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18 produkter
East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan
Varieties of Medical Experience
Häftad, 1984
441 kr
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"An excellent description and analysis of East Asian medicine ...Based on fieldwork conducted in Japan during 1973 and 1974, which involved the use of a variecy of participant-observer techniques, as well as extensive reading in primary and secondary sources in Japanese and English, Lock's study …
Knowledge, Power, and Practice
The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life
Av Shirley Lindenbaum, Margaret M. Lock
Häftad, 1993
485 kr
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These original essays, which combine theoretical argument with empirical observation, constitute a state-of-the-art platform for future research in medical anthropology. Ranging in time and locale, the essays are based on research in historical and cultural settings. The contributors accept the …
Encounters with Aging
Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America
Häftad, 1995
457 kr
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Margaret Lock explicitly compares Japanese and North American medical and political accounts of female middle age to challenge Western assumptions about menopause. She uses ethnography, interviews, statistics, historical and popular culture materials, and medical publications to produce a richly …
Social Suffering
Av Arthur Kleinman, Veena Das m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
305 kr
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"Social suffering" takes in the human consequences of war, famine, depression, disease, torture--the whole assemblage of human problems that result from what political, economic, and institutional power does to people--and also human responses to social problems as they are influenced by those …
Remaking a World
Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery
Av Veena Das, Arthur Kleinman m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
428 kr
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Remaking a World completes a triptych of volumes on social suffering, violence, and recovery. Social Suffering, the first volume, deals with sources and major forms of social adversity, with an emphasis on political violence. The second, Violence and Subjectivity, contains graphic accounts of how …
Twice Dead
Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death
Häftad, 2001
297 kr
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Tales about organ transplants appear in mythology and folk stories, and surface in documents from medieval times, but only during the past twenty years has medical knowledge and technology been sufficiently advanced for surgeons to perform thousands of transplants each year. In the majority of …
East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan
Varieties of Medical Experience
E-bok, 1980
503 kr
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"An excellent description and analysis of East Asian medicine ... Based on fieldwork conducted in Japan during 1973 and 1974, which involved the use of a variecy of participant-observer techniques, as well as extensive reading in primary and secondary sources in Japanese and English, Lock''s study …
Remaking a World
Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery
Av Pamela Reynolds, Mamphela Ramphele m. fl.
E-bok, 2001
487 kr
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Remaking a World completes a triptych of volumes on social suffering, violence, and recovery. Social Suffering, the first volume, deals with sources and major forms of social adversity, with an emphasis on political violence. The second, Violence and Subjectivity, contains graphic accounts of how …
Twice Dead
Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death
E-bok, 2001
506 kr
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Tales about organ transplants appear in mythology and folk stories, and surface in documents from medieval times, but only during the past twenty years has medical knowledge and technology been sufficiently advanced for surgeons to perform thousands of transplants each year. In the majority of …
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 …
Can Science Resolve the Nature / Nurture Debate?
Av Margaret M. Lock, Gisli Palsson
Inbunden, 2016
640 kr
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Following centuries of debate about "nature and nurture" the discovery of DNA established the idea that nature (genes) determines who we are, relegating nurture (environment) to icing on the cake.Since the 1950s, the new science of epigenetics has demonstrated how cellular environments and certain …
Can Science Resolve the Nature / Nurture Debate?
Av Margaret M. Lock, Gisli Palsson
Häftad, 2016
148 kr
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Following centuries of debate about "nature and nurture" the discovery of DNA established the idea that nature (genes) determines who we are, relegating nurture (environment) to icing on the cake.Since the 1950s, the new science of epigenetics has demonstrated how cellular environments and certain …
Can Science Resolve the Nature / Nurture Debate?
Av Gisli Palsson, Margaret M. Lock
E-bok, 2016
163 kr
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Following centuries of debate about "nature and nurture" the discovery of DNA established the idea that nature (genes) determines who we are, relegating nurture (environment) to icing on the cake. Since the 1950s, the new science of epigenetics has demonstrated how cellular environments and certain …
Anthropology of Biomedicine
Av Margaret M. Lock, Vinh-Kim Nguyen
Häftad, 2018
770 kr
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In this fully revised and updated second edition of An Anthropology of Biomedicine, authors Lock and Nguyen introduce biomedicine from an anthropological perspective, exploring the entanglement of material bodies with history, environment, culture, and politics. Drawing on historical and …
Anthropology of Biomedicine
Av Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Margaret M. Lock
E-bok, 2018
870 kr
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In this fully revised and updated second edition of An Anthropology of Biomedicine , authors Lock and Nguyen introduce biomedicine from an anthropological perspective, exploring the entanglement of material bodies with history, environment, culture, and politics. Drawing on historical and …
Anthropology of Biomedicine
Av Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Margaret M. Lock
E-bok, 2018
870 kr
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In this fully revised and updated second edition of An Anthropology of Biomedicine , authors Lock and Nguyen introduce biomedicine from an anthropological perspective, exploring the entanglement of material bodies with history, environment, culture, and politics. Drawing on historical and …
Anthropology of Biomedicine
Av Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Margaret M. Lock
E-bok, 2010
1578 kr
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An Anthropology of Biomedicine is an exciting new introduction to biomedicine and its global implications. Focusing on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies bring about radical changes to societies at large, cultural anthropologist Margaret Lock and her co-author physician …
Anthropology of Biomedicine
Av Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Margaret M. Lock
E-bok, 2011
651 kr
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An Anthropology of Biomedicine is an exciting new introduction to biomedicine and its global implications. Focusing on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies bring about radical changes to societies at large, cultural anthropologist Margaret Lock and her co-author physician …
