InThe Moral Discourse of Health in Modern Cairo: Persons, Bodies, and Organs, Mohammed Tabishat uses anthropological descriptive methods and discourse analytic perspectives to focus on health care practices in a holistic fashion aimed at preserving and improving life in contemporary Cairo. Tabishat employs therapeutic data as a complex index mirroring the existing relations of power and the various ways they are involved in maintaining and challenging the social order.
InThe Moral Discourse of Health in Modern Cairo: Persons, Bodies, and Organs, Mohammed Tabishat uses anthropological descriptive methods and discourse analytic perspectives to focus on health care practices in a holistic fashion aimed at preserving and improving life in contemporary Cairo. Tabishat employs therapeutic data as a complex index mirroring the existing relations of power and the various ways they are involved in maintaining and challenging the social order.
Mohammed Tabishat is assistant professor of socio-cultural anthropology at The American University in Cairo. His work explores how health care systems constitute indexes for social structure and cultural change. He has conducted fieldwork in Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and Jordan.
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List of tables and figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Society in Medicine and Health Chapter One: Health of "Modern" Life: Examples from self-guides Chapter Two: Family Life, Health, and Illness in Bulaq Abul'ela Chapter Three:'I??agh?: Biomedicine for Social Critique Chapter Four: Society in Life and Death Chapter Five: Ethnography as Cultural Critique Index About the Author
List of tables and figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Society in Medicine and Health Chapter One: Health of "Modern" Life: Examples from self-guides Chapter Two: Family Life, Health, and Illness in Bulaq Abul'ela Chapter Three:'I??agh?: Biomedicine for Social Critique Chapter Four: Society in Life and Death Chapter Five: Ethnography as Cultural Critique Index About the Author
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