• "All they want is to be treated well": Public health care in the rural Ecuadorian Andes 

      Rokne, Veronika (Master thesis, 2014-06-19)
      Abstract In thesis I describe the meeting between biomedical health care and indigenous patients in rural Ecuadorian Andes. I show how biomedical conceptualization of health and good treatment differs from local understandings. ...
    • Spa Pilgrimage 

      Prestegård, Ingvild S (Master thesis, 2013-05-25)
      This Master project is about different understandings of health and illness. Fieldwork was conducted at a holistic spa in Thailand, where the spa clientele was primarily women from Western countries. Several of the women ...