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Carolyn Sargent's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Carolyn Sargent is a medical anthropologist. She focuses on gender studies and health issues, with interests in reproductive health, managing the health of women in low-income families, and decision making in the medical field. She has done fieldwork in West Africa, Benin, Jamaica and France where she worked on reproductive health, midwifery, prenatal care and migrant fertility patterns.

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Carolyn Sargent's Published Works

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Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (1997) (288)
Small wars : the cultural politics of childhood (2001) (231)
Medical Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Method (1996) (166)
Ways of knowing about birth in three cultures. (1996) (94)
Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective (2000) (91)
Reflections of a woman anthropologist : no hiding place (1983) (74)
Transnational Migration and Global Health: The Production and Management of Risk, Illness, and Access to Care* (2011) (72)
Medical Anthropology: A Handbook of Theory and Method (1990) (63)
Gender and Health: An International Perspective (1995) (48)
Polygamy, disrupted reproduction, and the state: Malian migrants in Paris, France. (2003) (47)
Reproductive Strategies and Islamic Discourse (2006) (46)
Childbirth Education and Childbirth Models: Parental Perspectives on Control, Anesthesia, and Technological Intervention in the Birth Process (1989) (45)
Liminal Lives (2006) (44)
Maternity, Medicine and Power: Reproductive Decisions in Urban Benin (1989) (43)
Special issue part I: 'Deservingness' and the politics of health care. (2012) (41)
The Construction of “Cultural Difference” and Its Therapeutic Significance in Immigrant Mental Health Services in France (2009) (41)
Between death and shame: dimensions of pain in Bariba culture. (1984) (41)
The social production of authoritative knowledge in pregnancy and childbirth. (1996) (40)
Gender ideology childrearing and child health in Jamaica. (1992) (36)
The Cultural Context of Therapeutic Choice: Obstetrical Care Decisions Among the Bariba of Benin (1982) (30)
Surgical birth: interpretations of cesarean delivery among private hospital patients and nursing staff. (1987) (29)
From clay to metal: culture change and container usage among the Bariba of northern Bénin, West Africa (1986) (26)
Handbook of medical anthropology : contemporary theory and method (1996) (22)
The Muslim Body and the Politics of Immigration in France: Popular and Biomedical Representations of Malian Migrant Women (2007) (21)
Migration, Identity, and Citizenship (2006) (21)
Counseling Contraception for Malian Migrants in Paris: Global, State, and Personal Politics (2005) (21)
Born to Die: Witchcraft and Infanticide in Bariba Culture (1988) (21)
Factors Influencing Prenatal Care among Low-income Jamaican Women (1991) (20)
Part 5: Tiger Bones, fire and wine: Maternity care in a Kampuchean refugee community (1983) (19)
The Cultural Context of Therapeutic Choice (1982) (18)
Obstetrical choice among urban women in Benin. (1985) (18)
ASPECTS OF KHMER MEDICINE AMONG REFUGEES IN URBAN AMERICA (1984) (17)
Questioning Our Principles: Anthropological Contributions to Ethical Dilemmas in Clinical Practice (2006) (17)
Introduction to medical anthropology in the Muslim world. (2006) (17)
Introduction: Toward Global Anthropological Studies of Reproduction: Concepts, Methods, Theoretical Approaches (2011) (15)
Managing Reproductive Life: Cross-Cultural Themes in Fertility and Sexuality:Managing Reproductive Life: Cross-Cultural Themes in Fertility and Sexuality. (2003) (14)
Transformations in maternity services in Jamaica. (1992) (13)
Reproductive strategies and Islamic discourse: Malian migrants negotiate everyday life in Paris, France. (2006) (13)
Gender, Body, Meaning: Anthropological Perspectives on Self-Injury and Borderline Personality Disorder (2003) (13)
Confronting Patriarchy: The Potential for Advocacy in Medical Anthropology (1991) (12)
President, Society for Medical Anthropology speaking to the national health crisis: voices from medical anthropology. (2009) (12)
African Medical Pluralism (2017) (12)
Patient and physician explanatory models for acute bronchitis. (2002) (9)
Problematizing Polygamy, Managing Maternity: The Intersections of Global, State, and Family Politics in the Lives of West African Migrant Women in France (2011) (9)
