The Medical Anthropologist as the Patient: Developing Research Questions on Hospital Food in Japan through Auto-Ethnography
I was an inpatient at a small maternity clinic in Japan in 2012–13 and found it impossible to separate the way I experienced medical care and my training as a medical anthropologist. As I was encouraged to eat and monitor my weight so that I would “grow” a healthy baby, I recalled how interviewees f...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2016-03-01
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| Series: | The ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts |
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| Online Access: | http://www.asianetworkexchange.org/articles/161 |