Remembering To Live : Illness At The Intersection Of Anxiety And Knowledge In Rural Indonesia.
Sasaks, a people of the Indonesian archipelago, cope with one of the country's worst health records by employing various medical traditions, including their own secret ethnomedical knowledge. But anxiety, in the presence and absence of illness, profoundly shapes the ways Sasaks use healing and...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Michigan Press
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Less than Healthy; 1. Written on the Body; 2. Learning Sasak Anatomy; Interlude: Learning to Be Vulnerable; 3. A World Full of Dangers; 4. Agents of Coping; Part II Coping with Illness; Case Study: An Ill Child; 5. Naming an Illness; 6. Winged Words: The Politics of Communication about Illness; 7. Communication Slippages: Interactions with Biomedicine; Denouement: Epitaph for Lo Budin; 8. Time to Remember; 9. Illness at the Intersection of Anxiety and Knowledge; Epilogue: The Irony of Knowledge; Glossary; References; Index.