Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part One. Global Medicines in Local Cultures
5. Chapter 1 Global Health Goals and Local Constraints in a Rural Peruvian Clinic 17
6. Chapter 2 Science and Sanctity: Biomedicine and Christianity at an Ethiopian Hospital 34
7. Chapter 3 The Cosmopolitan Hospital 49
8. Chapter 4 “Dangerous Disease” Epilepsy in Asante 64
9. Chapter 5 The Salience of the State in Biomedicine: Congo and Uganda Cases Compared 82
10. Part Two. Care Giving and Hospital Labor
11. Chapter 6 Creating a Therapeutic Community: Lessons from Allada Hospital Benin 103
12. Chapter 7 Medical “Errands” among Women with Cervical Cancer in Guatemala 119
13. Chapter 8 Routinized Caring or a “Call” to Nursing: Shifts in Hospital Nursing in Rukwa, Tanzania 132
14. Chapter 9 “We Work with What We Have, Not with What We Would Like to Have” Hospital Care in Mexico 147
15. Part Three. Hospitals and the Patient
16. Chapter 10 The Navigation of Public Hospitals by West African Immigrants with Cancer in Paris, France 165
17. Chapter 11 Each Child Is Unique: The Responsible U.S. Parent’s Take on Hospital Care Gone Wrong 182
18. Chapter 12 Making Ethnographic Sense of Cesarean Rates in Greek Public Hospitals 198
19. Chapter 13 The Nightside of Medicine: Obstetric Suffering and Ethnographic Witnessing in a Pakistani Hospital 213
20. Afterword 226
21. References 233
22. Notes on Contributors 255
23. Index 257