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

Publication Info. New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (162 pages) : illustrations
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Physicians -- Cross-cultural studies.
Medicine -- Cross-cultural studies.
Professional socialization.
Group identity.
Self.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Maynard, Kent, 1947-2014 editor.
Other Form: Print version: Medical identities : health, well-being and personhood. New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2007 162 pages 9781845450380 (DLC) 2007007397
ISBN 9781845450380
9781845451004
9781789205961 (e-book)

 
    
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