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Pregnancy, class and biomedical power : factors influencing the prenatal care experiences of low-income women in an Oregon community

Creator:

Pearce, Laurie Kathleen

Abstract:

Low-income women in an Oregon city of approximately 35,000 inhabitants have limited access to prenatal care services during their pregnancies. The purpose of this study was to uncover the impacts of several factors on the experiences of twenty-seven health department clients with public health department prenatal care practitioners and with...

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Masters Thesis
Cultural analysis of the Karakuwa fishing community in Japan and Fishermen's reforestation movement

Creator:

Takahashi, Tokiko

Abstract:

Based on the author's ethnographic research at the Karakuwa fishing community in Japan, this thesis explains a cultural process of the local people's synthesis of the values they place on nature and their everyday behavior in a modern industrial world. Explicated by ethnographic narrative, this study focuses on a revitalization...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis