Storytelling, Marginality, and Community in Australia: How Immigrants Position Their Difference in Health Care Settings

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-21

  Manderson, Lenore ^a   Allotey, Pascale ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Australia; Cross cultural communication; Gossip; Immigrant; Women's health

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNITY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; IMMIGRANT; REFUGEE; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SEX DIFFERENCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CASE REPORT; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MIDDLE EAST; MIGRATION; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STANDARD;

AFRICA, EASTERN; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; FOLKLORE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; ISLAM; MIDDLE EAST; PREGNANCY; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REFUGEES; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; SOCIAL ALIENATION;

EID: 0242468426     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740306767     Document Type: Article

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