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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
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1983 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 |
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Kunitz Stephen J
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| 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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