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Medical Identities : Healing, Well Being and Personhood / ed. by Kent Maynard.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Social Identities ; 2Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2007]Copyright date: 2007Description: 1 online resource (172 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781789205961
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616 22
LOC classification:
  • R727 .M48 2007eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION WORKING AT THERAPEUTIC PERSONHOOD -- 1 SHAPING NEW IDENTITIES: GENERAL PRACTITIONERS IN BRITAIN AND SOUTH AFRICA -- 2 PHARMACISTS AND OTHER DRUG-PROVIDERS IN CAMBODIA: IDENTITIES AND EXPERIENCES -- 3 THE VICISSITUDES OF MEDICAL IDENTITY IN CAMEROON: KEDJOM ‘TRADITIONAL DOCTORS’ AND AN AMBIVALENT CLIENTELE -- 4 SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER IDENTITY AMONG ZULU DIVINERS -- 5 LEARNING TO BE AN ACUPUNCTURIST, AND NOT BECOMING ONE -- 6 NECESSARY IN-BETWEENS: AUXILIARY WORKERS IN A NURSING-HOME HIERARCHY -- 7 MIDWIVES’ IDENTITY IN A BRITISH HOSPITAL: THE COST OF A NORMAL BIRTH -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX
Summary: Illness and misfortune more broadly are ubiquitous; thus, healing roles or professions are also universal. Ironically, however, little attention has been paid to those who heal or promote wellbeing. These come in many different guises: in some societies, healing is highly professional and specialized; in some cases, it is more preventative, in others more interventionist. Based on rich and wide-ranging ethnographic data and especially written for this volume, these essays look at how a great variety of health providers are perceived – from traditional healers to physicians, from diviners to nursing home providers. Conversely, the authors also ask how healers, or those concerned with wider matters of well being, view themselves and to what degree social attitudes differ in regard to who these people are, as well as their power, prestige and activities. As these essays demonstrate, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, or state policy may all play formative roles in shaping the definition of health and wellbeing, how they are delivered, and the character and prestige of those who provide for our health and welfare in society.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION WORKING AT THERAPEUTIC PERSONHOOD -- 1 SHAPING NEW IDENTITIES: GENERAL PRACTITIONERS IN BRITAIN AND SOUTH AFRICA -- 2 PHARMACISTS AND OTHER DRUG-PROVIDERS IN CAMBODIA: IDENTITIES AND EXPERIENCES -- 3 THE VICISSITUDES OF MEDICAL IDENTITY IN CAMEROON: KEDJOM ‘TRADITIONAL DOCTORS’ AND AN AMBIVALENT CLIENTELE -- 4 SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER IDENTITY AMONG ZULU DIVINERS -- 5 LEARNING TO BE AN ACUPUNCTURIST, AND NOT BECOMING ONE -- 6 NECESSARY IN-BETWEENS: AUXILIARY WORKERS IN A NURSING-HOME HIERARCHY -- 7 MIDWIVES’ IDENTITY IN A BRITISH HOSPITAL: THE COST OF A NORMAL BIRTH -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

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Illness and misfortune more broadly are ubiquitous; thus, healing roles or professions are also universal. Ironically, however, little attention has been paid to those who heal or promote wellbeing. These come in many different guises: in some societies, healing is highly professional and specialized; in some cases, it is more preventative, in others more interventionist. Based on rich and wide-ranging ethnographic data and especially written for this volume, these essays look at how a great variety of health providers are perceived – from traditional healers to physicians, from diviners to nursing home providers. Conversely, the authors also ask how healers, or those concerned with wider matters of well being, view themselves and to what degree social attitudes differ in regard to who these people are, as well as their power, prestige and activities. As these essays demonstrate, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, or state policy may all play formative roles in shaping the definition of health and wellbeing, how they are delivered, and the character and prestige of those who provide for our health and welfare in society.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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