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Title Medical identities : working at medicine, working at self / edited by Kent Maynard
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2007

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Description 162 pages ; 23 cm
Series Social identities ; v. 2
Social identities ; v. 2
Contents Working at therapeutic personhood / Kent Maynard -- Shaping new identities: general practitioners in Britain and South Africa / Anne Digby -- Pharmacists and other drug-providers in Cambodia: identities and experiences / Ing-Britt Trankell and Jan Ovesen -- The vicissitudes of medical identity in Cameroon: Kedjom "traditional doctors" and an ambivalent clientele / Kent Maynard --
Sexual orientation and gender identity among Zulu diviners / Gina Buijs -- Learning to be an acupuncturist, and not becoming one / Elisabeth Hsu -- Necessary in-betweens: auxiliary workers in a nursing-home hierarchy / Janette Davies -- Midwives' identity in a British hospital: the cost of a normal birth / Jenny Littlewood
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Physicians -- Cross-cultural studies.
Medicine -- Cross-cultural studies.
Professional socialization.
Group identity.
Self.
Health Personnel -- psychology.
Cross-Cultural Comparison.
Ethnic Groups -- psychology.
Self Concept.
Social Identification.
Author Maynard, Kent, 1947-2014.
LC no. 2007007397
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