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Rebecca R Henry

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ID131392
NAMERebecca R Henry
GIVEN NAMESRebecca R
FAMILY NAMEHenry
SIGNATUREHENRY R R
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS1
TOTAL CITATIONS7
AUTHOR COUNT1
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
H-INDEX1
  • Measles, Hmong, and Metaphor: Culture Change and Illness Management under Conditions of Immigration

    Open Access•Rebecca R Henry•ARTICLE•Medical Anthropology Quarterly•1999•Cited by: 7•References: 12

    When 19 Hmong families and three healers in St. Paul, Minnesota, were interviewed regarding their understanding of measles and the ways in which they cared for children with the disease, their responses spanned the range between Hmong animistic cosmology and Western theories of disease. The metaphors of growth that were used to describe the disease link language, cosmology, causation, body processes, and illness management practices. This study d…

  • Measles, Hmong, and Metaphor: Culture Change and Illness Management under Conditions of Immigration

    Open Access•Rebecca R Henry•ARTICLE•Medical Anthropology Quarterly•1999•Cited by: 7•References: 12

    When 19 Hmong families and three healers in St. Paul, Minnesota, were interviewed regarding their understanding of measles and the ways in which they cared for children with the disease, their responses spanned the range between Hmong animistic cosmology and Western theories of disease. The metaphors of growth that were used to describe the disease link language, cosmology, causation, body processes, and illness management practices. This study d…

  • Measles, Hmong, and Metaphor: Culture Change and Illness Management under Conditions of Immigration

    Open Access•Rebecca R Henry•ARTICLE•Medical Anthropology Quarterly•1999•Cited by: 7•References: 12

    When 19 Hmong families and three healers in St. Paul, Minnesota, were interviewed regarding their understanding of measles and the ways in which they cared for children with the disease, their responses spanned the range between Hmong animistic cosmology and Western theories of disease. The metaphors of growth that were used to describe the disease link language, cosmology, causation, body processes, and illness management practices. This study d…

Culture change (1 works) · Immigration (1 works) · Law (1 works) · Law (1 works) · Measles (1 works) · Medicine (1 works) · Metaphor (1 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (1 works) · Migration, Identity, and Health (1 works) · Philosophy (1 works)

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