Patients and Agents

Patients and AgentsSylhet, the area of Bangladesh most closely associated with overseas migration, has seen an increase in remittances sent home from abroad, introducing new inequalities. Social change has also been mediated by the global forces of Western biomedicine and orthodox Islam. This book examines the effects of these modernizing trends on mental health and on local, traditional healing as the new inequalities have exacerbated existing social tensions and led

and a few fragmentary essays unpublished during his lifetime

he fled his village for Beirut and

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African Americans

Goodstadt’s riveting investigations include extensive scandals in the post-secondary education sector and how lives are at risk because of the inadequate staff levels and limited funding allocated to key government departments

and cultural significance of murals—whether in cottages or palaces—and the challenges of preserving them

Arab storytelling

which animates and informs their lives and leadership experiences

exploring her journey from ingénue to UNICEF ambassador

Inspired by the author’s experience living among Chinese Americans in the United States

Gerald Porter

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