| Description |
ix, 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Culture, illness, and healing |
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Culture, illness, and healing.
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| Contents |
Introduction : the cultural politics of child survival / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Birth planning in rural China : a cultural account / Sulamith Heins Potter -- Fertility change, child survival and child development : observations on a rural Kenyan community / Sara Harkness and Charles M. Super -- Food taboos and child survival : a case study from the Coral Sea / Maria Lepowsky -- Female infanticide and child neglect in rural North India / Barbara D. Miller -- Infanticide among the Tarahumara of the Mexican Sierra Madre / Dorothy S. Mull and J. Dennis Mull -- Fitness and survival / Lucile F. Newman -- External pressure/internal change : child neglect on the Navajo reservation / Lizabeth Hauswald -- Cry babies, culture and catastrophe : infant temperament among the Masai / M.W. de Vries --Culture, scarcity and maternal thinking : mother love and child death in Northeast Brazil / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Severe child abuse among the Canadian inuit / Nelson H.H. Graburn -- The treatment of children in the "Dirty War" : ideology, state terrorism and the abuse of children in Argentina . Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco -- Child sexual abuse : implications from the cross-cultural record / Jill E. Korbin -- Preliminary remarks on a study of incest in England / J.S. La Fontaine -- World-view conflict and toddler malnutrition : change agent dilemmas / Claire Monod Cassidy -- Traditional medicine as 'medical neglect' : dilemmas in the case management of a Samoan teenager with diabetes / Nora J. Krantzler -- Child abuse and the unconscious in American popular culture / Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Howard F. Stein -- Bureaucracy and the maltreatment of the child : interpretive and structural implications / Don Handelman -- When cultural rights conflict with the "Best interests of the child" : a view from inside the child welfare system / D. Michael Hughes. |
| Note |
Papers presented at a workshop held in Denver in 1984. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| Subject |
Child abuse -- Congresses.
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Child welfare -- Congresses.
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| Added Author |
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy.
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| ISBN |
155608028X |
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1556080298 (paperback) |
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