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29 produkter
Tentative Pregnancy
How Amniocentesis Changes the Experience of Motherhood
Häftad, 1993
303 kr
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As more and more women are having children when they are over thirty, amniocentesis, is becoming a routine part of prenatal care. In this groundbreaking book, Barbara Katz Rothman shows how this simple procedure can alter the way we think about childbirth and parenthood, forcing us to confront …
Genetic Maps and Human Imaginations
The Limits of Science in Understanding Who We Are
Häftad, 1998
279 kr
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Scientists are racing to unravel the code of life in our DNA sequences. But once we know the code, will we know what life means? Will we know what to do with the powerful — healing, destructive, and marketable — information we will have?Barbara Katz Rothman's warm, learned, passionate, and humorous …
Laboring On
Birth in Transition in the United States
Av Wendy Simonds, Barbara Katz Rothman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
2744 kr
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Facing the polar forces of an epidemic of Cesarean sections and epidurals and home-like labor rooms, American birth is in transition. Caught between the most extreme medicalization — best seen in a Cesarean section rate of nearly 30 percent — and a rhetoric of women’s "choices" and "the natural," …
Laboring On
Birth in Transition in the United States
Av Wendy Simonds, Barbara Katz Rothman m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
691 kr
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Facing the polar forces of an epidemic of Cesarean sections and epidurals and home-like labor rooms, American birth is in transition. Caught between the most extreme medicalization — best seen in a Cesarean section rate of nearly 30 percent — and a rhetoric of women’s "choices" and "the natural," …
Bioethical Issues
Sociological Perspectives
Av Barbara Katz Rothman, Elizabeth M. Armstrong m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1252 kr
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This volume deals with the topic of health inequalities and health disparities. The volume is divided into five sections. The first section includes an introductory look at the issue of health care inequalities and disparities and also an introduction to the volume. One of the backdrops to this …
Book of Life
A Personal and Ethical Guide to Race, Normality and the Human Gene Study
Häftad, 2001
346 kr
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Weaving a Family
Untangling Race and Adoption
Av Barbara Katz Rothman, William Loren Katz
Häftad, 2006
361 kr
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Recreating Motherhood
Häftad, 2000
430 kr
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Selling “genetically gifted” human eggs on the free market for a hefty price. In vitro fertilization. Fetal rights. Prenatal diagnosis. Surrogacy. All are instances of biomedical and social “advancements” with which we have become familiar in recent years. Yet these issues are often regarded as …
Sociology of Diagnosis
Av PJ McGann, David Hutson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1722 kr
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Diagnosis is central to medical practice, medical knowledge and research, medicalization dynamics, and health and illness experience. Embedded in social relations, diagnoses reflect and shape social dynamics and cultural concerns. Diagnoses are integral to resource allocation, form the basis for …
Encyclopedia of Childbearing
Critical Perspectives
Av Carol Mann, Barbara Katz Rothman m. fl.
Inbunden, 1992
1098 kr
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Childbearing is more than pregnancy and labor. It is the having and not having of children. It is a profound event in the lives of families-and in the lives and bodies of women. The feminist movement and the development of feminist studies have helped to rehumanize the subject of childbearing by …
Routledge Companion to Gender and Reproduction
Av Barbara Katz Rothman, Elizabeth Newnham m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
3906 kr
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The Routledge Companion to Gender and Reproduction provides an in-depth approach to issues of gender and reproductive justice from a wide variety of countries and perspectives, with particular attention to the range of reproductive injustices that flow from racism and sexism. This collection …
Routledge Companion to Gender and Reproduction
Av Barbara Katz Rothman, Elizabeth Newnham m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
817 kr
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The Routledge Companion to Gender and Reproduction provides an in-depth approach to issues of gender and reproductive justice from a wide variety of countries and perspectives, with particular attention to the range of reproductive injustices that flow from racism and sexism. This collection …
Routledge Companion to Gender and Reproduction
Av Christie Sillo, Rodante van der Waal m. fl.
E-bok, 2025
981 kr
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The Routledge Companion to Gender and Reproduction provides an in-depth approach to issues of gender and reproductive justice from a wide variety of countries and perspectives, with particular attention to the range of reproductive injustices that flow from racism and sexism. This collection …
Routledge Companion to Gender and Reproduction
Av Christie Sillo, Rodante van der Waal m. fl.
E-bok, 2025
981 kr
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The Routledge Companion to Gender and Reproduction provides an in-depth approach to issues of gender and reproductive justice from a wide variety of countries and perspectives, with particular attention to the range of reproductive injustices that flow from racism and sexism. This collection …
Laboring On
Birth in Transition in the United States
Av Bari Meltzer Norman, Barbara Katz Rothman m. fl.
E-bok, 2013
838 kr
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Facing the polar forces of an epidemic of Cesarean sections and epidurals and home-like labor rooms, American birth is in transition. Caught between the most extreme medicalization — best seen in a Cesarean section rate of nearly 30 percent — and a rhetoric of women’s "choices" and "the …
Laboring On
Birth in Transition in the United States
Av Bari Meltzer Norman, Barbara Katz Rothman m. fl.
