Gender, Sickness, and Healing in Rural Egypt Ethnography in Historical Context - Conflict and Social Change Series

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The dynamics of sickness and healing are examined in terms of male-female power relations in this study of an Egyptian village. The author goes beyond an account of gender dynamics in a culturally embedded medical discourse by putting her cases of "compromised" health in the context of the local social structure and ideology and linking them with state policies since the Nasser era.

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Book information

ISBN:	9780813381664
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis
Imprint:	Routledge
Pub date:	16 Jun 1993
DEWEY:	362.10962
DEWEY edition:	20
Language:	English
Number of pages:	237
Weight:	-1g
Height:	230mm
Width:	165mm
Spine width:	25mm