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Hittade 5 avhandlingar som matchar ovanstående sökkriterier.
1. Bodily Practices and Medical Identities in Southern Thailand
Sammanfattning : This study explores contemporary practices concerning women’s and children’s bodies, with a special focus on postpartum practices, the treatment of the afterbirth and its cosmological dimensions, and male and female circumcision. At the intersection between traditional midwifery and modern medicine, Muslim women cross the boundaries between different cosmologies and medical systems. LÄS MER
2. The Burden of Responsibility : Predicaments of Environmental Life in the Caraballo Mountains, Northern Philippines
Sammanfattning : Indigenous people are not obviously, or naturally, stewards of the environment. But when the idea that they are such custodians gains legal traction, and when indigenous land-use practices are codified to reflect environmental principles, they become a burden of responsibility that has significant consequences for the lives and the livelihoods of indigenous communities. LÄS MER
3. Navigating Conflicting Norms on Body and Sexuality : Exploring Swedish-Somali Women's and Swedish Welfare Workers' Perceptions of Female Genital Cutting
Sammanfattning : Female genital cutting (FGC), sometimes referred to as female genital mutilation, is the subject of intense debate, exposing tensions between varying cultural values about bodies and sexuality. In Sweden, FGC is framed as a social problem designed to control female sexuality, and national efforts have long aimed to prevent it from being perpetuated. LÄS MER
4. The Negotiation of Urgency : Economies of Attention in an Italian Emergency Room
Sammanfattning : Urgency in a hospital Emergency Room (ER) is not a self-evident state. Urgency is made, by establishing priorities, distributing attention and material resources, and deciding who and what needs to be attended to first – and, simultaneously, who and what has to wait. LÄS MER
5. The Negotiation of Urgency: Economies of Attention in an Italian Emergency Room
Sammanfattning : Urgency in a hospital Emergency Room (ER) is not a self-evident state. Urgency is made, by establishing priorities, distributing attention and material resources, and deciding who and what needs to be attended to first – and, simultaneously, who and what has to wait. LÄS MER
