Search Results - discourse

The handbook of clinical linguistics

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. Pragmatics, discourse, and sociolinguistics -- pt. 2. Syntax and semantics -- pt. 3. …”
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Reproductive justice : the politics of health care for Native American women / by Gurr, Barbara Anne

Table of Contents: “…Reproductive oppression, reproductive justice, and the reproductive body -- The ruling relations of reproductive healthcare -- Producing the double discourse : the history and politics of Native-U.S. relations and imperialist medicine -- To uphold the federal government's obligations . . . and to honor and protect : the double discourse of the Indian Health Service -- Resistance and accommodation : negotiating prenatal care and childbirth -- One in three : violence against Native women -- Genocidal consequences : contraception, sterilization, and abortion in the fourth world context -- Community knowledges, community capital, and cultural safety -- Conclusions : Native women in the center.…”
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Fit to be citizens? public health and race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939 / by Molina, Natalia

Table of Contents: “…Interlopers in the land of sunshine : Chinese disease carriers, launderers, and vegetable peddlers -- Caught between discourses of disease, health, and nation : public health attitudes toward Japanese and Mexican laborers in progressive-era Los Angeles -- Institutionalizing public health in ethnic Los Angeles in the 1920s -- "We can no longer ignore the problem of the Mexican" : depression-era public health policies in Los Angeles -- The fight for "health, morality, and decent living standards" : Mexican Americans and the struggle for public housing in 1930s Los Angeles -- Epilogue : genealogies of racial discourses and practices.…”
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'Ending AIDS' in the age of biopharmaceuticals : the individual, the state and the politics of prevention / by Sandset, Tony, 1982-

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The Body and Consent in Psychology, Psychiatry, and Medicine A Therapeutic Rape Culture. by Tosh, Jemma

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Birth on the threshold childbirth and modernity in South India / by Van Hollen, Cecilia Coale

Table of Contents: “…The professionalization of obstetrics in colonial India: The problems of childbirth in colonial discourse -- Maternal and child health services in the postcolonial era -- Bangles of neem, bangles of gold: pregnant women as auspicious burdens -- Invoking vali: painful technologies of birth -- Moving targets: the routinization of IUD insertions in public maternity wards -- Baby friendly hospitals and bad mothers: maneuvering development during the postpartum period -- Conclusion: reproductive rights, choices, and resistance.…”
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Affliction : health, disease, poverty / by Das, Veena

Table of Contents: “…Medicines, Markets, and Healing 8. Global Health Discourse and the View from Planet Earth 9. Epilogue Note Bibliography Index.…”
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Bodies in transition in the health humanities : representations of corporeality /

Table of Contents: “…Hilger -- Charting intersex : intersex life-writing and the medical record / Katelyn Dykstra -- Narrating sex change in Iran : transsexuality and the politics of documentary film / Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi -- Isolated bodies, isolated spaces : anorexia and bulimia in women's autobiographical narratives / Barbara Grüning -- Unseen enemies : neisseria, desire, and bodily discourse / Lisa M. DeTora -- The Human Papillomavirus vaccination : gendering the rhetorics of immunization in public health discourses / Jennifer A. …”
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Immigration, acculturation, and health the Mexican diaspora / by Reichman, Jill S.

Table of Contents: “…Mexican immigrants, health care, and acculturation -- Modeling and measuring acculturation -- Methodological considerations, data collection, and analysis -- Sociodemographic profile -- Models of health, models of illness -- Change over time in health prescriptions -- Cognitive models of how people should behave when sick -- Therapeutic options: awareness and usage of complementary and alternative medicine -- Crossing boundaries: geographical, political, and religious -- Diagnosis and treatment efficacy -- Antibiotic usage and rate of acculturation -- Nervios, stress, sadness, depression: the evolution of a mind/body discourse -- Conclusion.…”
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Once Upon A Virus by Goldstein, Diane E.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : philosophizing in a war zone -- "Tag, you've got AIDS" : HIV in folklore and legend -- Bad people and body fluids : contemporary legend and AIDS discourse -- Making sense : narrative and the development of culturally appropriate health education -- What exactly did they do with that monkey, anyway? …”
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Once Upon A Virus / by Goldstein, Diane E.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : philosophizing in a war zone -- "Tag, you've got AIDS" : HIV in folklore and legend -- Bad people and body fluids : contemporary legend and AIDS discourse -- Making sense : narrative and the development of culturally appropriate health education -- What exactly did they do with that monkey, anyway? …”
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Wastewater analysis for substance abuse monitoring and policy development / by Prichard, Jeremy

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Improving communication in mental health settings evidence-based recommendations from practitioner-led research /

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Revitalizing health for all : case studies of the struggle for comprehensive primary health care / by Labonté, Ronald N, Packer, Corinne, 1967-, Sanders, David, 1945-, Schaay, Nikki

International practice development in nursing and healthcare

Table of Contents: “…Person-centred systems and processes / Brendan McCormack, Kim Manley and Ken Walsh -- The ever-changing discourse of practice development: can we all keep afloat? …”
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Mad tales from the Raj colonial psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58 / by Ernst, Waltraud, 1955-

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Making sense of AIDS culture, sexuality, and power in Melanesia /

Table of Contents: “…ethnographic and statistical insights from New Caledonia / Christine Salomon and Christine Hamelin -- Buying betel and selling sex : contested boundaries, risk milieus, and discourses about HIV/AIDS in the Markham Valley, Papua New Guinea / Bettina Beer -- Silence speaks volumes : elite responses to AIDS in highlands Papua / Leslie Butt --…”
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Soundings in Tibetan medicine anthropological and historical perspectives : PIATS 2003 : Tibetan studies : proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the International Association for Tib...

Table of Contents: “…Himalayan medical encounters: the establishment of biomedicine in Tibet and in Indian exile / Alex McKay -- Integrating abstraction: modernising medicine at Lhasa's Mentsikhang / Vincanne Adams -- Sa cha 'di ma 'phrod na: displacement and traditional Tibetan medicine among Tibetan refugees in India / Audrey Prost -- Sherpa beliefs and western medicine: providing health care at Khunde Hospital, Nepal / Susan Heydon -- Bon lineage doctors and the local transmission of knowing medical practice in Nagchu / Mona Schrempf -- A crisis of confidence: a comparison between shifts in Tibetan medical education in Nepal and Tibet / Sienna Craig -- Making a medical living: on the monetisation of Tibetan medicine in Spiti / Florian Besch -- The land of milk and barley: medicinal plants, staple foods, and discourses of subjectivity in Rgyal thang / Denise Glover -- Engaging the subtle body: re-approaching bla rituals in the Himalaya / Barbara Gerke -- Spirit causation and illness in Tibetan medicine / Geoffrey Samuel -- 'Life-wind illness' in Tibetan medicine: depression, generalised anxiety, and panic attack / Eric Jacobson -- Tibetan medicine and the classification and treatment of mental illness / Colin Millard -- 'Magical movements' ('phrul 'khor) in the Bon tradition and possible applications as a CIM therapy / M. …”
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Simulated patient methodology : theory, evidence and practice /

Table of Contents: “…Murtagh -- Simulated patient methodology and the discourses of health professional education / Nancy L. …”
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