Elizabeth M Coker
Biographic Data
| ID | 658904 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth M Coker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth M |
| FAMILY NAME | Coker |
| SIGNATURE | COKER E M |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University in Cairo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Claiming the Public Soul
Egyptian society is engaged in a culture-wide debate over definitions of abnormality, local constructions of which are rooted in ideas about the body and the soul in relation to society as a whole. This is reflected in the continuing recourse to religious healers or texts, as well as in heated debates over the moral, social, religious and legal status of religious healers, in particular the relatively recent and more orthodox "Qur'anic healers." …
Selfhood and social distance
The construction of religious and cultural meaning in Egyptian psychiatric patient charts
This paper explores the use of religious symbols and metaphors in Egyptian psychiatric inpatient charts to portray psychiatric pathology and, by extension, the role that religious symbols play in constructing psychiatric illnesses. This represents a deconstruction of patient charts, assuming that the psychiatrist chooses aspects of family and patient discourse which best represent unexamined cultural ideas of person and illness, normality and abn…
Dislocated Identity and the Fragmented Body
Themes of social and cultural breakdown permeate the narratives of southern Sudanese refugees in Cairo, as they wait for their fate to be decided by factors outside their control. This ‘fragmentation’ of the self is expressed most vividly in pervasive legends and rumours about the perceived threat to the integrity of the Sudanese body posed by medical professionals. This paper will explore the embodiment of cultural identity threats by examining …
Narrative strategies in medical discourse
Selfhood and social distance
Dislocated Identity and the Fragmented Body
Themes of social and cultural breakdown permeate the narratives of southern Sudanese refugees in Cairo, as they wait for their fate to be decided by factors outside their control. This ‘fragmentation’ of the self is expressed most vividly in pervasive legends and rumours about the perceived threat to the integrity of the Sudanese body posed by medical professionals. This paper will explore the embodiment of cultural identity threats by examining …
Narrative strategies in medical discourse
Narrative strategies in medical discourse
The construction of religious and cultural meaning in Egyptian psychiatric patient charts
This paper explores the use of religious symbols and metaphors in Egyptian psychiatric inpatient charts to portray psychiatric pathology and, by extension, the role that religious symbols play in constructing psychiatric illnesses. This represents a deconstruction of patient charts, assuming that the psychiatrist chooses aspects of family and patient discourse which best represent unexamined cultural ideas of person and illness, normality and abn…
Dislocated Identity and the Fragmented Body
Themes of social and cultural breakdown permeate the narratives of southern Sudanese refugees in Cairo, as they wait for their fate to be decided by factors outside their control. This ‘fragmentation’ of the self is expressed most vividly in pervasive legends and rumours about the perceived threat to the integrity of the Sudanese body posed by medical professionals. This paper will explore the embodiment of cultural identity threats by examining …
Selfhood and social distance
Claiming the Public Soul
Egyptian society is engaged in a culture-wide debate over definitions of abnormality, local constructions of which are rooted in ideas about the body and the soul in relation to society as a whole. This is reflected in the continuing recourse to religious healers or texts, as well as in heated debates over the moral, social, religious and legal status of religious healers, in particular the relatively recent and more orthodox "Qur'anic healers." …
Sociology (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (2 works) · Mental Health Treatment and Access (2 works)