Medical Humanities – serie

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8 produkter

Making Diabetes – The Politics of Diabetes Diagnostics in Uganda
AvArlena Siobhan Liggins
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
427 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
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 examines how it contributes to the making of diabetes in contemporary Uganda. Arlena S. Liggins demonstrates that depending on who uses the glucometer, the outcomes may go far beyond diagnosis. The book draws a complex picture of hopes and misplaced expectations, of trust and mistrust in a technology to which access in the first place is all but a given.
Political Ecology of Malaria – Emerging Dynamics of Wetland Agriculture at the Urban Fringe in Central Uganda
AvVan Soest, Matian
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
1 184 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 book provides a holistic picture of the malaria epidemic in central Uganda, revealing the highly localized character of an epidemic that once spanned across almost the entire globe. Understanding, and ultimately tackling the disease, requires an appreciation of the social, political, as well as ecological circumstances that frame this epidemic.
Strange Blood – The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in Nineteenth–Century Medicine and Beyond
AvBoel Berner
Häftad, Engelska, 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 because it meant crossing boundaries and challenging taboos. Was the transfusion of lamb blood into desperately sick humans really defensible?The book takes the reader on a journey into hospital wards and lunatic asylums, physiological laboratories and 19th century wars. It presents a fascinating story of medical knowledge, ambitions and concerns – a story that provides lessons for current debates on the morality of medical experimentation and care.
Narrating Experiences of Alzheimer's Through the Arts
Phenomenological and Existentialist Descriptions of the Living Body
AvAna Paula Barbosa-Fohrmann
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
890 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. The philosophical basis of this research is phenomenology from the end of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century, specifically that of Husserl and above all that of Merleau-Ponty. This work also draws on Proust's and Camus' literature as well as Beckett's dramaturgy.
Geistiges im Lebendigen
AvOttmar Leiß
Häftad, Tyska, 2025
574 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Männlichkeiten, neue Vaterschaft und Migration
AvJelena Leoni Olga Büchner
Häftad, Tyska, 2025
464 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Del 21 - Medical Humanities
Stereotypically Autistic?
Autism Portrayals in Young Adult Fiction
AvEva Charlotte Hesse
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
574 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
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 the lives of autistic individuals, and the controversy surrounding autism definition. She offers criteria for the evaluation of autism portrayals while also pointing out prejudices and underlying power structures in the light of new medical findings, thus providing a critical perspective on current developments within the autism discourse.
Infection and Injustice
Narrative Dimensions in the Representation of Pandemics
AvSilke Schicktanz,Andrew S. Grossm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
1 054 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
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 dwellers, vaccine sceptics, medical experts, factory workers, colonial administrators, colonial subjects, and fictional characters try to make sense of biological threats and their implications for social order, freedom, and solidarity. The figures who populate these factual and fictional stories agree on very little in terms of treatment and prevention, but they all have one thing in common: they deploy stories against the spread of disease.

Medical Humanities – serie

Visar alla böcker i serien Medical Humanities. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.

