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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 18 Volume 18 No.1 March 1994 RICHARD J. CASTILLO / Spirit Possession in South Asia, Dissociation or Hysteria? Part 1: Theoretical Background SHELLEY R. ADLER / Ethnomedical Pathogenesis and Hmong Im- migrants’ Sudden Nocturnal Deaths NDOLAMB NGOKWEY / The President’s Illness: Culture, Politics, and Fetishism in Benin KATHRYN OTHS / Communication in a Chiropractic Clinic: How a D.C. Treats His Patients Review Article Lorna A. Rhodes, EMPTYING BEDS: The Work of an Emergency Psychiatry Unit Atwood D. Gaines, ed., ETHNOPSYCHIATRY: The Cultural Construction of Professional and Folk Psychiatries Review by A. Jamie Saris Books Received Announcements Volume 18 No.2 June 1994 RICHARD J. CASTILLO / Spirit Possession in South Asia, Dissociation or Hysteria? Part 2: Case Histories SHERMAN A. JAMES / John Henryism and the Health of African- Americans LAURENCE J. KIRMAYER / Improvisation and Authority in Illness Meaning ROBYN KLIGER / Somatization: Social Control and Illness Production in a Religious Cult ANNEMARIE MOL and MARC BERG / Principles and Practices of Medicine: The Co-Existence of Various Anemias Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 18: 521-523, 1994. Books Received Announcement Volume 18 No.3 September 1994 SAM MIGLIORE / Gender, Emotion, and Physical Distress: The Sicilian- Canadian “Nerves” Complex SANDRA M. GIFFORD / The Change of Life, the Sorrow of Life: Menopause, Bad Blood and Cancer Among Italian-Australian Working Class Women KAVOUS G. BEHZADI / Interpersonal Conflict and Emotions in an Iranian Cultural Practice: Qahr and Ashti HAILI YOU / Defining Rhythm: Aspects of an Anthropology of Rhythm PETER CONRAD / Wellness as Virtue: Morality and the Pursuit of Health Books Received Volume 18 No.4 December 1994 HORACIO FABREGA, JR. and HUGO NUTINI / Tlaxcalan Construc- tions of Acute Grief SUSAN J. RASMUSSEN / Female Sexuality, Social Reproduction, and the Politics of Medical Intervention in Niger: Kel Ewey Tuareg Perspectives HAILI YOU / Rhythm in Chinese Thinking: A Short Question for a Long Tradition MAY P. M. TUNG / Symbolic Meanings of the Body in Chinese Culture and “Somatization” Review Articles Robert R. Desjarlais, Body and Emotion: The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas Review by Gregory Maskarinec Brigitte Jordan, Birth in Four Cultures: A Crosscultural Investiga- tion of Childbirth in Yucatan, Holland, Sweden, and the United States Robbie Davis-Floyd, Birth As an American Rite of Passage Jacques Gélis, History of Childbirth: Fertility, Pregnancy and Birth CONTENTS OF VOLUME 18 in Early Modern Europe Review by Cecilia van Hollen Books Received Erratum Announcements Volume Contents