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racial healthcare disparities and sickle cell disease

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Uncertain suffering

racial healthcare disparities and sickle cell disease

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xiv, 314 p. ; 23 cm

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
334

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Table of Contents

Race and uncertainty
Sickle cell disease in the clinic
Healthcare access and medical uncertainty
The affective dimensions of pain
Uncertain efficacy
Uncertain suffering
Reforming the system
Finding a way out of doxa : anthropology of the imagination
Adolescent transitioning : acculturating patients
To the culture of medicine
Thought experiment : what does it mean to save a life
Rethinking suffering : community-based
Healthcare, alternative medicine, and faith.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Berkeley

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
362.196/15270089
Library of Congress
RC641.7.S5 R68 2009, RC641.7.S5R68 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
334

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL22843320M
ISBN 13
9780520259119, 9780520259126
LCCN
2008054125
OCLC/WorldCat
289095977
Library Thing
9764745
Goodreads
6936987

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL15106111W

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