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Introduction | |
The Social Production of Disease | |
The Social Epidemiology of AIDS in Africa: Migrant Labor and Sexually Transmitted Disease | p. 1 |
Women and Work in Rural Taiwan: Building a Contextual Model Linking Employment and Health | p. 38 |
Seeking Medical Care | |
Urgency and Utilization of Emergency Medical Services in Urban Indonesia: A Report and Reflection | p. 57 |
Ethnicity, Health Behavior, and Modernization: The Case of Singapore | p. 78 |
Traditional and Modern Medicines | |
The Contribution of Modern Medicine in a Traditional System: The Case of Nepal | p. 109 |
Traditional Medicine in Africa: Past, Present, and Future | p. 122 |
Modern Medicine in Developing Societies | |
Curricular Goals and Student Aspirations in a New Arab Medical College | p. 135 |
Family Care Work and Duty in a "Modern" Chinese Hospital | p. 154 |
A Comparative Analysis of the Culture of Biomedicine: Disclosure and Consequences for Treatment in the Practice of Oncology | p. 180 |
Sociopolitics of Health Care | |
Constraints on Successful Public Health Programs: A View from a Mexican Community | p. 211 |
Implementing Health for All in Nigeria: Problems and Constraints | p. 228 |
Applying Social Science Knowledge in Health Settings | |
Home and Hospital Birthing in Oman: An Observational Study with Recommendations for Hospital Practice | p. 247 |
Strategies for Connecting Social Science Research to Actions for Better Health | p. 265 |
Modernization and Medical Care | p. 285 |
About the Contributors | p. 307 |
Index | p. 309 |
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