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Dr Moreno Cañas: A symbolic bridge to the demedicalization of healing
No full textCosta Rica is a rapidly developing country with an expanding system of nationalized health care and a growing professional medical sector. This expansion affects the medicalization of health culture, including the symbolic and religious aspects of popular healing traditions. This study describes the myth and cult of Dr Moreno Cañas, a physician murdered in 1938, who is prayed to, or ritually invoked for cures and good fortune. The cult of Dr Moreno Cañas complements and modifies the healing role of the Costa Rican patron saint, the Virgen de Los Angeles, by idealizing modern science and technology. The cult of the doctor is a reaction of laypeople to the secularization of health problems, and to the medicalization of care. The myth and cult of Dr Moreno Cañas creates a popular image of secular medicine that laypeople sacrilize by treating it in a religious manner, and in doing so demedicalize control of their own care.
Behind the gates life, security, and the pursuit of happiness in fortress America
No full text"Gated communities are the fastest growing form of housing in the United States. In the last twenty years, thousands upon thousands of upper- and middle-class Americans have retreated into these exclusive neighborhoods. What has sparked this alarming trend?" "Behind the Gates is an account of what life is like in these suburban fortresses." "In this account, Setha Low probes the hopes, dreams, and fears of gated community residents to uncover how the rapid growth of fortress neighborhoods is effecting subtle transformations in American middle-class values."--BOOK JACKET
Culturally interpreted symptoms or culture-bound syndromes: A cross-cultural review of nerves
No full textThis paper explores a new approach to culture-specific mental disorders through cross-cultural examination of nerves. A number of case studies are presented from contrasting cultures. It is proposed that nerves be considered a culturally interpreted symptom rather than being culture-bound.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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