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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, hygiene 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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