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Health and identity in Egypt /

Health and identity in Egypt / edited by Hania Sholkamy and Farha Ghannam. - Cairo ; New York, NY : American University in Cairo Press, 2004. - ix, 129 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

A discourse of resistance : spirit possession among women in low-income Cairo / Heba El-Kholy -- Quest for beauty : globalization, identity, and the production of gendered bodies in low-income Cairo / Farha Ghannam -- Fi nas wi fi nas : class culture and illness practice in Egypt / Montasser M. Kamal -- Mushahra : the justice and injustice of infertility ; Conclusion : the medical cultures of Egypt / Hania Sholkamy.

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Beauty, Personal.
Health.
Social medicine--Egypt.
Attitude to Health--ethnology--Egypt.
Health Behavior--ethnology--Egypt.
Self Concept--Egypt.
Social Environment--Egypt.
Social Identification--Egypt.

RA418.3.E3 / H43 2004

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