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12 produkter
Breathing Spaces
Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China
Häftad, 2003
351 kr
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The charismatic form of healing called qigong, based on meditative breathing exercises, has achieved enormous popularity in China during the last two decades. Qigong served a critical social organizational function, as practitioners formed new informal networks, sometimes on an international scale, …
Breathing Spaces
Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China
E-bok, 2003
534 kr
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The charismatic form of healing called qigong, based on meditative breathing exercises, has achieved enormous popularity in China during the last two decades. Qigong served a critical social organizational function, as practitioners formed new informal networks, sometimes on an international scale, …
Food, Medicine, and the Quest for Good Health
Nutrition, Medicine, and Culture
E-bok, 2008
398 kr
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What we eat, how we eat, where we eat, and when we eat are deeply embedded cultural practices. Eating is also related to how we medicate. The multimillion-dollar diet industry offers advice on how to eat for a better body and longer life, and avoiding harmful foods (or choosing healthy ones) is …
China Urban
Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture
Av Nancy N. Chen, Constance D. Clark m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
1325 kr
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China Urban is an ethnographic account of China’s cities and the place that urban space holds in China’s imagination. In addition to investigating this nation’s rapidly changing urban landscape, its contributors emphasize the need to rethink the very meaning of the “urban” and the utility of …
China Urban
Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture
Av Nancy N. Chen, Constance D. Clark m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
632 kr
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China Urban is an ethnographic account of China’s cities and the place that urban space holds in China’s imagination. In addition to investigating this nation’s rapidly changing urban landscape, its contributors emphasize the need to rethink the very meaning of the “urban” and the utility of …
Asian Biotech
Ethics and Communities of Fate
Häftad, 2010
385 kr
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Providing the first overview of Asia’s emerging biosciences landscape, this timely and important collection brings together ethnographic case studies on biotech endeavors such as genetically modified foods in China, clinical trials in India, blood collection in Singapore and China, and stem-cell …
Asian Biotech
Ethics and Communities of Fate
E-bok, 2010
587 kr
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Providing the first overview of Asia’s emerging biosciences landscape, this timely and important collection brings together ethnographic case studies on biotech endeavors such as genetically modified foods in China, clinical trials in India, blood collection in Singapore and China, and stem-cell …
Qi as Lived Experience
Breath, Wind, Potency, and Mind in Chinese Thought
Av Adam D. Frank, Stephen L. Field m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1210 kr
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In this exploration of the central Chinese concept of qi, a team of authors trace its role in early texts and contemporary neuroscience to show how it continues to be relevant beyond China.As life-long scholars of qi related practices, Adam Frank, Nancy Chen, and Stephen Field offer new insights …
Qi as Lived Experience
Breath, Wind, Potency, and Mind in Chinese Thought
Av Adam D. Frank, Stephen L. Field m. fl.
E-bok, 2026
1325 kr
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In this exploration of the central Chinese concept of qi, a team of authors trace its role in early texts and contemporary neuroscience to show how it continues to be relevant beyond China.As life-long scholars of qi related practices, Adam Frank, Nancy Chen, and Stephen Field offer new insights …
Qi as Lived Experience
Breath, Wind, Potency, and Mind in Chinese Thought
Av Adam D. Frank, Stephen L. Field m. fl.
E-bok, 2026
1286 kr
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In this exploration of the central Chinese concept of qi, a team of authors trace its role in early texts and contemporary neuroscience to show how it continues to be relevant beyond China.As life-long scholars of qi related practices, Adam Frank, Nancy Chen, and Stephen Field offer new insights …
Bioinsecurity and Vulnerability
Av Nancy N. Chen, Lesley A. Sharp
Häftad, 2014
442 kr
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Life today is rife with rapid-fire “high alert” responses, a proliferating trend that is especially pronounced in the United States (though most certainly felt elsewhere as well), where past catastrophes shape expanding perceptions of imminent danger. September 11, 2001 looms as an inescapable …
Asian Biotech
Ethics and Communities of Fate
Inbunden, 2010
1577 kr
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Providing the first overview of Asia’s emerging biosciences landscape, this timely and important collection brings together ethnographic case studies on biotech endeavors such as genetically modified foods in China, clinical trials in India, blood collection in Singapore and China, and stem-cell …
