
Work of Hospitals
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction / William C. Olsen and Carolyn Sargent
- Part One. Global Medicines in Local Cultures
- Chapter 1. Global Health Goals and Local Constraints in a Rural Peruvian Clinic / Morgan K. Hoke, Samya R. Stumo, and Thomas L. Leatherman
- Chapter 2. Science and Sanctity: Biomedicine and Christianity at an Ethiopian Hospital / Anita Hannig
- Chapter 3. The Cosmopolitan Hospital / Cheryl Mattingly
- Chapter 4. "Dangerous Disease": Epilepsy in Asante / William C. Olsen
- Chapter 5. The Salience of the State in Biomedicine: Congo and Uganda Cases Compared / John M. Janzen
- Part Two. Care Giving and Hospital Labor
- Chapter 6. Creating a Therapeutic Community: Lessons from Allada Hospital Benin / Mark Nichter, Ghislain Emmanuel Sopoh, and Roch Christian Johnson
- Chapter 7. Medical "Errands" among Women with Cervical Cancer in Guatemala / Anita Chary and Peter Rohloff
- Chapter 8. Routinized Caring or a "Call" to Nursing: Shifts in Hospital Nursing in Rukwa, Tanzania / Adrienne E. Strong
- Chapter 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 Three. Hospitals and the Patient
- Chapter 10. The Navigation of Public Hospitals by West African Immigrants with Cancer in Paris, France / Carolyn Sargent
- Chapter 11. Each Child Is Unique: The Responsible U.S. Parent's Take on Hospital Care Gone Wrong / Elisa J. Sobo
- Chapter 12. Making Ethnographic Sense of Cesarean Rates in Greek Public Hospitals / Eugenia Georges
- Chapter 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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