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43 produkter
Missing Bodies
The Politics of Visibility
Av Monica Casper, Lisa Jean Moore
Inbunden, 2009
1229 kr
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We know more about the physical body—how it begins, how it responds to illness, even how it decomposes—than ever before. Yet not all bodies are created equal, some bodies clearly count more than others, and some bodies are not recognized at all. In Missing Bodies, Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean …
Missing Bodies
The Politics of Visibility
Av Monica Casper, Lisa Jean Moore
Häftad, 2009
387 kr
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We know more about the physical body—how it begins, how it responds to illness, even how it decomposes—than ever before. Yet not all bodies are created equal, some bodies clearly count more than others, and some bodies are not recognized at all. In Missing Bodies, Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean …
Men at Risk
Masculinity, Heterosexuality and HIV Prevention
Häftad, 2015
311 kr
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Presents a unique approach to HIV prevention at the intersection of sociological and public health researchAlthough the first AIDS cases were attributed to men having sex with men, over 70% of HIV infections worldwide are now estimated to occur through sex between women and men. In Men at Risk, …
Eating Drugs
Psychopharmaceutical Pluralism in India
Av Stefan Ecks
Inbunden, 2013
1001 kr
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A Hindu monk in Calcutta refuses to take his psychotropic medications. His psychiatrist explains that just as his body needs food, the drugs are nutrition for his starved mind. Does it matter how—or whether—patients understand their prescribed drugs? Millions of people in India are routinely …
Cloning Wild Life
Zoos, Captivity, and the Future of Endangered Animals
Inbunden, 2013
973 kr
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The natural world is marked by an ever-increasing loss of varied habitats, a growing number of species extinctions, and a full range of new kinds of dilemmas posed by global warming. At the same time, humans are also working to actively shape this natural world through contemporary bioscience and …
Biopolitics
An Advanced Introduction
Av Thomas Lemke
Inbunden, 2011
859 kr
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The first systematic overview of the notion of biopolitics and its relevance in contemporary theoretical debateThe biological features of human beings are now measured, observed, and understood in ways never before thought possible, defining norms, establishing standards, and determining average …
Biopolitics
An Advanced Introduction
Av Thomas Lemke
Häftad, 2011
329 kr
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The first systematic overview of the notion of biopolitics and its relevance in contemporary theoretical debateThe biological features of human beings are now measured, observed, and understood in ways never before thought possible, defining norms, establishing standards, and determining average …
Phantom Limb
Amputation, Embodiment, and Prosthetic Technology
Häftad, 2014
429 kr
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Phantom limb pain is one of the most intractable and merciless pains ever known—a pain that haunts appendages that do not physically exist, often persisting with uncanny realness long after fleshy limbs have been traumatically, surgically, or congenitally lost. The very existence and "naturalness" …
Heart-Sick
The Politics of Risk, Inequality, and Heart Disease
Inbunden, 2014
973 kr
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Heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States, affects people from all walks of life, yet who lives and who dies from heart disease still depends on race, class, and gender. While scientists and clinicians understand and treat heart disease more effectively than ever before, and …
Heart-Sick
The Politics of Risk, Inequality, and Heart Disease
Häftad, 2014
429 kr
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Heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States, affects people from all walks of life, yet who lives and who dies from heart disease still depends on race, class, and gender. While scientists and clinicians understand and treat heart disease more effectively than ever before, and …
Phantom Limb
Amputation, Embodiment, and Prosthetic Technology
Inbunden, 2014
973 kr
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Phantom limb pain is one of the most intractable and merciless pains ever known—a pain that haunts appendages that do not physically exist, often persisting with uncanny realness long after fleshy limbs have been traumatically, surgically, or congenitally lost. The very existence and "naturalness" …
Material Gene
Gender, Race, and Heredity After the Human Genome Project
Inbunden, 2013
973 kr
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Winner of the 2014 Diamond Anniversary Book AwardFinalist for the 2014 National Communications Association Critical and Cultural Studies Division Book of the Year AwardIn 2000, the National Human Genome Research Institute announced the completion of a "draft" of the human genome, the sequence …
Material Gene
Gender, Race, and Heredity After the Human Genome Project
Häftad, 2013
387 kr
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Winner of the 2014 Diamond Anniversary Book AwardFinalist for the 2014 National Communications Association Critical and Cultural Studies Division Book of the Year AwardIn 2000, the National Human Genome Research Institute announced the completion of a "draft" of the human genome, the sequence …
Is Breast Best?
