TY - JOUR
AU - YINGLING, KRISTI
AB -  510 their own sexual behavior and by Nepalese who were shocked by the sudden introduction of this program into national airwaves gave Stacy Pigg ample material with which to analyze a cultural process as it was taking place. This chapter captures the excitement of an emerging cultural event and its trajectory. It asks (but fittingly does not answer) the seemingly heretical question, “Do we always have to attend to cultural appropriateness before we introduce innovation?” Social dimensions of cultural context receive attention in Mark Nichter’s chapter on interpersonal dynamics and health care in Philippine and South Indian settings. The two case studies presented here give the reader a sense of what an individual goes through to try to enact biomedically recommended care under living conditions in which traditional beliefs, sleeping arrangements, economics, and the health of other family members all come into play. The Philippine case study has greater depth than the South Indian case, but both contribute to Nichter’s point: health care takes place in social contexts that are absolutely crucial to its success but are not well understood by caregivers. Marina Roseman’s view of cultural adaptation in Malaysian Temiars represents a major departure from the other 
TI - Stress and Resilience: The Social Context of Reproduction in Central Harlem
JF - Medical Anthropology Quarterly
DO - 10.1525/maq.2004.18.4.515
DA - 2004-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/stress-and-resilience-the-social-context-of-reproduction-in-central-iQb0njP5OV
SP - 515
VL - 18
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -