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Moral Discourse of Health in Modern Cairo : Persons, Bodies, and Organs by Mohammed Tabishat (2014, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherLexington Books/Fortress Academic
ISBN-100739179799
ISBN-139780739179796
eBay Product ID (ePID)177452505
Product Key Features
Number of Pages202 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameMoral Discourse of Health in Modern Cairo : Persons, Bodies, and Organs
SubjectEthics, Public Health, Health Care Delivery, Regional Studies, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Anthropology / General, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year2014
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSocial Science, Medical
AuthorMohammed Tabishat
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight15.4 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2013-048077
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsMohammed Tabishat has made a valuable contribution to our understanding of the everyday health problems of the poorer classes in Cairo. Most interesting is his account of the Islamic concept of al-nafs that people employ to address--as a single field of dis-ease--what biomedicine identifies as either 'physical' or 'psychological' illness and as its social, political, and economic causes. Strongly recommended., A rich ethnographic account of illness and health in contemporary Cairo. Written with great insight and sensitivity, Tabishat examines how the vocabularies of sickness and well-being reflect an evolving fusion of Islamic concepts of moral and physical health with the perspectives and practices of modern bio-medicine. His work provides a poignant reminder that the health of the body is as much a moral and political-economic condition as it is a physical and physiological one. A major contribution to the medical anthropology of the Middle East.
TitleLeadingThe
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal362.10962/16
Table Of ContentList 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:'Iagh: Biomedicine for Social Critique Chapter Four: Society in Life and Death Chapter Five: Ethnography as Cultural Critique Index About the Author
SynopsisInThe 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., In The Moral Discourse of Health in Modern Cairo: Persons, Bodies, and Organs, Mohammed Tabishat posits that health care practices in Egypt constitute an index to read the way political, economic, and social conditions are experienced by those who use, embody, or live them and cope with their outcomes. These practices carry the code of the socio-cultural matrix in which they are embedded; they speak of the rationalities of different help-seeking efforts. In doing so, they represent the moral principles underlying the social efforts to alleviate pain and maintain life as a whole. Health-related practices in this sense constitute a critical platform to know, feel and live in both the physical and moral sense.
LC Classification NumberGN296.5.E3T23 2014
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