Medical Humanities – serie
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8 produkter
Making Diabetes – The Politics of Diabetes Diagnostics in Uganda
Häftad, 2021
435 kr
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Diabetes is regarded as one of the most challenging global health issues of the 21st century. Especially countries with weak health infrastructure are struggling to deal with the increased demands this chronic disease entails.Tracing the effects of a diagnostic device, the glucometer, this book …
Political Ecology of Malaria – Emerging Dynamics of Wetland Agriculture at the Urban Fringe in Central Uganda
Häftad, 2021
1184 kr
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Malaria remains one of the main causes of mortality and morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa. Matian van Soest looks at the malaria epidemic in the peri-urban zones of Uganda's capital Kampala against the backdrop of recent socio-ecological transformations.Based on long-term ethnographic research, the …
Strange Blood – The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in Nineteenth–Century Medicine and Beyond
Av Boel Berner
Häftad, 2021
330 kr
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In the mid-1870s, the experimental therapy of lamb blood transfusion spread like an epidemic across Europe and the USA. Doctors tried it as a cure for tuberculosis, pellagra and anemia; proposed it as a means to reanimate seemingly dead soldiers on the battlefield. It was a contested therapy …
Narrating Experiences of Alzheimer's Through the Arts
Phenomenological and Existentialist Descriptions of the Living Body
Häftad, 2023
924 kr
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While Alzheimer's might be associated with a difficulty to express oneself, Ana Paula Barbosa-Fohrmann addresses this topic by examining experiences with Alzheimer's based on narratives. In this original contribution, she studies the nexus of life stories, subjectivity, fragmentation, and fiction. …
Stereotypically Autistic?
Autism Portrayals in Young Adult Fiction
Häftad, 2025
574 kr
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Fictional representations of autism hold immense power over social perception, and yet such portrayals often remain stereotypical and one-sided. Based on discourse theory, Eva Charlotte Hesse explores the origins of autism stereotypes with regard to ideas of normality and deviance, their impact on …
Infection and Injustice
Narrative Dimensions in the Representation of Pandemics
Av Silke Schicktanz, Andrew S. Gross m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
1095 kr
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Infections spread, and stories are composed: The difference between the two forms of communicability ‒ transmission and representation ‒ opens a space for reflecting on what illness means. The contributors focus on the moral and social dimensions involved in narrating pandemics, analyzing how urban …
