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World-View Conflict and Toddler Malnutrition: Change Agent Dilemmas

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The child lay against her mother’s breast. Sometimes she whined, mostly she was quiet. Her eyes were slightly sunken, her skin was hot and dry. The day before, the mother had withdrawn food to help control her diarrhea. Several hours before, the mother had withdrawn fluids to prevent the feverish child from suffering chills. The fieldworker said, “She must have aspirin and water.” The mother worried, “No, it will make her cold.” But the fieldworker prevailed; the child gulped two cups of water and some aspirin. Soon she began to shake, to drip. Her fever broke and she slept.

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Cassidy, C.M. (1987). World-View Conflict and Toddler Malnutrition: Change Agent Dilemmas. In: Scheper-Hughes, N. (eds) Child Survival. Culture, Illness and Healing, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3393-4_15

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