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21 produkter
Doctors for Democracy
Health Professionals in the Nepal Revolution
Inbunden, 1998
1644 kr
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This book examines the role of the Nepali physicians in the revolutionary changes in 1990. These doctors are trained in the Western tradition, and participate in international scientific debates, yet they have always been concerned to develop a form of medical practice that was relevant to Nepali …
Doctors for Democracy
Health Professionals in the Nepal Revolution
Av Vincanne Adams, Alan Harwood
Häftad, 1998
787 kr
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This book examines the role of the Nepali physicians in the revolutionary changes in 1990. These doctors are trained in the Western tradition, and participate in international scientific debates, yet they have always been concerned to develop a form of medical practice that was relevant to Nepali …
Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas
An Ethnography of Himalayan Encounters
Häftad, 1995
625 kr
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Sherpas are portrayed by Westerners as heroic mountain guides, or "tigers of the snow," as Buddhist adepts, and as a people in touch with intimate ways of life that seem no longer available in the Western world. In this book, Vincanne Adams explores how attempts to characterize an "authentic" …
Sex in Development
Science, Sexuality, and Morality in Global Perspective
Av Stacy Leigh Pigg, Vincanne Adams
Häftad, 2005
632 kr
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Sex in Development examines how development projects around the world intended to promote population management, disease prevention, and maternal and child health intentionally and unintentionally shape ideas about what constitutes “normal” sexual practices and identities. From sex education in …
Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith
New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina
Häftad, 2013
353 kr
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Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith is an ethnographic account of long-term recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans. It is also a sobering exploration of the privatization of vital social services under market-driven governance. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, public agencies subcontracted disaster …
Metrics
What Counts in Global Health
Inbunden, 2016
1621 kr
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This volume's contributors evaluate the accomplishments, limits, and consequences of using quantitative metrics in global health. Whether analyzing maternal mortality rates, the relationships between political goals and metrics data, or the links between health outcomes and a program's fiscal …
Metrics
What Counts in Global Health
Häftad, 2016
396 kr
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This volume's contributors evaluate the accomplishments, limits, and consequences of using quantitative metrics in global health. Whether analyzing maternal mortality rates, the relationships between political goals and metrics data, or the links between health outcomes and a program's fiscal …
Metrics
What Counts in Global Health
E-bok, 2016
574 kr
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This volume''s contributors evaluate the accomplishments, limits, and consequences of using quantitative metrics in global health. Whether analyzing maternal mortality rates, the relationships between political goals and metrics data, or the links between health outcomes and a program''s fiscal …
Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith
New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina
E-bok, 2013
537 kr
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Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith is an ethnographic account of long-term recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans. It is also a sobering exploration of the privatization of vital social services under market-driven governance. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, public agencies subcontracted disaster …
Sex in Development
Science, Sexuality, and Morality in Global Perspective
Av Vincanne Adams, Stacy Leigh Pigg
E-bok, 2005
651 kr
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Sex in Development examines how development projects around the world intended to promote population management, disease prevention, and maternal and child health intentionally and unintentionally shape ideas about what constitutes “normal” sexual practices and identities. From sex education in …
Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas
An Ethnography of Himalayan Encounters
E-bok, 2014
829 kr
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Sherpas are portrayed by Westerners as heroic mountain guides, or "tigers of the snow," as Buddhist adepts, and as a people in touch with intimate ways of life that seem no longer available in the Western world. In this book, Vincanne Adams explores how attempts to characterize an "authentic" …
Glyphosate and the Swirl
An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move
Häftad, 2023
280 kr
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In Glyphosate and the Swirl Vincanne Adams explores the chemical glyphosate-the active ingredient in Roundup and a pervasive agricultural herbicide-as a predicament of contested science and chemically saturated life. Adams traces the history of glyphosate’s invention and its multiple uses as …
Arc of Interference
Medical Anthropology for Worlds on Edge
Inbunden, 2023
1272 kr
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The radically humanistic essays in Arc of Interference refigure our sense of the real, the ethical, and the political in the face of mounting social and planetary upheavals. Creatively assembled around Arthur Kleinman’s medical anthropological arc and eschewing hegemonic modes of intervention, the …
Glyphosate and the Swirl
An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move
Inbunden, 2023
1099 kr
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In Glyphosate and the Swirl Vincanne Adams explores the chemical glyphosate-the active ingredient in Roundup and a pervasive agricultural herbicide-as a predicament of contested science and chemically saturated life. Adams traces the history of glyphosate’s invention and its multiple uses as …
Arc of Interference
Medical Anthropology for Worlds on Edge
Häftad, 2023
338 kr
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The radically humanistic essays in Arc of Interference refigure our sense of the real, the ethical, and the political in the face of mounting social and planetary upheavals. Creatively assembled around Arthur Kleinman’s medical anthropological arc and eschewing hegemonic modes of intervention, the …
Glyphosate and the Swirl
An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move
E-bok, 2022
419 kr
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In Glyphosate and the Swirl Vincanne Adams explores the chemical glyphosate—the active ingredient in Roundup and a pervasive agricultural herbicide—as a predicament of contested science and chemically saturated life. Adams traces the history of glyphosate’s invention and its multiple uses as …
Arc of Interference
Medical Anthropology for Worlds on Edge
E-bok, 2023
503 kr
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The radically humanistic essays in Arc of Interference refigure our sense of the real, the ethical, and the political in the face of mounting social and planetary upheavals. Creatively assembled around Arthur Kleinman’s medical anthropological arc and eschewing hegemonic modes of intervention, the …
What's Making Our Children Sick?
How Industrial Food Is Causing an Epidemic of Chronic Illness, and What Parents (and Doctors) Can Do About It
Av Vincanne Adams, Michelle Perro
E-bok, 2017
280 kr
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Exploring the links between GM foods, glyphosate, and gut health With chronic disorders among American children reaching epidemic levels, hundreds of thousands of parents are desperately seeking solutions to their children’s declining health, often with little medical guidance from the experts. …
Medicine Between Science and Religion
Explorations on Tibetan Grounds
Av Vincanne Adams, Mona Schrempf m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
511 kr
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There is a growing interest in studies that document the relationship between science and medicine - as ideas, practices, technologies and outcomes - across cultural, national, geographic terrain. Tibetan medicine is not only known as a scholarly medical tradition among other Asian medical systems, …
Medicine Between Science and Religion
Explorations on Tibetan Grounds
Av Vincanne Adams, Mona Schrempf m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1921 kr
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There is a growing interest in studies that document the relationship between science and medicine - as ideas, practices, technologies and outcomes - across cultural, national, geographic terrain. Tibetan medicine is not only known as a scholarly medical tradition among other Asian medical systems, …
Medicine Between Science and Religion
Explorations on Tibetan Grounds
Av Sienna R. Craig, Mona Schrempf m. fl.
E-bok, 2010
326 kr
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There is a growing interest in studies that document the relationship between science and medicine - as ideas, practices, technologies and outcomes - across cultural, national, geographic terrain. Tibetan medicine is not only known as a scholarly medical tradition among other Asian medical systems, …
