IntroductionWilliam C. Olsen and Carolyn SargentPart I Global Medicines in Local Cultures1 Global Health Goals and Local Constraints in a Rural Peruvian ClinicMorgan K. Hoke, Samya R. Stumo, and Thomas L. Leatherman2 Science and Sanctity: Biomedicine and Christianity at an Ethiopian HospitalAnita Hannig3 The Cosmopolitan HospitalCheryl Mattingly4 “Dangerous Disease”: Epilepsy in AsanteWilliam C. Olsen5 The Salience of the State in Biomedicine: Congo and Uganda Cases ComparedJohn M. JanzenPart II Care Giving and Hospital Labor6 Creating a Therapeutic Community: Lessons from Allada Hospital BeninMark Nichter, Ghislain Emmanuel Sopoh, and Roch Christian Johnson7 Medical “Errands” among Women with Cervical Cancer in GuatemalaAnita Chary and Peter Rohloff8 Routinized Caring or a “Call” to Nursing: Shifts in Hospital Nursing in Rukwa, TanzaniaAdrienne E. Strong9 “We Work with What We Have, Not with What We Would Like to Have”: Hospital Care in MexicoVania Smith-Oka and Kayla J. HurdPart III Hospitals and the Patient10 The Navigation of Public Hospitals by West African Immigrants with Cancer in Paris, FranceCarolyn Sargent11 Each Child Is Unique: The Responsible U.S. Parent’s Take on Hospital Care Gone WrongElisa J. Sobo12 Making Ethnographic Sense of Cesarean Rates in Greek Public HospitalsEugenia Georges13 The Nightside of Medicine: Obstetric Suffering and Ethnographic Witnessing in a Pakistani HospitalEmma VarleyAfterwordClaire WendlandReferencesNotes on ContributorsIndex