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The Moral Discourse of Health in Modern Cairo
Persons, Bodies, and Organs
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2014
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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.
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-7979-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-7980-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
188
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Introduction: Society in Medicine and Health Care No access Pages 1 - 32
Chapter 1. Healing Contemporary Life: Examples of Popular Self-Help Guides No access Pages 33 - 56
Chapter 2. Family Life, Health, and Illness: Examples from Buˉ laˉq Abul‘ela No access Pages 57 - 94
Chapter 3. ’Id.d.aght.: A Biomedical Category as Cultural Critique No access Pages 95 - 134
Chapter 4. Health and Wellness in Life and Death No access Pages 135 - 158
Chapter 5. Ethnography as Social Critique No access Pages 159 - 168