Situating Birth in the Anthropology of Reproduction (2011) (9)
Parallel medical systems: papers from a workshop on "The Healing Process": introduction. (1979) (8)
Austerity and its implications for immigrant health in France. (2017) (6)
Causality and classification in African medicine and health. (1981) (5)
The implications of role expectations for birth assistance among Bariba women. (1982) (5)
Disease, Risk, and Contagion: French Colonial and Postcolonial Constructions of “African” Bodies (2014) (4)
Utilization of National Health Maternity Services in a Northern District of People's Republic of Benin (1980) (4)
Morgan Clarke, Islam and new kinship: reproductive technology and the shariah in Lebanon (2012) (4)
Managing Reproductive Life: Cross-Cultural Themes in Fertility and Sexuality (Book) (2003) (3)
Lamenting the winter of french fertility: Politics, power, and reproduction among Malian migrants in Paris (2006) (3)
Globalization Raises New Questions about the Politics of Reproduction (2005) (2)
Choosing Among Parallel Health Care Systems in a Bariba Community (1981) (2)
Caribbean transformations: Introduction (1992) (2)
Blending Western Biomedicine with Local Healing Practices. (2016) (2)
BOOKS RECEIVED (2012) (1)
The Meaning of Efficacy in Relation to Obstetrical Care Preferences (1982) (1)
Contraceptive secrets: body battles among North and West African migrants in Paris (2012) (1)
European States and their Muslim Citizens: Hospitals as Sites of Cultural Confrontation and Integration in France and Germany (2013) (1)
Prospects for the Professionalisation of Indigenous Midwifery in Benin (2018) (1)
African Therapeutic Systems. Z. A. Ademuwagun, et al., eds (1979) (1)
Gender, Health, and Illness: The Case of Nerves. DONA L. DAVIS and SETHA M. LOW, eds (1991) (0)
: Women's Medicine: A Cross-Cultural Study of Indigenous Fertility Regulation . Lucile F. Newman. (1986) (0)
Status Among the Bariba: The Roles and Responsibilities of Women (1982) (0)
The Politics of Birth: Cultural Dimensions of Pain, Virtue, and Control Among the Bariba of Benin (2019) (0)
Utilization of National Health Services for Maternity Care in the District of Kouande (1982) (0)
MIDWIFERY: A BIBLIOGRAPHY (1976) (0)
Yoruba Medicine. Anthony D. Buckley. (1987) (0)
Gender, reproduction, and health care: Comparative perspectives (1992) (0)
Beliefs and Practices Surrounding Reproductive Processes (1982) (0)
Interpreting the Cesarean Experience: Obstetrical Policy and Women's Responses to Technological Interventions in Childbirth (1986) (0)
Identities Among Malian Migrants in Paris Liminal Lives : Immigration Status , Gender , and the Construction of (2006) (0)
Concurrent Contents: Recent and Classic References at the Interface of Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology (2003) (0)
Maternity, Medicine, and Power (2023) (0)
4. Transnational Health- Care Circuits: Managing Therapy among Immigrants in France and Kinship Networks in West Africa (2019) (0)
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Muslim Hausa Women in Nigeria: Tradition and Change. Barbara J. Callaway. (1988) (0)
Islam, identity, and gender in daily life among Malians in Paris: The burdens are easier to bear (2005) (0)
Sickness and Healing: An Anthropological Perspective (1997) (0)
Women's Power and Social Revolution: Fertility Transition in the West Indies. W. Penn Handwerker. (1990) (0)
Client-Practitioner Encounters (1982) (0)
Improvising Medicine. Julie Livingston, Durham: Duke University Press, 2012, 228 pp. (2016) (0)
Cultural Politics of Childhood (2020) (0)
Ways of Knowing about Birth in Three (2016) (0)
Morgan Clarke, Islam and new kinship: reproductive technology and the shariah in Lebanon (2010) (0)
Birth Assistance in the Rural Area: Patterns of Delivery Assistance (1982) (0)
Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction. Faye D. Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp, eds (1996) (0)
Wasted Wombs: Navigating Reproductive Interruptions in Cameroon by Erica van der Sijpt Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2018. 271 pp. (2019) (0)
Midwifery: a bibliography. selected literature on the utilization of indigenous midwives in health delivery systems. (1976) (0)
Reproduction and the state (2021) (0)
Ethnography and policy: Perspectives on reproduction in anthropology and public health (1985) (0)
ETHICS CASE Blending Western Biomedicine with Local Healing Practices (2016) (0)
Sociological and Career Attributes of Midwives (1982) (0)

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