Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography – serie
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58 produkter
Tension
Mental Distress and Embodied Inequality in the Western Himalayas
Häftad, 2026
354 kr
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In Tension, Nikita Kaur Simpson examines the effects of rapid development in the Himalayas on the minds and bodies of the Gaddi people who inhabit them through attention to the multifaceted state of distress they call “tension.” This “tension” takes many forms: Kamzori, or weakness, in the bodies …
At the Limits of Cure
Inbunden, 2021
1250 kr
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Can a history of cure be more than a history of how disease comes to an end? In 1950s Madras, an international team of researchers demonstrated that antibiotics were effective in treating tuberculosis. But just half a century later, reports out of Mumbai stoked fears about the spread of totally …
At the Limits of Cure
Häftad, 2021
325 kr
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Can a history of cure be more than a history of how disease comes to an end? In 1950s Madras, an international team of researchers demonstrated that antibiotics were effective in treating tuberculosis. But just half a century later, reports out of Mumbai stoked fears about the spread of totally …
Para-States and Medical Science
Making African Global Health
Inbunden, 2015
1366 kr
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In Para-States and Medical Science, P. Wenzel Geissler and the contributors examine how medicine and public health in Africa have been transformed as a result of economic and political liberalization and globalization, intertwined with epidemiological and technological changes. The resulting …
Para-States and Medical Science
Making African Global Health
Häftad, 2015
455 kr
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In Para-States and Medical Science, P. Wenzel Geissler and the contributors examine how medicine and public health in Africa have been transformed as a result of economic and political liberalization and globalization, intertwined with epidemiological and technological changes. The resulting …
Second Chances
Surviving AIDS in Uganda
Inbunden, 2014
1759 kr
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During the first decade of this millennium, many thousands of people in Uganda who otherwise would have died from AIDS got second chances at life. A massive global health intervention, the scaling up of antiretroviral therapy (ART), saved them and created a generation of people who learned to live …
Second Chances
Surviving AIDS in Uganda
Häftad, 2014
397 kr
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During the first decade of this millennium, many thousands of people in Uganda who otherwise would have died from AIDS got second chances at life. A massive global health intervention, the scaling up of antiretroviral therapy (ART), saved them and created a generation of people who learned to live …
Impotence Epidemic
Men's Medicine and Sexual Desire in Contemporary China
Inbunden, 2015
1759 kr
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Since the 1990s China has seen a dramatic increase in the number of men seeking treatment for impotence. Everett Yuehong Zhang argues in The Impotence Epidemic that this trend represents changing public attitudes about sexuality in an increasingly globalized China. In this ethnography he shifts …
Impotence Epidemic
Men's Medicine and Sexual Desire in Contemporary China
Häftad, 2015
579 kr
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Since the 1990s China has seen a dramatic increase in the number of men seeking treatment for impotence. Everett Yuehong Zhang argues in The Impotence Epidemic that this trend represents changing public attitudes about sexuality in an increasingly globalized China. In this ethnography he shifts …
Ordinary Medicine
Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives, and Where to Draw the Line
Häftad, 2015
397 kr
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Most of us want and expect medicine’s miracles to extend our lives. In today’s aging society, however, the line between life-giving therapies and too much treatment is hard to see-it’s being obscured by a perfect storm created by the pharmaceutical and biomedical industries, along with insurance …
Ordinary Medicine
Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives, and Where to Draw the Line
Inbunden, 2015
1626 kr
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Most of us want and expect medicine’s miracles to extend our lives. In today’s aging society, however, the line between life-giving therapies and too much treatment is hard to see-it’s being obscured by a perfect storm created by the pharmaceutical and biomedical industries, along with insurance …
Addicted.pregnant.poor
Inbunden, 2015
1214 kr
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For the addicted, pregnant, and poor women living in daily-rent hotels in San Francisco's Mission district, life is marked by battles against drug cravings, housing debt, and potential violence. In this stunning ethnography Kelly Ray Knight presents these women in all their complex humanity and …
After War
The Weight of Life at Walter Reed
Av Zoë H. Wool
Inbunden, 2015
1579 kr
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In After War ZoË H. Wool explores how the American soldiers most severely injured in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars struggle to build some kind of ordinary life while recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center from grievous injuries like lost limbs and traumatic brain injury. Between 2007 and …
Addicted.pregnant.poor
Häftad, 2015
319 kr
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For the addicted, pregnant, and poor women living in daily-rent hotels in San Francisco's Mission district, life is marked by battles against drug cravings, housing debt, and potential violence. In this stunning ethnography Kelly Ray Knight presents these women in all their complex humanity and …
After War
The Weight of Life at Walter Reed
Av Zoë H. Wool
Häftad, 2015
386 kr
