Global Studies in Medicine, Science, Race, and Colonialism – serie
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6 produkter
Criticizing Science
Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle for American Democracy
Av Myrna Perez
Inbunden, 2024
652 kr
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How Stephen Jay Gould's career illustrates that criticizing science is important for American democracy.The question of public trust in science feels newly urgent, but today is not the first time that opposing ends of the American political spectrum have critiqued modern science. This dynamic has …
Do Less Harm
Ethical Questions for Health Historians
Av Courtney E. Thompson, Courtney E Thompson m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
476 kr
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Offers reflections, provocative questions, and practical strategies for ethical, responsible approaches to health history.In Do Less Harm, editors Courtney E. Thompson and Kylie M. Smith bring together a group of leading historians and scholars to confront one of the most pressing questions in …
Birth Politics
Colonial Power, Medical Pluralism, and Maternity in Nigeria
Häftad, 2025
770 kr
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An exploration of the cultural, political, religious, and gender dynamics of Nigeria's maternal health care landscape.In Birth Politics, Ogechukwu E. Williams examines the cultural, political, and medical connections that have shaped childbirth in Nigeria from the colonial era to the present. …
Care of Foreigners
How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare
Av Eram Alam
Häftad, 2025
770 kr
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Why did South Asian physicians become essential to US health care starting in 1965?For more than 60 years, the United States has trained fewer physicians than it needs, relying instead on the economically expedient option of soliciting immigrant physicians trained at the expense of other countries. …
Histories of Disability in Latin America
Av Heather Vrana, Heather Vrana m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
770 kr
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Reframing disability, power, and identity in Latin America's complex histories.Histories of Disability in Latin America offers a sweeping reexamination of disability's place in the region's past, bringing together original scholarship by historians and anthropologists to illuminate how bodies, …
In Good Time
Temporality in Medieval Islamic Medicine
Av Ahmed Ragab
Häftad, 2027
726 kr
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A fresh perspective on medieval Islamic medicine through the history of time, ethics, health, and the human body.Time shapes every aspect of medicine. It governs birth and aging, illness and recovery, the changing seasons, and the rhythms of everyday life. In turn, medical time is shaped by the …
