The work of hospitals : global medicine in local cultures

The work of hospitals : global medicine in local cultures / edited by William C. Olsen and Carolyn Sargent.

In the context of neoliberalism and global austerity measures, health care institutions around the world confront numerous challenges in attempting to meet the needs of local populations. Examples from Africa (including, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Congo), Latin America (Peru, Mexico, Guatemala), Western E...

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Other Authors: Olsen, William C. (Editor), Sargent, Carolyn F., 1947- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Hospitals.
World health.
hospitals (institutions, health facility)
MEDICAL > General.
Hospitals
World health
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Table of 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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