Background This is the sixth of our 11-paper supplement entitled “Community Health
Workers at the Dawn of New Era”. Expectations of community health workers (CHWs) have …

D esde sus comienzos, la antropología no ha cesado de darnos una lección de gran
importancia, tan vital hoy en día como lo fue en el siglo XIX, si bien con aspectos distintos: la …

La socio-anthropologie considère le" développement" comme une forme particulière de
changement social, qu'un ensemble complexes d'intervenants (ONG, agences nationales …

In the mid-1980s, I was in Nepal looking at the formation of a" national culture" through
interethnic relations in healing. I learned soon enough, though, to simply tell people there …

Since its inception, anthropology has not ceased to teach us a lesson of great importance,
which was as vital in the nineteenth century as it is today, even if in a strikingly different way …

OBJECTIVE:: to describe the perspectives and experiences of women in their use of
antenatal care and in their reasoning on specific antenatal care routines. DESIGN:: two …

The paper focuses on the situational analysis of traditional birth attendants (TBAs) and
skilled birth attendants (SBAs) in Zimbabwe. Against a background of a frail health care …

AIDS has been experienced in Nepal mostly as an expected epidemic. When
epidemiologists in the late 1980s began warning that South Asia would soon be hit by an …

This paper explores the ways in which mental health workers think through the ethics of
working with traditional and faith healers in Ghana. Despite reforms along the lines …

This book examines the meaning of work for women in contemporary Indonesia. It takes a
broad definition of work in order to interrogate assumptions about work and economic …