Advances in Critical Medical Anthropology – serie
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14 produkter
Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health
Emerging Crises and Systemic Solutions
Inbunden, 2008
2585 kr
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In this groundbreaking, global analysis of the relationship between climate change and human health, Hans Baer and Merrill Singer inventory and critically analyze the diversity of significant and sometimes devastating health implications of global warming. Using a range of theoretical tools from …
Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health
Emerging Crises and Systemic Solutions
Häftad, 2008
667 kr
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In this groundbreaking, global analysis of the relationship between climate change and human health, Hans Baer and Merrill Singer inventory and critically analyze the diversity of significant and sometimes devastating health implications of global warming. Using a range of theoretical tools from …
Drug Effects
Khat in Biocultural and Socioeconomic Perspective
Av Lisa Gezon
Inbunden, 2012
2585 kr
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Khat, marijuana, peyote—are these dangerous drugs or vilified plants with rich cultural and medical values? In this book, Lisa Gezon brings the drug debate into the 21st century, proposing criteria for evaluating psychotropic substances. Focusing on khat, whose bushy leaves are an increasingly …
Drug Effects
Khat in Biocultural and Socioeconomic Perspective
Av Lisa Gezon
Häftad, 2012
667 kr
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Khat, marijuana, peyote—are these dangerous drugs or vilified plants with rich cultural and medical values? In this book, Lisa Gezon brings the drug debate into the 21st century, proposing criteria for evaluating psychotropic substances. Focusing on khat, whose bushy leaves are an increasingly …
Healthy Ancestor
Embodied Inequality and the Revitalization of Native Hawai’ian Health
Inbunden, 2009
2585 kr
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Native Americans, researchers increasingly worry, are disproportionately victims of epidemics and poor health because they “fail” to seek medical care, are “non-compliant” patients, or “lack immunity” enjoyed by the “mainstream” population. Challenging this dominant approach to indigenous health, …
Healthy Ancestor
Embodied Inequality and the Revitalization of Native Hawai’ian Health
Häftad, 2010
652 kr
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Native Americans, researchers increasingly worry, are disproportionately victims of epidemics and poor health because they “fail” to seek medical care, are “non-compliant” patients, or “lack immunity” enjoyed by the “mainstream” population. Challenging this dominant approach to indigenous health, …
Syndemic Suffering
Social Distress, Depression, and Diabetes among Mexican Immigrant Wome
Inbunden, 2012
2585 kr
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In a major contribution to the study of diabetes, this book is the first to analyze the disease through a syndemic framework. An innovative, mixed-methods study, Emily Mendenhall shows how adverse social conditions, such as poverty and oppressive relationships, disproportionately stress certain …
Syndemic Suffering
Social Distress, Depression, and Diabetes among Mexican Immigrant Wome
Häftad, 2013
652 kr
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In a major contribution to the study of diabetes, this book is the first to analyze the disease through a syndemic framework. An innovative, mixed-methods study, Emily Mendenhall shows how adverse social conditions, such as poverty and oppressive relationships, disproportionately stress certain …
Thinking Through Resistance
A study of public oppositions to contemporary global health practice
Inbunden, 2017
2585 kr
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Acts of public defiance towards biomedical public health policies have occurred throughout modern history, from resistance to early smallpox vaccines in 19th-century Britain and America to more recent intransigence to efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak in Central and West Africa. Thinking …
Thinking Through Resistance
A study of public oppositions to contemporary global health practice
Häftad, 2017
652 kr
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Acts of public defiance towards biomedical public health policies have occurred throughout modern history, from resistance to early smallpox vaccines in 19th-century Britain and America to more recent intransigence to efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak in Central and West Africa. Thinking …
Health Policy in a Time of Crisis
Abortion, Austerity, and Access
Inbunden, 2017
2585 kr
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Health Policy in a Time of Crisis is a vivid ethnographic account of women and providers navigating the Catalan health system to obtain and provide publicly funded abortion care.Grounded in critical medical anthropology, the book situates access to publicly funded abortion care in the context of …
Health Policy in a Time of Crisis
Abortion, Austerity, and Access
Häftad, 2017
727 kr
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Health Policy in a Time of Crisis is a vivid ethnographic account of women and providers navigating the Catalan health system to obtain and provide publicly funded abortion care.Grounded in critical medical anthropology, the book situates access to publicly funded abortion care in the context of …
Social Justice and Medical Practice
Life History of a Physician of Social Medicine
Av Merrill Singer, Rebecca Allen
Inbunden, 2017
2585 kr
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How do we understand and respond to the pressing health problems of modern society? Conventional practice focuses on the assessment and clinical treatment of immediate health issues presented by individual patients. In contrast, social medicine advocates an equal focus on the assessment and social …
Social Justice and Medical Practice
Life History of a Physician of Social Medicine
Av Merrill Singer, Rebecca Allen
Häftad, 2017
827 kr
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How do we understand and respond to the pressing health problems of modern society? Conventional practice focuses on the assessment and clinical treatment of immediate health issues presented by individual patients. In contrast, social medicine advocates an equal focus on the assessment and social …
