{"product_id":"the-moral-discourse-of-health-in-modern-cairo-9780739179796","title":"The Moral Discourse of Health in Modern Cairo","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMohammed Tabishat has made a valuable contribution to our understanding of the everyday health problems of the poorer classes in Cairo. Most interesting is his account of the Islamic concept of al-nafs that people employ to address—as a single field of dis-ease—what biomedicine identifies as either ‘physical’ or ‘psychological’ illness and as its social, political, and economic causes. Strongly recommended. -- Talal Asad, Emeritus Distinguished Professor, Graduate Center of the City University of New York\u003cbr\u003eA rich ethnographic account of illness and health in contemporary Cairo. Written with great insight and sensitivity, Tabishat examines how the vocabularies of sickness and well-being reflect an evolving fusion of Islamic concepts of moral and physical health with the perspectives and practices of modern bio-medicine. His work provides a poignant reminder that the health of the body is as much a moral and political-economic condition as it is a physical and physiological one. A major contribution to the medical anthropology of the Middle East. -- Charles Hirschkind, University of California, Berkeley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of tables and figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Society in Medicine and Health  Chapter One: Health of “Modern” Life: Examples from self-guides Chapter Two: Family Life, Health, and Illness in Būlāq Abul‘ela Chapter Three:‘Iḍḍaghṭ: Biomedicine for Social Critique Chapter Four: Society in Life and Death Chapter Five: Ethnography as Cultural Critique  Index About the Author","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037524853079,"sku":"9780739179796","price":82.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780739179796.jpg?v=1750936095","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-moral-discourse-of-health-in-modern-cairo-9780739179796","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}