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In After War ZoË H. Wool explores how the American soldiers most severely injured in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars struggle to build some kind of ordinary life while recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center from grievous injuries like lost limbs and traumatic brain injury. Between 2007 and …
Metrics
What Counts in Global Health
Inbunden, 2016
1626 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 …
Metabolic Living
Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India
Inbunden, 2016
1626 kr
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The popular narrative of "globesity" posits that the adoption of Western diets is intensifying obesity and diabetes in the Global South and that disordered metabolisms are the embodied consequence of globalization and excess. In Metabolic Living Harris Solomon recasts these narratives by examining …
Metrics
What Counts in Global Health
Häftad, 2016
397 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 …
Metabolic Living
Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India
Häftad, 2016
397 kr
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The popular narrative of "globesity" posits that the adoption of Western diets is intensifying obesity and diabetes in the Global South and that disordered metabolisms are the embodied consequence of globalization and excess. In Metabolic Living Harris Solomon recasts these narratives by examining …
Tell Me Why My Children Died
Rabies, Indigenous Knowledge, and Communicative Justice
Av Charles L. Briggs, Clara Mantini-Briggs
Inbunden, 2016
1366 kr
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Tell Me Why My Children Died tells the gripping story of indigenous leaders' efforts to identify a strange disease that killed thirty-two children and six young adults in a Venezuelan rain forest between 2007 and 2008. In this pathbreaking book, Charles L. Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs relay the …
Tell Me Why My Children Died
Rabies, Indigenous Knowledge, and Communicative Justice
Av Charles L. Briggs, Clara Mantini-Briggs
Häftad, 2016
397 kr
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Tell Me Why My Children Died tells the gripping story of indigenous leaders' efforts to identify a strange disease that killed thirty-two children and six young adults in a Venezuelan rain forest between 2007 and 2008. In this pathbreaking book, Charles L. Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs relay the …
Medicine in the Meantime
The Work of Care in Mozambique
Av Ramah McKay
Inbunden, 2018
1626 kr
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In Mozambique, where more than half of the national health care budget comes from foreign donors, NGOs and global health research projects have facilitated a dramatic expansion of medical services. At once temporary and unfolding over decades, these projects also enact deeply divergent …
Medicine in the Meantime
The Work of Care in Mozambique
Av Ramah McKay
Häftad, 2018
397 kr
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In Mozambique, where more than half of the national health care budget comes from foreign donors, NGOs and global health research projects have facilitated a dramatic expansion of medical services. At once temporary and unfolding over decades, these projects also enact deeply divergent …
Cooking Data
Culture and Politics in an African Research World
Inbunden, 2018
1579 kr
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In Cooking Data Cal Biruk offers an ethnographic account of research into the demographics of HIV and AIDS in Malawi to rethink the production of quantitative health data. While research practices are often understood within a clean/dirty binary, Biruk shows that data are never clean; rather, they …
Cooking Data
Culture and Politics in an African Research World
Häftad, 2018
378 kr
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In Cooking Data Cal Biruk offers an ethnographic account of research into the demographics of HIV and AIDS in Malawi to rethink the production of quantitative health data. While research practices are often understood within a clean/dirty binary, Biruk shows that data are never clean; rather, they …
Uncaring, Intricate World
A Field Diary, Zambezi Valley, 1984-1985
Av Pamela Reynolds, Todd Meyers
Inbunden, 2019
1482 kr
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In the 1950s the colonial British government in Northern and Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia and Zimbabwe) began construction on a large hydroelectric dam that created Lake Kariba and dislocated nearly 60,000 indigenous residents. Three decades later, Pamela Reynolds began fieldwork with the …
Uncaring, Intricate World
A Field Diary, Zambezi Valley, 1984-1985
Av Pamela Reynolds, Todd Meyers
Häftad, 2019
365 kr
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In the 1950s the colonial British government in Northern and Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia and Zimbabwe) began construction on a large hydroelectric dam that created Lake Kariba and dislocated nearly 60,000 indigenous residents. Three decades later, Pamela Reynolds began fieldwork with the …
Self-Devouring Growth
A Planetary Parable As Told from Southern Africa
Inbunden, 2019
1106 kr
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Under capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective well-being. In Self-Devouring Growth Julie Livingston upends this notion, showing that while consumption-driven growth may seem to benefit a particular locale, it produces a number of unacknowledged, negative consequences that …
Divided Bodies
Lyme Disease, Contested Illness, and Evidence-Based Medicine
Inbunden, 2020
1803 kr
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While many doctors claim that Lyme disease-a tick-borne bacterial infection-is easily diagnosed and treated, other doctors and the patients they care for argue that it can persist beyond standard antibiotic treatment in the form of chronic Lyme disease. In Divided Bodies, Abigail A. Dumes offers an …
Self-Devouring Growth
A Planetary Parable As Told from Southern Africa
Häftad, 2019
282 kr
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Under capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective well-being. In Self-Devouring Growth Julie Livingston upends this notion, showing that while consumption-driven growth may seem to benefit a particular locale, it produces a number of unacknowledged, negative consequences that …
