Health and identity in Egypt /

Health and identity in Egypt /

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Other Authors: Sholkamy, Hania., Ghannam, Farha, 1963-

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Cairo ; New York, NY : American University in Cairo Press, 2004.

Subjects:

Attitude to Health > ethnology > Egypt.
Health Behavior > ethnology > Egypt.
Self Concept > Egypt.
Social Environment > Egypt.
Social Identification > Egypt.
Social medicine > Egypt.
Health.
Beauty, Personal.

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Call Number: RA418.3 .E3 S56 2004

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Table of Contents:
  • A discourse of resistance : spirit possession among women in low-income Cairo / Heba El-Kholy
  • Quest for beauty : globalization, identity, and the production of gendered bodies in low-income Cairo / Farha Ghannam
  • Fi nas wi fi nas : class culture and illness practice in Egypt / Montasser M. Kamal
  • Mushahra : the justice and injustice of infertility ; Conclusion : the medical cultures of Egypt / Hania Sholkamy.