Work of Hospitals

Work of Hospitals

Global Medicine in Local Cultures

Stumo, Samya R.; Olsen, William C.; Sargent, Carolyn; Olsen, William C.; Janzen, John M.; Sargent, Carolyn; Hoke, Morgan K.; Leatherman, Thomas L.; Hannig, Anita; Mattingly, Cheryl

Rutgers University Press

03/2022

270

Dura

Inglês

9781978823044

15 a 20 dias

524

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Introduction
William C. Olsen and Carolyn Sargent
Part I Global Medicines in Local Cultures
1 Global Health Goals and Local Constraints in a Rural Peruvian Clinic
Morgan K. Hoke, Samya R. Stumo, and Thomas L. Leatherman
2 Science and Sanctity: Biomedicine and Christianity at an Ethiopian Hospital
Anita Hannig
3 The Cosmopolitan Hospital
Cheryl Mattingly
4 "Dangerous Disease": Epilepsy in Asante
William C. Olsen
5 The Salience of the State in Biomedicine: Congo and Uganda Cases Compared
John M. Janzen
Part II Care Giving and Hospital Labor
6 Creating a Therapeutic Community: Lessons from Allada Hospital Benin
Mark Nichter, Ghislain Emmanuel Sopoh, and Roch Christian Johnson
7 Medical "Errands" among Women with Cervical Cancer in Guatemala
Anita Chary and Peter Rohloff
8 Routinized Caring or a "Call" to Nursing: Shifts in Hospital Nursing in Rukwa, Tanzania
Adrienne E. Strong
9 "We Work with What We Have, Not with What We Would Like to Have": Hospital Care in Mexico
Vania Smith-Oka and Kayla J. Hurd
Part III Hospitals and the Patient
10 The Navigation of Public Hospitals by West African Immigrants with Cancer in Paris, France
Carolyn Sargent
11 Each Child Is Unique: The Responsible U.S. Parent's Take on Hospital Care Gone Wrong
Elisa J. Sobo
12 Making Ethnographic Sense of Cesarean Rates in Greek Public Hospitals
Eugenia Georges
13 The Nightside of Medicine: Obstetric Suffering and Ethnographic Witnessing in a Pakistani Hospital
Emma Varley
Afterword
Claire Wendland
References
Notes on Contributors
Index
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Peru; Ethiopia; Congo; Ghana; Uganda; Benin; Guatemala; Tanzania; Mexico; France; The US; Greece; Pakistan; meidcine; hospitals