilineality: The Exceptional Case of the Macua of Mozambique -- 13. Infertility and Health Care in Countries with Less Resources: Case Studies from Sub-Saharan Africa -- 14. The "Local" Confronts the "Global": Infertile Bodies and New Reproductive Technologies in Egypt -- 15. Rabbis and Reproduction: The Uses of New Reproductive Technologies among Ultraorthodox Jews in Israel -- 16. The Politics of Making Modern Babies in China: Reproductive Technologies and the "New" Eugenics -- 17. Conception Politics: Medical Egos, Media Spotlights, and the Contest over Test-Tube Firsts in India -- Contributors -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910783068603321
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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Infertility around the globe [[electronic resource] ] : new thinking on childlessness, gender, and reproductive technologies / / edited by Marcia C. Inhorn, Frank van Balen
Infertility around the globe [[electronic resource] ] : new thinking on childlessness, gender, and reproductive technologies / / edited by Marcia C. Inhorn, Frank van Balen
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (356 p.)
Disciplina 616.6/92
Altri autori (Persone) InhornMarcia Claire <1957->
BalenFrank van
Soggetto topico Infertility - Developing countries
Infertility - Social aspects
Infertility - Psychological aspects
Soggetto non controllato body politics
childbirth
childlessness
cultural studies
domestic
essay collection
family issues
family life
fertility issues
gender issues
gender
globalization
health and wellness
infertility
medical field
medical issues
pregnancy
reproduction
reproductive health
reproductive technology
scientific
sexuality
social studies
technology
womens health
womens issues
ISBN 1-282-35610-0
0-520-92781-8
1-59734-677-2
9786612356100
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Front matter -- Contents -- 1. Introduction. Interpreting Infertility: A View from the Social Sciences -- 2. The Uses of a "Disease": Infertility as Rhetorical Vehicle -- 3. Fertile Ground: Feminists Theorize Infertility -- 4. The Psychologization of Infertility -- 5. Infertile Bodies: Medicalization, Metaphor, and Agency -- 6. Deciding Whether to Tell Children about Donor Insemination: An Unresolved Question in the United States -- 7. Conceiving the Happy Family: Infertility and Marital Politics in Northern Vietnam -- 8. Positioning Gender Identity in Narratives of Infertility: South Indian Women's Lives in Context -- 9. Childlessness, Adoption, and Milagros de Dios in Costa Rica -- 10. Problematizing Fertility: "Scientific" Accounts and Chadian Women's Narratives -- 11. Is Infertility an Unrecognized Public Health and Population Problem? The View from the Cameroon Grassfields -- 12. Infertility and Matrilineality: The Exceptional Case of the Macua of Mozambique -- 13. Infertility and Health Care in Countries with Less Resources: Case Studies from Sub-Saharan Africa -- 14. The "Local" Confronts the "Global": Infertile Bodies and New Reproductive Technologies in Egypt -- 15. Rabbis and Reproduction: The Uses of New Reproductive Technologies among Ultraorthodox Jews in Israel -- 16. The Politics of Making Modern Babies in China: Reproductive Technologies and the "New" Eugenics -- 17. Conception Politics: Medical Egos, Media Spotlights, and the Contest over Test-Tube Firsts in India -- Contributors -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910808574803321
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui