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Acupuncture and the techno-politics of bodyscape
Wen-Hua Kuo

–121 . Kuriyama , Shigehisa ( 1999 ) The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine . New York : Zone books . Laqueur , Thomas ( 1992 ) Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Latour , Bruno ( 1986 ) ‘ Visualisation and cognition: drawing things together ’, in special issue

in Global health and the new world order
From colonial to cross-cultural psychiatry in Nigeria
Matthew M. Heaton

intrusive to work on African populations – which so many colonial officials had argued before him – Lambo went about actively trying to integrate ‘modern’ psychiatry with local cultural modalities. Indeed, Lambo's convictions about the importance of cultural sensitivity in psychiatric practice were so strong that he declared not Freud, Jung or Kraepelin, but the anthropologist Margaret Mead as the intellectual model for his pursuits (Sadowsky, 1999 : 42 n.90). In emphasizing the importance of culture not only in presentation but also in treatment of mental illness

in Global health and the new world order