Medical identities : : health, well-being and personhood / / edited by Kent Maynard.

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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books,, 2007.
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (162 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Working at therapeutic personhood / Kent Maynard
  • Shaping new identities: general practitioners in Britain and South Africa / Anne Digby
  • Pharmacists and other drug-providers in Cambodia: identities and experiences / Ing-Britt Trankell and Jan Ovesen
  • The vicissitudes of medical identity in Cameroon: Kedjom "traditional doctors" and an ambivalent clientele / Kent Maynard
  • Sexual orientation and gender identity among Zulu diviners / Gina Buijs
  • Learning to be an acupuncturist, and not becoming one / Elisabeth Hsu
  • Necessary in-betweens: auxiliary workers in a nursing-home hierarchy / Janette Davies
  • Midwives' identity in a British hospital: the cost of a normal birth / Jenny Littlewood.