Vulnerability and the art of protection
Subtitle: embodiment and health care in Moroccan households
By: Marybeth J. MacPhee
Series: Ethnographic studies in medical anthropology; Carolina Academic Press ethnographic studies in medical anthropology series
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9781611631609
Subjects: Health and hygiene; Health behavior; Health; Social aspects; Women; Risk perception; Medical anthropology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Health promotion reconsidered; title: Health behavior in context; title: Culture and the individual; title: The household production of health; title: Grasping the elusive; title: Vulnerability and protection. Errachidia. Town and province; title: Politics of economic development; title: Health care; title: Social diversity; title: Research design. Maternal-child health in perspective. The politics of home birth; title: Saharan constructions of danger; title: Humoral imbalance; title: The eye; title: Spirit attack; title: Magical curses; title: Microbes. The aesthetics of Saharan domestic life. The lived meaning of health; title: Interiority; title: Unity; title: Balance; title: Purity; title: Discord and change. Vulnerability and security. Vulnerability as embodied experience; title: Variations in the context of transition; title: Embodied structures of vulnerability and security; title: Openness and enclosure; title: Isolation and unity; title: Imbalance and equilibrium; title: Defilement and purification; title: The aesthetic underpinnings of vulnerability management. Naima's pregnancy. Pregnancy customs; title: Pregnant and divorced; title: Intersections of health behavior and vulnerability management. The birth of Fatiha's son. Childbirth customs; title: Fatiha's hospital birth; title: Post-partum complications; title: Lalla Kabira's stolen breastmilk. Breastfeeding customs; title: Lalla Kabira's trouble with stolen milk; title: Good milk and bad milk. Conclusion : embodied knowledge-in-action. Elements of vulnerability in Saharan culture; title: Saharan principles of health practice; title: Mechanisms of embodying cultural knowledge; title: Cultural aesthetics and historic change; title: Applications of embodied vulnerability in a risk society; title: Recommendations for future research.