Sjaak van der Geest

University of Amsterdam, Culturele Antropologie, Emeritus

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Sjaak van der Geest is Emeritus Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He conducted fieldwork in Ghana and Cameroon and published books and articles on marriage and kinship, perceptions and practices concerning birth control, witchcraft beliefs, anthropological field research, Ghanaian Highlife songs, missionaries and anthropologists, anthropology of the night, and various topics in medical anthropology, in particular the cultural context of pharmaceuticals in non-Western communities, hospital ethnography, perceptions of sanitation and waste management, and social and cultural meanings of care and old age in Ghana. Personal website: www.sjaakvandergeest.nl

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2014 (editor with Trudie Gerrits & Julia Challinor) Medical anthropology: Essays and reflections from an Amsterdam graduate programme. Diemen: AMB Publishers

2010 (with Fuusje de Graaff, Anneke L. Francke & Maria E.T.C. van den Muijsenbergh) Communicatie en besluitvorming in de palliatieve zorg voor Turkse en Marokkaanse patiënen met kanker. Amsterdam, Spinhuis, UvA.

Fuusje M. de Graaff (UvA en MUTANT) Anneke L. Francke (NIVEL en EMGO+/VUmc) Maria E.T.C. van den ... more Fuusje M. de Graaff (UvA en MUTANT) Anneke L. Francke (NIVEL en EMGO+/VUmc) Maria E.T.C. van den Muijsenbergh (Pharos en UMC-st Radboud) Sjaak van de Geest (UvA) Communicatie en besluitvorming in de palliatieve zorg voor Turkse en Marokkaanse patiënten met kanker is een uitgave van UvA, Spinhuis, 2010, Amsterdam.

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2010 (editor with Rebekah Park) Doing and living medical anthropology: Personal reflections. Diemen: AMB.

2009 (editor with Marian Tankink) Theory and action. Essays for an anthropologist. Diemen: Uitgeverij AMB

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2008 (editor with Nasima Selin & Shahaduz Zaman) Daily health concerns in Kakabo,: Anthropological explorations in a Bangladeshi village. Dhaka: BRAC University, a James P. Grant School of Public Health Publication. Monograph Series 9

Daily health concerns in Kakabo: Anthropological explorations in a Bangladeshi village is a colle... more Daily health concerns in Kakabo: Anthropological explorations in a Bangladeshi village is a collection of essays written by students of BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health in 2005, 2006 and 2007. These essays are the results of exploratory studies conducted in a village named Kakabo, about twenty-five kilometres from Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. The students came from varied backgrounds and different countries in Asia, Africa, North and South America.

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2008 (editor with Ermute Alber & Susan R. Whyte) Generations in Africa: Connections and conflicts. Münster: Lit-Verlag

2005 (with P. Atuobi & A. Obeng Boamah) Life, love and death: Conversations with six elders in Kwahu-Tafo, Ghana. Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis

2004 (with N. Obirih-Opareh et al.) The effects of decentralisation and privatisation on urban environmental management: Waste management in the Accra Metropolitan Area. The Hague: NUFFIC, NIRP Research for Policy Series, Part 22

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2002 (with S.R. Whyte & A. Hardon) Social lives of medicines. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

2002 (editor with R. Reis) Ethnocentrism: Reflections on medical anthropology. Amsterdam: Aksant

2001 (with A. Hardon et al.) Applied health research manual: Anthropology of health and health care. Amsterdam: Aksant, 2nd revised edition

2001 (editor with N. Obirih-Opareh) Toilets and sanitation in Ghana: An urgent matter. Accra: Institute of Scientific and Technological Information (INSTI), CSIR

1999 (with J. Kamwanga & M. Macwan’gi) Health reforms and the quality of health care in Zambia. Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis

1998 (editor with A. Rienks) The art of medical anthropology: Readings. Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis

1995 (red) Ambivalentie / ambiguïteit. Antropologische notities. Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis.

1995 "Hoe gaat ‘t?" Vijf opmerkingen over medische antropologie en etnocentrisme. Inaugurale rede. Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis

1994 (with A. Hardon et al.) Applied health research manual: Anthropology of health and health care. Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis

1994 (editor with P. ten Have, G. Nijhof & P. Verbeek-Heida) De macht der dingen: Medische technologie in cultureel perspectief. Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis.

1988 (editor with S.R. Whyte) The context of medicines in developing countries: studies in pharmaceutical anthropology. Dordrecht: Kluwer

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