Medical Anthropology – serie
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38 produkter
Fault Lines of Care
Gender, HIV, and Global Health in Bolivia
Häftad, 2018
510 kr
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The HIV epidemic in Bolivia has received little attention on a global scale in light of the country’s low HIV prevalence rate. However, by profiling the largest city in this land-locked Latin American country, Carina Heckert shows how global health-funded HIV care programs at times clash with local …
Fault Lines of Care
Gender, HIV, and Global Health in Bolivia
Inbunden, 2018
1789 kr
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The HIV epidemic in Bolivia has received little attention on a global scale in light of the country’s low HIV prevalence rate. However, by profiling the largest city in this land-locked Latin American country, Carina Heckert shows how global health-funded HIV care programs at times clash with local …
Faith and the Pursuit of Health
Cardiometabolic Disorders in Samoa
Häftad, 2018
453 kr
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Faith and the Pursuit of Health explores how Pentecostal Christians manage chronic illness in ways that sheds light on health disparities and social suffering in Samoa, a place where rates of obesity and related cardiometabolic disorders have reached population-wide levels. Pentecostals grapple …
Faith and the Pursuit of Health
Cardiometabolic Disorders in Samoa
Inbunden, 2018
1737 kr
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Faith and the Pursuit of Health explores how Pentecostal Christians manage chronic illness in ways that sheds light on health disparities and social suffering in Samoa, a place where rates of obesity and related cardiometabolic disorders have reached population-wide levels. Pentecostals grapple …
Psychiatric Encounters
Madness and Modernity in Yucatan, Mexico
Häftad, 2018
481 kr
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Psychiatric Encounters presents an intimate portrait of a public inpatient psychiatric facility in the Southeastern state of Yucatan, Mexico. The book explores the experiences of patients and psychiatrists as they navigate the challenges of public psychiatric care in Mexico. While international …
Psychiatric Encounters
Madness and Modernity in Yucatan, Mexico
Inbunden, 2018
1243 kr
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Psychiatric Encounters presents an intimate portrait of a public inpatient psychiatric facility in the Southeastern state of Yucatan, Mexico. The book explores the experiences of patients and psychiatrists as they navigate the challenges of public psychiatric care in Mexico. While international …
Pathogenic Policing
Immigration Enforcement and Health in the U.S. South
Av Nolan Kline
Häftad, 2019
481 kr
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The relationship between undocumented immigrants and law enforcement officials continues to be a politically contentious topic in the United States. Nolan Kline focuses on the hidden, health-related impacts of immigrant policing to examine the role of policy in shaping health inequality in the …
Pathogenic Policing
Immigration Enforcement and Health in the U.S. South
Av Nolan Kline
Inbunden, 2019
1243 kr
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The relationship between undocumented immigrants and law enforcement officials continues to be a politically contentious topic in the United States. Nolan Kline focuses on the hidden, health-related impacts of immigrant policing to examine the role of policy in shaping health inequality in the …
Chronic Failures
Kidneys, Regimes of Care, and the Mexican State
Häftad, 2019
467 kr
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Chronic Failures: Kidneys, Regimes of Care and the Mexican State is about Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and the relentless search for renal care lived out in the context of poverty, inequality and uneven welfare arrangements. Based on ethnographic research conducted in the state of Jalisco, this …
Chronic Failures
Kidneys, Regimes of Care, and the Mexican State
Inbunden, 2019
1731 kr
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Chronic Failures: Kidneys, Regimes of Care and the Mexican State is about Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and the relentless search for renal care lived out in the context of poverty, inequality and uneven welfare arrangements. Based on ethnographic research conducted in the state of Jalisco, this …
International Surrogacy As Disruptive Industry in Southeast Asia
Häftad, 2018
453 kr
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During the last two decades, a new form of trade in commercial surrogacy grew across Asia. Starting in India, a "disruptive" model of surrogacy offered mass availability, rapid accessibility, and created new demands for surrogacy services from people who could not afford or access surrogacy …
International Surrogacy As Disruptive Industry in Southeast Asia
Inbunden, 2018
1737 kr
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During the last two decades, a new form of trade in commercial surrogacy grew across Asia. Starting in India, a "disruptive" model of surrogacy offered mass availability, rapid accessibility, and created new demands for surrogacy services from people who could not afford or access surrogacy …
Devil's Fruit
Farmworkers, Health, and Environmental Justice
Häftad, 2021
467 kr
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The Devil's Fruit describes the facets of the strawberry industry as a harm industry, and explores author Dvera Saxton’s activist ethnographic work with farmworkers in response to health and environmental injustices. She argues that dealing with devilish—as in deadly, depressing, disabling, and …
Devil's Fruit
Farmworkers, Health, and Environmental Justice
Inbunden, 2021
1681 kr
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The Devil's Fruit describes the facets of the strawberry industry as a harm industry, and explores author Dvera Saxton’s activist ethnographic work with farmworkers in response to health and environmental injustices. She argues that dealing with devilish—as in deadly, depressing, disabling, and …
Fistula Politics
Birthing Injuries and the Quest for Continence in Niger
Häftad, 2018
481 kr
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Obstetric fistula is a birthing injury caused by prolonged obstructed labor that results in urinary and fecal incontinence. It is nearly non-existent in the Global North. In contrast Niger, in West Africa, has one of the highest rates of fistula in the world. In Western humanitarian and media …
Sugar and Tension