Taking on the Breastfeeding Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhood
Av Joan B. Wolf
Inbunden, 2010
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
1265 kr
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Why has breastfeeding re-asserted itself over the last twenty years, and why are the government, the scientific and medical communities, and so many mothers so invested in the idea? In Is Breast Best? Joan B. Wolf challenges the widespread belief that breastfeeding is medically superior to …
Against Health
How Health Became the New Morality
Av Jonathan M. Metzl, Anna Kirkland
Inbunden, 2010
929 kr
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Navigates the divergent cultural meanings of health, and its entanglement with morality in current political discourseYou see someone smoking a cigarette and say,"Smoking is bad for your health," when what you mean is, "You are a bad person because you smoke." You encounter someone whose body size …
Against Health
How Health Became the New Morality
Av Jonathan M. Metzl, Anna Kirkland
Häftad, 2010
382 kr
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Navigates the divergent cultural meanings of health, and its entanglement with morality in current political discourseYou see someone smoking a cigarette and say,"Smoking is bad for your health," when what you mean is, "You are a bad person because you smoke." You encounter someone whose body size …
Men at Risk
Masculinity, Heterosexuality and HIV Prevention
Inbunden, 2015
1253 kr
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Presents a unique approach to HIV prevention at the intersection of sociological and public health researchAlthough the first AIDS cases were attributed to men having sex with men, over 70% of HIV infections worldwide are now estimated to occur through sex between women and men. In Men at Risk, …
To Fix or to Heal
Patient Care, Public Health, and the Limits of Biomedicine
Av Joseph E. Davis, Ana Marta Gonzalez
Häftad, 2016
353 kr
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Do doctors fix patients? Or do they heal them? For all of modern medicine's many successes, discontent with the quality of patient care has combined with a host of new developments, from aging populations to the resurgence of infectious diseases, which challenge medicine's overreliance on narrowly …
Contesting Intersex
The Dubious Diagnosis
Inbunden, 2015
1006 kr
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Winner, 2017 Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, presented by the American Sociological AssociationWinner, 2016 Donald Light Award for the Applied or Public Practice of Medical Sociology, presented by the American Sociological Association A personal, compelling perspective on how medical …
Personalized Medicine
Empowered Patients in the 21st Century?
Häftad, 2017
395 kr
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Inside today's data-driven personalized medicine, and the time, effort, and information required from patients to make it a realityMedicine has been personal long before the concept of "personalized medicine" became popular. Health professionals have always taken into consideration the individual …
Personalized Medicine
Empowered Patients in the 21st Century?
Inbunden, 2017
1152 kr
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Inside today's data-driven personalized medicine, and the time, effort, and information required from patients to make it a realityMedicine has been personal long before the concept of "personalized medicine" became popular. Health professionals have always taken into consideration the individual …
Toxic Shock
A Social History
Häftad, 2018
366 kr
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A history of Toxic Shock Syndrome In 1978, doctors in Denver, Colorado observed several healthy children who suddenly and mysteriously developed a serious, life-threatening illness with no visible source. Their condition, which doctors dubbed 'toxic shock syndrome' (TSS) was rare, but observed with …
Freezing Fertility
Oocyte Cryopreservation and the Gender Politics of Aging
Häftad, 2020
395 kr
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Welcomed as liberation and dismissed as exploitation, egg freezing (oocyte cryopreservation) has rapidly become one of the most widely-discussed and influential new reproductive technologies of this century. In Freezing Fertility, Lucy van de Wiel takes us inside the world of fertility …
Managing Diabetes
The Cultural Politics of Disease
Inbunden, 2019
763 kr
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A critical study of diabetes in the popular imaginationOver twenty-nine million people in the United States, more than nine percent of the population, have some form of diabetes. In Managing Diabetes, Jeffrey A. Bennett focuses on how the disease is imagined in public culture. Bennett argues that …
Mattering
Feminism, Science, and Materialism
Inbunden, 2016
1118 kr
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Feminists today are re-imagining nature, biology, and matter in feminist thought and critically addressing new developments in biology, physics, neuroscience, epigenetics and other scientific disciplines. Mattering, edited by noted feminist scholar Victoria Pitts-Taylor, presents contemporary …
Managing Diabetes
The Cultural Politics of Disease
Häftad, 2019
395 kr
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A critical study of diabetes in the popular imaginationOver twenty-nine million people in the United States, more than nine percent of the population, have some form of diabetes. In Managing Diabetes, Jeffrey A. Bennett focuses on how the disease is imagined in public culture. Bennett argues that …
Cloning Wild Life
Zoos, Captivity, and the Future of Endangered Animals
Häftad, 2013
383 kr
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The natural world is marked by an ever-increasing loss of varied habitats, a growing number of species extinctions, and a full range of new kinds of dilemmas posed by global warming. At the same time, humans are also working to actively shape this natural world through contemporary bioscience and …
Contraceptive Risk
The FDA, Depo-Provera, and the Politics of Experimental Medicine
Häftad, 2017
353 kr
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The story of Depo-Provera joins the national struggle over the drug's FDA approval to the state legal issues raised by its contraceptive and criminal justice uses.Depo-Provera is known as an injectable hormonal birth control method, but few are familiar with its dark and complicated history. …
Is Breast Best?
Taking on the Breastfeeding Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhood
Av Joan B. Wolf
Häftad, 2013
395 kr
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Why has breastfeeding re-asserted itself over the last twenty years, and why are the government, the scientific and medical communities, and so many mothers so invested in the idea? In Is Breast Best? Joan B. Wolf challenges the widespread belief that breastfeeding is medically superior to …
Plucked
A History of Hair Removal
Inbunden, 2015
1253 kr
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Uncovers the history of hair removal practices and sheds light on the prolific culture of beautyFrom the clamshell razors and homemade lye depilatories used in colonial America to the diode lasers and prescription pharmaceuticals available today, Americans have used a staggering array of tools to …
