Anthropology, Cultural
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Surviving life as a woman: a critical ethnography of violence in the lives of female domestic workers in Malawi.

30 Aug 2009 A common form of employment for low-income third world women is domestic work. The power dynamics in this type of employer-employee relationship may place women at risk for abuse. Our aim in conducting this qualitative inquiry was to describe the ... Read more...

'A potential fifth column': conflicts and struggles for control in the context of local NHS privatization.

30 Aug 2009 This article uses case study data to discuss how a new procurement policy (Local Improvement Finance Trust, or LIFT) in English primary care may affect general practitioners' control over their work. LIFT, a series of 51 public-private partnerships, ... Read more...

The intensive medical care of sick, impaired, and preterm newborns in Israel and the production of vulnerable neonatal subjectivities.

30 Aug 2009 Following reduction in mortality rates of term and preterm babies hospitalized in NICUs, neonataology refocused its concerns on the survivors' elevated risks of long-term health and developmental problems, thus turning the "intact survival" of ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Anthropology, Cultural'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Surviving life as a woman: a critical ethnography of violence in the lives of female domestic workers in Malawi. 30 Aug 2009
• 'A potential fifth column': conflicts and struggles for control in the context of local NHS privatization. 30 Aug 2009
• President, Society for Medical Anthropology speaking to the national health crisis: voices from medical anthropology. 30 Aug 2009
• The intensive medical care of sick, impaired, and preterm newborns in Israel and the production of vulnerable neonatal subjectivities. 30 Aug 2009
• Community participation in New Mexico's behavioral health care reform. 30 Aug 2009
• Routes to government TB treatment: private providers, family support, and the process of TB treatment seeking among Ugandan women. 30 Aug 2009
• Discourses of dementia: a call for an ethnographic, action research approach to care in linguistically and culturally diverse environments. 24 Aug 2009
• Active compounds and atoms of society: plants, bodies, minds and cultures in the work of Kenyan ethnobotanical knowledge. 30 Jul 2009
• HIV prevention while the bulldozers roll: exploring the effect of the demolition of Goa's red-light area. 30 Jul 2009
• Negotiating complexities: An ethnographic study of intellectual disability and mental health nursing in New Zealand. 30 Jul 2009
• Transforming administrative and clinical practice in a public behavioral health system: an ethnographic assessment of the context of change. 30 Jul 2009
• An ethnographic study of meal programs for homeless and under-housed individuals in Toronto. 30 Jul 2009
• The good, the bad, and the severely mentally ill: Official and informal labels as organizational resources in community mental health services. 19 Jul 2009
• Radiocarbon and stable isotope investigations at the Central Rhineland sites of Gönnersdorf and Andernach-Martinsberg, Germany. 7 Jul 2009
• Strengths and challenges of the first prelicensure baccalaureate of science in nursing program in Pakistan. 29 Jun 2009
• Elder authority and the situational diagnosis of diarrheal disease as normal infant development in northeast Thailand. 29 Jun 2009
• Kin influence on the decision to start using modern contraception: A longitudinal study from rural Gambia. 29 Jun 2009
• Fertility, body size, and shape: An empirical test of the covert maternal depletion hypothesis. 29 Jun 2009
• The grandmaternal niche: Critical caretaking among Martu Aborigines. 29 Jun 2009
• Age at first reproduction and economic change in the context of differing kinship ecologies. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Anthropology, Cultural'

Definition: The study of social phenomena which characterize the learned, shared, and transmitted social activities of a particular ethnic group.

Descriptor UI: D000884

Alternative terms: Anthropology, Cultural; Cultural Anthropology; Ethnography; Ethnographies;

Related Mesh Headings: Ethnopsychology;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: I01.076.201;

History Note: 68

Technical Notes: IM as SPEC: SPEC qualif; NIM as coord with no qualif; DF: ANTHROPOL CULTURAL