Diabetes and Gender in Modern India
Inbunden, 2018
1789 kr
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Women in North India are socialized to care for others, so what do they do when they get a disease like diabetes that requires intensive self-care? In Sugar and Tension, Lesley Jo Weaver uses women's experiences with diabetes in New Delhi as a lens to explore how gendered roles and expectations are …
Dying to Count
Post-Abortion Care and Global Reproductive Health Politics in Senegal
Av Siri Suh
Häftad, 2021
467 kr
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During the early 1990s, global health experts developed a new model of emergency obstetric care: post-abortion care or PAC. In developing countries with restrictive abortion laws and where NGOs relied on US family planning aid, PAC offered an apolitical approach to addressing the consequences of …
Becoming Gods
Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals
Häftad, 2021
424 kr
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Through rich ethnographic narrative, Becoming Gods examines how a cohort of doctors-in-training in the Mexican city of Puebla learn to become doctors. Smith-Oka draws from compelling fieldwork, ethnography, and interviews with interns, residents, and doctors that tell the story of how medical …
Viral Frictions
Global Health and the Persistence of HIV Stigma in Kenya
Häftad, 2022
453 kr
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Viral Frictions takes the reader along a trail of intersecting narratives to uncover how and why it is that HIV-related stigma persists in the age of treatment. Pfeiffer convincingly argues that stigma is a socially constructed process co-produced at the nexus of local, national, and global …
Forgotten Bodies
Imperialism, Chuukese Migration, and Stratified Reproduction in Guam
Häftad, 2023
424 kr
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Women from Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia, who migrate to Guam, a U.S. territory, suffer disproportionately poor reproductive health outcomes. Though their access to the United States is unusually easy, through a unique migration agreement, it keeps them in a perpetual liminal state as …
Forgotten Bodies
Imperialism, Chuukese Migration, and Stratified Reproduction in Guam
Inbunden, 2023
1789 kr
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Women from Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia, who migrate to Guam, a U.S. territory, suffer disproportionately poor reproductive health outcomes. Though their access to the United States is unusually easy, through a unique migration agreement, it keeps them in a perpetual liminal state as …
Calling Family
Digital Technologies and the Making of Transnational Care Collectives
Av Tanja Ahlin
Häftad, 2023
425 kr
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How do digital technologies shape both how people care for each other and, through that, who they are? With technological innovation is on the rise and increasing migration introducing vast distances between family members--a situation additionally complicated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the …
Best Place
Addiction, Intervention, and Living and Dying Young in Vancouver
Av Danya Fast
Häftad, 2023
438 kr
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In both local and international imaginations, Vancouver, Canada, is often celebrated as one of the world’s most beautiful, cosmopolitan, and livable cities. Simultaneously, the city continues to be ground zero for successive waves of public health emergency and intervention, including a recent and …
Best Place
Addiction, Intervention, and Living and Dying Young in Vancouver
Av Danya Fast
Inbunden, 2023
1789 kr
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In both local and international imaginations, Vancouver, Canada, is often celebrated as one of the world’s most beautiful, cosmopolitan, and livable cities. Simultaneously, the city continues to be ground zero for successive waves of public health emergency and intervention, including a recent and …
Negotiation of Urgency
Economies of Attention in an Italian Emergency Room
Häftad, 2025
338 kr
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Who is to be attended first? And how should such a decision be made? The Negotiation of Urgency: Economies of Attention in an Italian Emergency Room ethnographically explores the everyday life of one of the thickest places in contemporary societies: the ER, where aging, economic precarity, …
Negotiation of Urgency
Economies of Attention in an Italian Emergency Room
Inbunden, 2025
1386 kr
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Who is to be attended first? And how should such a decision be made? The Negotiation of Urgency: Economies of Attention in an Italian Emergency Room ethnographically explores the everyday life of one of the thickest places in contemporary societies: the ER, where aging, economic precarity, …
Politics of Potential
Global Health and Gendered Futures in South Africa
Häftad, 2024
347 kr
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The first one thousand days of human life, or the period between conception and age two, is one of the most pivotal periods of human development. Optimizing nutrition during this time not only prevents childhood malnutrition but also determines future health and potential. The Politics of Potential …
Politics of Potential
Global Health and Gendered Futures in South Africa
Inbunden, 2024
1789 kr
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The first one thousand days of human life, or the period between conception and age two, is one of the most pivotal periods of human development. Optimizing nutrition during this time not only prevents childhood malnutrition but also determines future health and potential. The Politics of Potential …
Curating Conception
Race and Reproduction in South Africa
Av Tessa Moll
Häftad, 2027
339 kr
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South Africa's private fertility clinics promise hope: expert care, measurable success rates, and the possibility of long-desired children. While seemingly insulated from the legacies of apartheid and the stark inequalities of the present, these clinics operate within a society still shaped by …
Curating Conception
Race and Reproduction in South Africa
Av Tessa Moll
Inbunden, 2027
1386 kr
Kommande
South Africa's private fertility clinics promise hope: expert care, measurable success rates, and the possibility of long-desired children. While seemingly insulated from the legacies of apartheid and the stark inequalities of the present, these clinics operate within a society still shaped by …
