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Remembering to Live: Illness at the Intersection of Anxiety and Knowledge in Rural Indonesia
M. Cameron Hay
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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 knowledge. Hay addresses complex questions regarding cultural models, agency, and other relationships to conclude that the ethnomedical knowledge they use to cope with their illnesses ironically inhibits improvements in their health care.
M. Cameron Hay is a NSF Advance Fellow and an Assistant Adjunct Professor at the UCLA Center for Culture and Health.
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Cover
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Title
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Copyright
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Dedication
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Part I Less than Healthy
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1. Written on the Body
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2. Learning Sasak Anatomy
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Interlude: Learning to Be Vulnerable
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3. A World Full of Dangers
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4. Agents of Coping
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Part II Coping with Illness
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Case Study: An Ill Child
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5. Naming an Illness
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6. Winged Words: The Politics of Communication about Illness
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7. Communication Slippages: Interactions with Biomedicine
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Denouement: Epitaph for Lo Budin
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8. Time to Remember
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9. Illness at the Intersection of Anxiety and Knowledge
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Epilogue: The Irony of Knowledge
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Glossary
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References
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Index
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Published: 2001
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- 978-0-472-02631-9 (ebook)
- 978-0-472-06785-5 (paper)