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New Horizons in Medical Anthropology
Essays in Honour of Charles Leslie
Av Margaret Lock, Mark Nichter
Inbunden, 2002
2526 kr
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New Horizons in Medical Anthropology is a festschrift in honor of Charles Leslie whose influential career helped shape this subfield of anthropology. This collection of cutting-edge essays explores medical innovation and medical pluralism at the turn of the 21st century. The book accomplishes two …
New Horizons in Medical Anthropology
Essays in Honour of Charles Leslie
Av Margaret Lock, Mark Nichter
Häftad, 2002
827 kr
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New Horizons in Medical Anthropology is a festschrift in honor of Charles Leslie whose influential career helped shape this subfield of anthropology. This collection of cutting-edge essays explores medical innovation and medical pluralism at the turn of the 21st century. The book accomplishes two …
Pragmatic Women and Body Politics
Av Margaret Lock, Patricia Alice Kaufert
Inbunden, 1998
1253 kr
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This thought-provoking volume compares the responses of women in a variety of countries and cultural settings to modern medical technologies. The contributors describe how women in East Africa deal with infertility, how American women respond to pre-natal diagnostic screening, how women in China …
Pragmatic Women and Body Politics
Av Margaret Lock, Patricia Alice Kaufert
Häftad, 1998
634 kr
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This thought-provoking volume compares the responses of women in a variety of countries and cultural settings to modern medical technologies. The contributors describe how women in East Africa deal with infertility, how American women respond to pre-natal diagnostic screening, how women in China …
Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies
Intersections of Inquiry
Av Margaret M. Lock, Margaret Lock m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
634 kr
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This stimulating collection of essays is the product of face-to-face dialogues among anthropologists, sociologists, and philosopher-historians, all of whom focus their attention on the newly created biomedical technologies and their application in practice. Drawing on ethnographic and historical …
Alzheimer Conundrum
Entanglements of Dementia and Aging
Inbunden, 2013
455 kr
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Due to rapidly aging populations, the number of people worldwide experiencing dementia is increasing, and the projections are grim. Despite billions of dollars invested in medical research, no effective treatment has been discovered for Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia. The …
Alzheimer Conundrum
Entanglements of Dementia and Aging
Häftad, 2015
287 kr
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Due to rapidly aging populations, the number of people worldwide experiencing dementia is increasing, and the projections are grim. Despite billions of dollars invested in medical research, no effective treatment has been discovered for Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia. The …
Beyond the Body Proper
Reading the Anthropology of Material Life
Av Margaret Lock, Judith Farquhar
Häftad, 2007
427 kr
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Over the past several decades, scholars in both the social sciences and humanities have moved beyond the idea that there is a “body proper”: a singular, discrete biological organism with an individual psyche. They have begun to perceive embodiment as dynamic rather than static, as experiences that …
New Horizons in Medical Anthropology
Essays in Honour of Charles Leslie
Av Mark Nichter, Margaret Lock
E-bok, 2003
977 kr
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New Horizons in Medical Anthropology is a festschrift in honor of Charles Leslie whose influential career helped shape this subfield of anthropology. This collection of cutting-edge essays explores medical innovation and medical pluralism at the turn of the 21st century. The book accomplishes two …
New Horizons in Medical Anthropology
Essays in Honour of Charles Leslie
Av Mark Nichter, Margaret Lock
E-bok, 2003
977 kr
Lägg i varukorg
New Horizons in Medical Anthropology is a festschrift in honor of Charles Leslie whose influential career helped shape this subfield of anthropology. This collection of cutting-edge essays explores medical innovation and medical pluralism at the turn of the 21st century. The book accomplishes two …
Alzheimer Conundrum
Entanglements of Dementia and Aging
E-bok, 2013
412 kr
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Why our approaches to Alzheimer''s and dementia are problematic and contradictory Due to rapidly aging populations, the number of people worldwide experiencing dementia is increasing, and the projections are grim. Despite billions of dollars invested in medical research, no effective treatment has …
Beyond the Body Proper
Reading the Anthropology of Material Life
Av Margaret Lock, Judith Farquhar
Inbunden, 2007
1640 kr
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Over the past several decades, scholars in both the social sciences and humanities have moved beyond the idea that there is a “body proper”: a singular, discrete biological organism with an individual psyche. They have begun to perceive embodiment as dynamic rather than static, as experiences that …
