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Margaret Lock
Researcher at McGill University
Publications - 139
Citations - 11155
Margaret Lock is an academic researcher from McGill University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Transplantation. The author has an hindex of 47, co-authored 139 publications receiving 10604 citations. Previous affiliations of Margaret Lock include Illinois Institute of Technology.
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Living Cadavers and the Calculation of Death
TL;DR: This article, drawing primarily on ethnographic data collected in intensive care units, examines why procurement of organs from brain-dead bodies has been fully institutionalized in North America for more than two decades, in contrast to Japan.
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Dementia Entanglements in a Postgenomic Era
TL;DR: Using Alzheimer’s disease as an illustrative example, it is shown how population databases of AD cases on which individual risk estimates are based are faulty due to confusion about the AD phenotype.
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DSM-III as a culture-bound construct: Commentary on culture-bound syndromes and international disease classifications
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Popular Conceptions of Mental Health in Japan
TL;DR: Some of the traditional beliefs and medical practices used in East Asian medical systems are examined and their implications for clinical care and the question of the incorporation of traditional medical systems into the official health care systems of large urbanized societies in general is assessed.