8 produkter

Kategorier

8 produkter

Making Diabetes – The Politics of Diabetes Diagnostics in Uganda
AvArlena Siobhan Liggins
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
427 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
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 examines how it contributes to the making of diabetes in contemporary Uganda. Arlena S. Liggins demonstrates that depending on who uses the glucometer, the outcomes may go far beyond diagnosis. The book draws a complex picture of hopes and misplaced expectations, of trust and mistrust in a technology to which access in the first place is all but a given.
Political Ecology of Malaria – Emerging Dynamics of Wetland Agriculture at the Urban Fringe in Central Uganda
AvVan Soest, Matian
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
1 184 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
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 book provides a holistic picture of the malaria epidemic in central Uganda, revealing the highly localized character of an epidemic that once spanned across almost the entire globe. Understanding, and ultimately tackling the disease, requires an appreciation of the social, political, as well as ecological circumstances that frame this epidemic.
Strange Blood – The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in Nineteenth–Century Medicine and Beyond
AvBoel Berner
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
330 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
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 because it meant crossing boundaries and challenging taboos. Was the transfusion of lamb blood into desperately sick humans really defensible?The book takes the reader on a journey into hospital wards and lunatic asylums, physiological laboratories and 19th century wars. It presents a fascinating story of medical knowledge, ambitions and concerns – a story that provides lessons for current debates on the morality of medical experimentation and care.
Narrating Experiences of Alzheimer's Through the Arts
Phenomenological and Existentialist Descriptions of the Living Body
AvAna Paula Barbosa-Fohrmann
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
890 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
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. The philosophical basis of this research is phenomenology from the end of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century, specifically that of Husserl and above all that of Merleau-Ponty. This work also draws on Proust's and Camus' literature as well as Beckett's dramaturgy.
Geistiges im Lebendigen
AvOttmar Leiß
Häftad, Tyska, 2025
574 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Männlichkeiten, neue Vaterschaft und Migration
AvJelena Leoni Olga Büchner
Häftad, Tyska, 2025
464 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Del 21 - Medical Humanities
Stereotypically Autistic?
Autism Portrayals in Young Adult Fiction
AvEva Charlotte Hesse
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
574 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
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 the lives of autistic individuals, and the controversy surrounding autism definition. She offers criteria for the evaluation of autism portrayals while also pointing out prejudices and underlying power structures in the light of new medical findings, thus providing a critical perspective on current developments within the autism discourse.
Infection and Injustice
Narrative Dimensions in the Representation of Pandemics
AvSilke Schicktanz,Andrew S. Grossm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
1 054 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
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 dwellers, vaccine sceptics, medical experts, factory workers, colonial administrators, colonial subjects, and fictional characters try to make sense of biological threats and their implications for social order, freedom, and solidarity. The figures who populate these factual and fictional stories agree on very little in terms of treatment and prevention, but they all have one thing in common: they deploy stories against the spread of disease.

Medical Humanities – serie

Making Diabetes – The Politics of Diabetes Diagnostics in Uganda

Political Ecology of Malaria – Emerging Dynamics of Wetland Agriculture at the Urban Fringe in Central Uganda

Strange Blood – The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in Nineteenth–Century Medicine and Beyond

Narrating Experiences of Alzheimer's Through the Arts

Geistiges im Lebendigen

Männlichkeiten, neue Vaterschaft und Migration

Stereotypically Autistic?

Infection and Injustice

Medical Humanities – serie

Making Diabetes – The Politics of Diabetes Diagnostics in Uganda

Political Ecology of Malaria – Emerging Dynamics of Wetland Agriculture at the Urban Fringe in Central Uganda

Strange Blood – The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in Nineteenth–Century Medicine and Beyond

Narrating Experiences of Alzheimer's Through the Arts

Geistiges im Lebendigen

Männlichkeiten, neue Vaterschaft und Migration

Stereotypically Autistic?

Infection and Injustice

Medical Humanities – serie

Making Diabetes – The Politics of Diabetes Diagnostics in Uganda

Political Ecology of Malaria – Emerging Dynamics of Wetland Agriculture at the Urban Fringe in Central Uganda

Strange Blood – The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in Nineteenth–Century Medicine and Beyond

Narrating Experiences of Alzheimer's Through the Arts

Geistiges im Lebendigen

Männlichkeiten, neue Vaterschaft und Migration

Stereotypically Autistic?

Infection and Injustice

Medical Humanities – serie

Making Diabetes – The Politics of Diabetes Diagnostics in Uganda

Political Ecology of Malaria – Emerging Dynamics of Wetland Agriculture at the Urban Fringe in Central Uganda

Strange Blood – The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in Nineteenth–Century Medicine and Beyond

Narrating Experiences of Alzheimer's Through the Arts

Geistiges im Lebendigen

Männlichkeiten, neue Vaterschaft und Migration

Stereotypically Autistic?

Infection and Injustice