Remembering to Live: Illness at the Intersection of Anxiety and Knowledge in Rural Indonesia

Hay, M. Cameron

ISBN 10: 0472097857 / ISBN 13: 9780472097852

Published by Jackson, Tennessee, U.S.A.: Univ of Michigan Pr, 2001

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Hardback in fine condition with fine dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Remembering to Live: Illness at the Intersection of Anxiety and Knowledge in Rural Indonesia
• Publisher: Jackson, Tennessee, U.S.A.: Univ of Michigan Pr
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0472097857
• ISBN 13: 9780472097852
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • medical
  • psychology
  • Sociology

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Synopsis

Sasaks, a people of the Indonesian archipelago, cope with one of the country's worst health records by employing various medical traditions, including their own secret ethnomedical knowledge. But anxiety, in the presence and absence of illness, profoundly shapes the ways Sasaks use healing and knowledge. Hay addresses complex questions regarding cultural models, agency, and other relationships to conclude that the ethnomedical knowledge they use to cope with their illnesses ironically inhibits improvements in their health care.
M. Cameron Hay is a NSF Advance Fellow and an Assistant Adjunct Professor at the UCLA Center for Culture and Health.

About the Author

M. Cameron Hay is a NSF Advance Fellow and an Assistant Adjunct Professor at the UCLA Center for Culture and Health.