The Moral Discourse of Health in Modern Cairo: Persons, Bodies, and Organs
Author:   Mohammed Tabishat
Publisher:   Lexington Books
ISBN:  

9780739179796


Pages:   202
Publication Date:   21 March 2014
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Mohammed Tabishat
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.435kg
ISBN:  

9780739179796


ISBN 10:   0739179799
Pages:   202
Publication Date:   21 March 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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List of tables and figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Society in Medicine and Health Chapter One: Health of “Modern” Life: Examples from self-guides Chapter Two: Family Life, Health, and Illness in Būlāq Abul‘ela Chapter Three:‘Iḍḍaghṭ: Biomedicine for Social Critique Chapter Four: Society in Life and Death Chapter Five: Ethnography as Cultural Critique Index About the Author

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Mohammed Tabishat has made a valuable contribution to our understanding of the everyday health problems of the poorer classes in Cairo. Most interesting is his account of the Islamic concept of al-nafs that people employ to address-as a single field of dis-ease-what biomedicine identifies as either 'physical' or 'psychological' illness and as its social, political, and economic causes. Strongly recommended. -- Talal Asad, The City University of New York


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Mohammed Tabishat is assistant professor of socio-cultural anthropology at The American University in Cairo. His work explores how health care systems constitute indexes for social structure and cultural change. He has conducted fieldwork in Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and Jordan.

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