E-bok, 2013
820 kr
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Facing the polar forces of an epidemic of Cesarean sections and epidurals and home-like labor rooms, American birth is in transition. Caught between the most extreme medicalization — best seen in a Cesarean section rate of nearly 30 percent — and a rhetoric of women’s "choices" and "the …
Pregnancy and Birth
A Reference Handbook
Av Keisha L. Goode, Barbara Katz Rothman
Inbunden, 2021
711 kr
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"A thoughtful look at issues confronting pregnant Americans." – Library JournalPregnancy and Birth: A Reference Handbook provides students with information on how pregnancy and giving are transformative events at individual, family, and societal levels.This handbook is a person-centered reference …
Pregnancy and Birth
A Reference Handbook
Av Keisha L. Goode, Barbara Katz Rothman
E-bok, 2021
343 kr
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"A thoughtful look at issues confronting pregnant Americans." – Library Journal Pregnancy and Birth: A Reference Handbook provides students with information on how pregnancy and giving are transformative events at individual, family, and societal levels. This handbook is a person-centered reference …
Bun in the Oven
How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization
Inbunden, 2016
1120 kr
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There are people dedicated to improving the way we eat, and people dedicated to improving the way we give birth. A Bun in the Oven is the first comparison of these two social movements. The food movement has seemingly exploded, but little has changed in the diet of most Americans. And while there's …
Bun in the Oven
How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization
Häftad, 2016
384 kr
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There are people dedicated to improving the way we eat, and people dedicated to improving the way we give birth. A Bun in the Oven is the first comparison of these two social movements. The food movement has seemingly exploded, but little has changed in the diet of most Americans. And while there's …
Biomedical Empire
Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Häftad, 2021
203 kr
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We are all citizens of the Biomedical Empire, though few of us know it, and even fewer understand the extent of its power. In this book, Barbara Katz Rothman clarifies that critiques of biopower and the "medical industrial complex" have not gone far enough, and asserts that the medical industry is …
Biomedical Empire
Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic
E-bok, 2021
243 kr
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We are all citizens of the Biomedical Empire, though few of us know it, and even fewer understand the extent of its power. In this book, Barbara Katz Rothman clarifies that critiques of biopower and the "medical industrial complex" have not gone far enough, and asserts that the medical industry is …
Patients, Consumers and Civil Society
Av Susan Chambre, Melinda A. Goldner m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
1467 kr
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Medical Sociology is among the largest and first subdisciplines in Sociology. It is an area of ongoing work, advancing theory, method and our substantive understanding of social life. This series brings together the newest issues and most current concerns in Medical Sociology, in an ongoing …
Patients, Consumers and Civil Society
Av Barbara Katz Rothman, Melinda A. Goldner m. fl.
E-bok, 2008
1448 kr
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Medical Sociology is among the largest and first subdisciplines in Sociology. It is an area of ongoing work, advancing theory, method and our substantive understanding of social life. This series brings together the newest issues and most current concerns in Medical Sociology, in an ongoing …
Health, Culture and Society
Conceptual Legacies and Contemporary Applications
Av Elizabeth Ettorre, Ellen Annandale m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1240 kr
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This book traces the history of formative, enduring concepts, foundational in the development of the health disciplines. It explores existing literature, and subsequent contested applications. Feminist legacies are discussed with a clear message that early sociological and anthropological theories …
Health, Culture and Society
Conceptual Legacies and Contemporary Applications
Av Barbara Katz Rothman, Ana Porroche-Escudero m. fl.
E-bok, 2017
1670 kr
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This book traces the history of formative, enduring concepts, foundational in the development of the health disciplines. It explores existing literature, and subsequent contested applications. Feminist legacies are discussed with a clear message that early sociological and anthropological theories …
Health, Culture and Society
Conceptual Legacies and Contemporary Applications
Av Elizabeth Ettorre, Ellen Annandale m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
1243 kr
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This book traces the history of formative, enduring concepts, foundational in the development of the health disciplines. It explores existing literature, and subsequent contested applications. Feminist legacies are discussed with a clear message that early sociological and anthropological theories …
Pregnancy and Birth
A Reference Handbook
Av Keisha L. Goode, Barbara Katz Rothman
E-bok, 2021
353 kr
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"A thoughtful look at issues confronting pregnant Americans." – Library Journal Pregnancy and Birth: A Reference Handbook provides students with information on how pregnancy and giving are transformative events at individual, family, and societal levels. This handbook is a person-centered reference …
Pregnancy and Birth
A Reference Handbook
Av Keisha L. Goode, Barbara Katz Rothman m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
327 kr
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"A thoughtful look at issues confronting pregnant Americans." – Library JournalPregnancy and Birth: A Reference Handbook provides students with information on how pregnancy and giving are transformative events at individual, family, and societal levels.This handbook is a person-centered reference …
