Carol P Maccormack
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603632 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carol P Maccormack |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carol P |
| FAMILY NAME | Maccormack |
| SIGNATURE | MACCORMACK C P |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 107 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Birth in Four Cultures: A Cross‐Cultural Investigation of Childbirth in Yucatan, Holland, Sweden, and the United States . 44th ed. Brigitte Jordan (revised and expanded by Robbie Davis‐Floyd)
Maternal Health, War, and Religious Tradition: Authoritative Knowledge in Pujehun District, Sierra Leone
In Sierra Leone constraints to ideal maternal health require a primary health care approach that includes collaboration with traditional midwives. They are authoritative figures embedded within local political structures and a powerful women's religion. The local causes of maternal risk are described, including civil war and refugee camp life. Traditional midwives provide vital services in the camp, are respected for their social status, and lear…
Th International Social Science and Medicine Conference
Ethnological studies of medical sciences
Hospice and the holistic alternative
Anthropology and primary health care
Aging and Menopause Among Indian South African Women
Civilized Women: Gender and Prestige in Southeastern Liberia. Mary H. Moran
Planning and evaluating women's participation in primary health care
Beyond the Second Sex: New Directions in the Anthropology of Gender. Peggy Reeves Sanday , Ruth Gallagher Goodenough
Holistic Health and a Changing Western World View
When one listens to the messages of the holistic health, ecology, peace, feminist and creation spirituality movements one becomes aware of a congruence. Being within these movements as a participant observer, or reading a great cross-section of popular magazines from these movements, one realizes there is a great deal of overlap; they are all saying the same things. If we take as a speculative thesis that European society may be reaching the limi…
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Births and Power: Social Change and the Politics of Reproduction . W. Penn Handwerker , ed
New Approaches to Human Reproduction: Social and Ethical Dimensions . Linda Whiteford and Marilyn L. Poland , eds
Women's Power and Social Revolution: Fertility Transition in the West Indies
Labour Pains and Labour Power: Women and Childbearing in India
Status and the training of traditional midwives
Health and the social power of women
Social organization and political factionalism: PHC in The Gambia
In this investigation of management at the peripheral level, multiple interviews were conducted by a team of five people in 14% of the primary health care villages in The Gambia. The investigators sought to understand principles of village social organization and the process of political factionalism that sometimes disrupts health programmes. A methodology was developed for investigating the structure and function of communities, for use in the h…
Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective
Anthropology and the Control of Tropical Disease
32. There are at present in India two organizations campaigning openly for turning India into a Hindu state: the Hindu Mahasabha and the Rashtriya Sewa Sangha. A third organization, the Bharatiya Jana Sangha, militates in fact for the same purpose, though this aim is not explicitly written in its statutes; its members have been prominent in recent antiMuslim riots. Cf., as an illustration of the inspiration of these organizations, a few sentences…
Illness and Healing Among the Sakhalin Ainu
Female and Male in West Africa
Patterns and Perceptions of Menstruation
Primary health care in Sierra Leone
The Cultural Context of Therapeutic Choice: Obstetrical Care Decisions Among the Bariba of Benin
1: Introduction.- 1.1. The Study.- 1.2. The Setting.- 1.3. Methodology.- 1.4. Theoretical Perspectives on Health Care Decisions.- 2: The Cultural Context of Therapeutic Choice.- 2.1. Bariba Conceptions of the Order of the Universe.- 2.2. Diagnosis and Treatment.- 2.3. Divination.- 2.4. The Use of Substances.- 2.5. Medicines.- 3: Beliefs and Practices Surrounding Reproductive Processes.- 3.1. Menstruation and Clitoridectomy.- 3.2. Conception.- 3.3…
Health and the social power of women
Ethnography of Fertility and Birth
Planning and evaluating women's participation in primary health care
Ethnography of Fertility and Birth
Illness and Healing Among the Sakhalin Ainu
Primary health care in Sierra Leone
Social organization and political factionalism: PHC in The Gambia
In this investigation of management at the peripheral level, multiple interviews were conducted by a team of five people in 14% of the primary health care villages in The Gambia. The investigators sought to understand principles of village social organization and the process of political factionalism that sometimes disrupts health programmes. A methodology was developed for investigating the structure and function of communities, for use in the h…
