Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

An estimated 200 million people in the world suffer from schistosomiasis and according to the World Health Organization it ranks second behind malaria in terms of socioeconomic and public health importance in tropical and subtropical areas. This is a study of the disease in rural Egypt.

Rural health --- Schistosomiasis --- Women --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Bilharziasis --- Bilharziosis --- Katayama disease --- Snail fever --- Distomatosis --- Hygiene, Rural --- Rural public health --- Environmental health --- Health --- Public health --- Medicine, Rural --- Health and hygiene

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Medicine, Rural --- Rural health --- Rural Health Services. --- Japan. --- Health Services, Rural --- Rural Health Center --- Services, Rural Health --- Center, Rural Health --- Centers, Rural Health --- Health Center, Rural --- Health Centers, Rural --- Health Service, Rural --- Rural Health Centers --- Rural Health Service --- Service, Rural Health --- Hygiene, Rural --- Rural public health --- Rural medicine --- Suburban Health Services --- Environmental health --- Health --- Public health --- Bonin Islands

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This monograph, a coherent and consistent historical narrative about Romania's modernization, focuses on one section of the country's elites of the late nineteenth century, namely the health professionals, and on the imagery they constructed as they interacted with the peasant and his world. Doctors ventured out of cities and became a familiar sight on dusty country roads in of Moldavia and Wallachia. Beyond a charitable impulse they did so thru patriotism as the rural world became ever more prominent within the national ideology. Furthermore, new health legislation required the district general practitioner (medicul de plasă) to visit the villages in his catchment area twice a month. Based on solid original research, the book describes rural conditions of the time and the efforts aiming to improve peasants' way of life with abundant "es from doctors' public health reports and memoirs. The book sheds light on a variety of microscale realities of social life in the medical discourse on the peasant and the rural world in the mirror of medical discourse. Themes include general hygiene, clothing, dwellings, nutrition, drinking habits and healing practices of the peasantry, in the eye of medical specialists. Related official measures, laws, regulations, norms about public health are also discussed in the frame of wider modernizing processes.

Social medicine --- Medicine, Rural --- Rural health --- Medical care --- Medical sociology --- Medicine --- Medicine, Social --- Public health --- Public welfare --- Sociology --- Medical ethics --- Medical sociologists --- Rural medicine --- Hygiene, Rural --- Rural public health --- Environmental health --- Health --- History --- Social aspects --- Peasants, Personal narratives, Public health, Romania, Rural conditions.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This book provides an ethnographic account of the ways in which biomedicine, as a part of the modernization of healthcare, has been localized and established as the culturally dominant medical system in rural Bangladesh. Dr Faruk Shah offers an anthropological critique of biomedicine in rural Bangladesh that explains how the existing social inequalities and disparities in healthcare are intensified by the practices undertaken in biomedical health centres through the healthcare bureaucracy and local gendered politics. This work of villagers’ healthcare practices leads to a fascinating analysis of the local healthcare bureaucracy, corruption, structural violence, commodification of health, pharmaceutical promotional strategies and gender discrimination in population control. Shah argues that biomedicine has already achieved cultural authority and acceptability at almost all levels of the health sector in Bangladesh. However, in this system healthcare bureaucracy is shaped by social capital, power relations and kin networks, and corruption is a central element of daily care practices.

Rural health. --- Hygiene, Rural --- Rural public health --- Environmental health --- Health --- Public health --- Medicine, Rural --- Medical anthropology. --- Social medicine. --- Women in development. --- Medical Anthropology. --- Medical Sociology. --- Development and Gender. --- Development and women --- GAD (Gender and development) --- Gender and development --- WAD (Women and development) --- WID (Women in development) --- Women and development --- Medical care --- Medical sociology --- Medicine --- Medicine, Social --- Public welfare --- Sociology --- Medical ethics --- Medical sociologists --- Anthropology --- Social aspects --- Anthropological aspects

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Health Policy --- Rural Health --- History, 19th Century --- History, 20th Century --- Public health --- Rural health --- history --- History --- Hygiene, Rural --- Rural public health --- Environmental health --- Health --- Medicine, Rural --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Social hygiene --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Health Policy - history - Europe --- Rural Health - history - Europe --- History, 19th Century - Europe --- History, 20th Century - Europe --- Public health - Europe - History - 19th century --- Public health - Europe - History - 20th century --- Rural health - Europe - History