Sjaak van der Geest
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SJAAK VAN DER GEEST is Professor Emeritus of Medical Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and visiting professor at BRAC University in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has done fieldwork in Ghana and Cameroon on a variety of subjects including sexual relationships and birthcontrol, the use and distribution of medicines, popular song texts, meanings of growing old, and concepts of dirt and defecation. He is founder and editor-in-chief of the journal Medische Antropologie and assistant editor of several other journals in the field of medical anthroplogy.
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PhD Supervision
1987-1990 Self medication in two Philippino urban communities (Anita P. Hardon).
1988 Nutrition rehabilitation in the Southwestern highlands of Tanzania: A two-way learning proces (Mariette Wiebenga)
1988-1992 Health centre nurses in rural central Java (Rosalina Sciortino) 1988-1993 Health, pregnancy and child care in Dominica (Anja Krumeich). 1988-1996 Medische pluraliteit en epilepsy in Swaziland (Ria Reis). 1990-1996 Medicines in a Ghanaian community: perceptions and practices (Kodjo A. Senah). 1991-1996 Pharmaceuticals in the Philippines: cultural, historical and political perspectives (Michael L. Tan). 1993-1997 Child care and child morbidity in Northeast Brazil (Marijke Stegeman). 1995-2004 Ayurvedic and Unani medicines in India (Maarten Bode). 1996-2001 Medical decisions in a neonatology ward (Eric Vermeulen). 1996-2000 Insecticide-treated bednets and malaria control in Kenya (Jane A. Alaii). 1996-2000 Folk beliefs and Islamic therapies in The Netherlands (Cor Hoffer). 1997-2003 Waste management and decentralisation in Accra, Ghana (Nelson Obirih-Opareh). 1997-2003 Successful ageing in the Netherlands (Margaret von Faber). 1998-2005 Women and multiple partner sex in Malawi (Francine van den Borne). 1998-2003 Female community health workers in Yemen (Marina de Regt). 1999-2003 Health insurance in Ghana (Daniel K. Arhinful). 1999-2003 The culture of a hospital in Bangladesh (Shahaduz Zaman). 1999-2003 Induced abortion among young women in Yoruba society, Nigeria (Winny Koster) 1999-2004 Women and violence at home and at work in a Javanese plantation (Anna-Marie Wattie) 2000-2005 Sex and AIDS among young men in Dessie, Ethiopia (Getnet Tadele) 2002-2008 Research, intervention and policy on HIV/AIDSin Uganda (John Kinsman) 2003-2007 Childless women in Bangladesh (Papreen Nahar) 2004-2009 Children, sex and agency in Tanzania (Miranda van Reeuwijk) 2004-2009 Coping with cancer: hospital ethnography in Kenya (Benson Mulemi) 2004-2009 Nurses in a Ghanaian hospital (Christine Böhmig) 2005-2007 Navolging, rivaliteit en zondebokmechanisme in het werk van W.F. Hermans (Sonja Pos) 2006 Voluntary testing, counselling and antiretrovirals in two Ghanaian hospitals (Jonathan M. Dapaah) 2006 Voluntary testing, counselling and antiretrovirals in two Ghanaian communities (Benjamin Kwansa) 2007 Agriculture and resistance to HIV/AIDS amongwomen in Malawi (Janneke Verheijen) 2007 Older people and care for orphans and vulnerable children in Zambia (Daniel Reijer) 2007 Decision-making and communication in palliative care of cancer patients with a Turkish or Moroccan background (Fuusje de Graaff) 2008 Reaching the poor in Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (Agnes M. Kotoh) 2008 Social and cultural factors in the perception and treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Suriname (Sahienshadebie Ramdas) 2008-2010 Perceptions and responses to health impacts of energy acquisition and use in rural South Africa (Margaret N. Matinga)