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عنوان
Children's health and well-being :

پدید آورنده
Sholkamy, Hania Mohamed

موضوع
GN Anthropology ; RA Public aspects of medicine

رده

کتابخانه
Center and Library of Islamic Studies in European Languages

محل استقرار
استان: Qom ـ شهر: Qom

Center and Library of Islamic Studies in European Languages

تماس با کتابخانه : 32910706-025

NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER

Number
TLets541489

TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY

Title Proper
Children's health and well-being :
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Sholkamy, Hania Mohamed
Title Proper by Another Author
an ethnography of an upper Egyptian village

.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1997

DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Thesis (Ph.D.)
Text preceding or following the note
1997

SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT

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This thesis is about children's health and well-being as constructed and maintained by villagers in Upper Egypt. It is based on primary data collected during eighteen months of fieldwork in a small village in the district of Abnube in the east of Assiut Governorate in the south of Egypt. The thesis also relies on secondary statistical and qualitative sources. This work makes three propositions concerning children's health. The first proposition is that children's heal th is a distinct part of the traditional medical cultures of Egypt and one that should be integral to the analysis of medical culture, pluralism, and services. More over, the focus on child health and ill-health provides a critical commentary to on-going debates about health and healing in Egypt. The second proposition is that the study of child health and ill-health is an essential and missing component of the ethnography of rural Egyptians. An awareness of the relevance of children, and of the efforts of families to keep them healthy, to the cultural, social, political, and economic construction of family and village can significantly add to anthropological understanding of the Egyptian peasant and village. The third proposition is that the study of health as a socially and historically constructed category is as important, if not more so, than the study of ill-health. This work looks at processes whereby health is conceptualized and their relevance to the ensuing constructions of ill-health. The work also tries to establish the relationship between village discourses on health and the discourse dominant in the language, services, and structures of modern biomedicine in Egypt. In this thesis, health is viewed as an arena where cultural, historical, social, as well as economic relationships and structures come to shape family practices and choices.

TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT

GN Anthropology ; RA Public aspects of medicine

PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY

Sholkamy, Hania Mohamed

CORPORATE BODY NAME - SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITY

London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London)

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