Maternal Health, War, and Religious Tradition: Authoritative Knowledge in Pujehun District, Sierra Leone
In Sierra Leone constraints to ideal maternal health require a primary health care approach that includes collaboration with traditional midwives. They are authoritative figures embedded within local political structures and a powerful women's religion. The local causes of maternal risk are described, including civil war and refugee camp life. Traditional midwives provide vital services in the camp, are respected for their social status, and lear…
Aging and Menopause Among Indian South African Women
Birth in Four Cultures: A Cross‐Cultural Investigation of Childbirth in Yucatan, Holland, Sweden, and the United States . 44th ed. Brigitte Jordan (revised and expanded by Robbie Davis‐Floyd)
Status and the training of traditional midwives
Female and Male in West Africa
The Cultural Context of Therapeutic Choice: Obstetrical Care Decisions Among the Bariba of Benin
1: Introduction.- 1.1. The Study.- 1.2. The Setting.- 1.3. Methodology.- 1.4. Theoretical Perspectives on Health Care Decisions.- 2: The Cultural Context of Therapeutic Choice.- 2.1. Bariba Conceptions of the Order of the Universe.- 2.2. Diagnosis and Treatment.- 2.3. Divination.- 2.4. The Use of Substances.- 2.5. Medicines.- 3: Beliefs and Practices Surrounding Reproductive Processes.- 3.1. Menstruation and Clitoridectomy.- 3.2. Conception.- 3.3…
Biological Events and Cultural Control
Ethnological studies of medical sciences
Anthropology and primary health care
Health care and the concept of legitimacy
Biological Events and Cultural Control
Medical anthropology/African Therapeutic Systems/The Promotion and Development of Traditional Medicine (Book)
Health care and the concept of legitimacy
Nature, Culture and Gender
List of plates Preface 1. Nature, culture and gender: a critique Carol P. MacCormack 2. Women and the dialectics of nature in eighteenth-century French thought Maurice Bloch and Jean H. Bloch 3. Natural facts: a historical perspective on science and sexuality L. J. Jordanova 4. The power of signs: gender, culture and the wild in the Bolivian Andes Olivia Harris 5. Proto-social to adult: a Sherbro transformation Carol P. MacCormack 6. Gender, sexu…
Reports of Meetings
Day of Shining Red: An Essay on Understanding Ritual
Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective (Book)
Ethnography of Fertility and Birth
The Ethnography of Fertility and Birth
Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia (Book)
Primary health care in Sierra Leone
The Cultural Context of Therapeutic Choice: Obstetrical Care Decisions Among the Bariba of Benin
1: Introduction.- 1.1. The Study.- 1.2. The Setting.- 1.3. Methodology.- 1.4. Theoretical Perspectives on Health Care Decisions.- 2: The Cultural Context of Therapeutic Choice.- 2.1. Bariba Conceptions of the Order of the Universe.- 2.2. Diagnosis and Treatment.- 2.3. Divination.- 2.4. The Use of Substances.- 2.5. Medicines.- 3: Beliefs and Practices Surrounding Reproductive Processes.- 3.1. Menstruation and Clitoridectomy.- 3.2. Conception.- 3.3…
Ethnography of Fertility and Birth
Anthropology and the Control of Tropical Disease
32. There are at present in India two organizations campaigning openly for turning India into a Hindu state: the Hindu Mahasabha and the Rashtriya Sewa Sangha. A third organization, the Bharatiya Jana Sangha, militates in fact for the same purpose, though this aim is not explicitly written in its statutes; its members have been prominent in recent antiMuslim riots. Cf., as an illustration of the inspiration of these organizations, a few sentences…
Illness and Healing Among the Sakhalin Ainu
Female and Male in West Africa
Patterns and Perceptions of Menstruation
Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective
Social organization and political factionalism: PHC in The Gambia
In this investigation of management at the peripheral level, multiple interviews were conducted by a team of five people in 14% of the primary health care villages in The Gambia. The investigators sought to understand principles of village social organization and the process of political factionalism that sometimes disrupts health programmes. A methodology was developed for investigating the structure and function of communities, for use in the h…
Health and the social power of women
Status and the training of traditional midwives
New Approaches to Human Reproduction: Social and Ethical Dimensions . Linda Whiteford and Marilyn L. Poland , eds
Women's Power and Social Revolution: Fertility Transition in the West Indies
Labour Pains and Labour Power: Women and Childbearing in India
Holistic Health and a Changing Western World View
When one listens to the messages of the holistic health, ecology, peace, feminist and creation spirituality movements one becomes aware of a congruence. Being within these movements as a participant observer, or reading a great cross-section of popular magazines from these movements, one realizes there is a great deal of overlap; they are all saying the same things. If we take as a speculative thesis that European society may be reaching the limi…
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