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  • The body of a patient and rational treatment in the managed care era

    Creator:
    Sumii, Kensuke
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    This study aims to identify conceptions of the body, as well as "rational" treatment among primary care practitioners (PCPs) and emergency medicine practitioners (EMPs) dealing with managed care plans. I conducted ethnographic study throughout 1996, and interviewed six PCPs and four EMPs. In the course of my interviews, I discovered...
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    Masters Thesis
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    people's modality of thought. Even the meaning of social phenomena, based upon traditional knowledge, is

  • Thinness in Asia : eating disorders in Singapore as seen through anthropological eyes

    Creator:
    Isono, Maho
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    There has been a growing interest in eating disorders among Singaporean medical professionals since the 1990s, and the Singaporean public is also starting to become aware of the risks of these conditions. This ethnographic research on eating disorders in Singapore, conducted in 2001, however, found that the majority of the...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Street children : the other side of tourism in Hue, Viet Nam

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    Wangsgard, David B.
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    Street children are a significant presence in Hue, Viet Nam's tourist center, where they eat, sleep, work, and play. Utilizing ethnographic methods, this study examines how tourism impacts the lives of street children involved in the industry. The street children have generally been compelled to leave home because of adverse...
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    Masters Thesis
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    also is the study of tourism. In the 1970s, social scientists began publishing a substantial amount of

  • Self-made women of China : experiences in small-scale entrepreneurship

    Creator:
    Searles, Mackenzie L.
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    The purpose of this study is to examine the lived experiences of women small-scale entrepreneurs in Qingdao, China by placing their collective experiences within relevant social and economic frameworks. This study, conducted in 2011 over a six-month period, applies an ethnographic approach based in modified grounded theory to bring together...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Qingdao, China by placing their collective experiences within relevant social and economic frameworks

  • AIDS and Adolescents : perspectives by gender and class on sexual and drugs behavior

    Creator:
    Thianthai, Chulanee
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    Much-needed research on Thai adolescents (age 15-19), the fastest growing group of AIDS victims in Thailand, this study differentiates risk behavior among classes, unlike most AIDS research in Thai society, and focuses on how gender and economic factors among adolescents influence their risk-behavior patterns leading to the contraction of HIV/AIDS....
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    Class Perspectives 97 Class, Education, and Their Links with AIDS 108 The Social and Institutional

  • Living with a military base : a study of the relationship between a US military base and Kin Town, Okinawa, Japan

    Creator:
    Yoshikawa, Hideki
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    This thesis is an exploratory and descriptive study of the relationship between a US military base and Kin Town, Okinawa, Japan, presented in the form of ethnography. Guided by James Scott's theory of "weapons of the weak," it explores the relationship between the two in terms of how the townspeople...
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