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Volume 2 (2007): Issue 2 (Dec 2007): Medical Anthropology of the Middle East. Guest Editors: Soheila Shahshahani and Mohammad Shahbazi

in Anthropology of the Middle East

Table of Contents

Notes
- Contributors
  
  Pages: i–ii
Introduction
- Introduction
  
  Medical Anthropology of the Middle East?
  
  By: Soheila Shahshahani and Mohammad Shahbazi
  
  Pages: v–vi
Articles
- Ordure and Disorder
  
  The Case of Basra and the Anthropology of Excrement
  
  By: Hayder Al-Mohammad
  
  Pages: 1–23
- Traditional Medical Popular Culture in Boir Ahmad, Iran
  
  Explanatory Models, Philosophies and Behaviour
  
  By: Erika Friedl
  
  Pages: 24–37
- Breastfeeding Practices among Pastoral Tribes in the Middle East
  
  A Cross-Cultural Study
  
  By: Aref Abu-Rabia
  
  Pages: 38–54
- Modernisation and Social Change
  
  The Impact on Iranian Elderly Social Networks and Care Systems
  
  By: Mary Elaine Hegland, Zahra Sarraf and Mohammad Shahbazi
  
  Pages: 55–73
- The Health Consequences of Consanguineous Marriage in Kuwait
  
  By: Yagoub Yousif Al-Kandari
  
  Pages: 74–86
Notes from the Field
- Global Health Disparities and a Qashqa'i Nomadic Pastoralist Tribesman's Tale as a Health Worker
  
  By: Mohammad Shahbazi
  
  Pages: 87–102
Reports
- Reports
  
  Books, Films and Conferences
  
  By: Fabrizio Speziale, Mohammad Shahbazi, Soheila Shahshahani, Maryam Roshanfekr, Shahnaz Nadjmabadi and Maria Esther Esteban Torné
  
  Pages: 103–110

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