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Care-Takers of Cure: An Anthropological Study of Health Centre Nurses in Rural Central Java

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This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the Indonesian health bureaucracy and its personnel, by way of a detailed description of health centre nursing in Central Java. It is an important ethnographic contribution to the literature on medical anthropology in developing countries. More specifically, the book fills a gap in the literature on nursing and the state health care system in Indonesia.

Sciortino, an anthropologist, sets out carefully her reasons for choosing the nursing profession as an area of study. Using multilevel of linkages perspective she examines the conceptualization and policy of nursing at the national level and traces how this policy is implemented and conceptualized through the provincial and district levels to the actual nursing practice in sub-district, local health centres. Sciortino brilliantly draws out the complexity of discourses enmeshed in a multilayered health systems. Policy and principles, implementation and practice, belong to different social spheres; the official, bureaucratic view is far removed from the actual practice in everyday activities.

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Series Title

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Call Number

362.1 Sci c

Publisher

Yogyakarta : Gadjah Mada University Press., 1995

Collation

xvi + 370 pp.; ill.; 14 x 21 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

979-420-354-8

Classification

362.1

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Edition

Second Edition

Subject(s)

Jawa
Antropology
health

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Statement of Responsibility

Rosalia Sciortino

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