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COVID-19 Syndemics and the Global South
A World Divided
Av Inayat Ali, Merrill Singer m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
725 kr
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This book focuses on syndemics in the Global South and uses COVID‑19 as a window to understand clusters of disparities and disease comorbidities. The pandemic has exposed and multiplied structural inequalities and certain subpopulations were more exposed to COVID‑19 as well as experienced greater …
Haemophilia in Aotearoa New Zealand
More Than A Bleeding Nuisance
Av Julie Park, Kathryn Scott m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2586 kr
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Haemophilia in Aotearoa New Zealand provides a richly detailed analysis of the experience of the bleeding disorder of haemophilia based on longterm ethnographic research. The chapters consider experiences of diagnosis; how parents, children, and adults care and integrate medical routines into …
amaXhosa Circumcision
Stories of Manhood and Mental Health
Inbunden, 2021
2744 kr
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This book investigates amaXhosa circumcision and the psychological processes involved. Lauraine Vivian employs concepts such as resilience, orthodoxy, broken men, and reciprocity to examine the experiences of men who have developed mental health issues in relation to their initiation into manhood. …
Affective Health and Masculinities in South Africa
An Ethnography of (In)vulnerability
Inbunden, 2020
2504 kr
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Affective Health and Masculinities in South Africa explores how different masculinities modulate substance use, interpersonal violence, suicidality, and AIDS as well as recovery cross-culturally.With a focus on three male protagonists living in very distinct urban areas of Cape Town, this …
Actively Dying
The Creation of Muslim Identities through End-of-Life Care in the United States
Inbunden, 2020
2504 kr
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This book explores the experiences of Muslims in the United States as they interact with the health care system during serious illness and end-of-life care. It shifts "actively dying" from a medical phrase used to describe patients who are expected to pass away soon or who exhibit signs of …
Childlessness in Bangladesh
Intersectionality, Suffering and Resilience
Inbunden, 2021
2504 kr
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This book examines the intersectionality and stratified lived experience of rural poor and urban middle-class childless women in Bangladesh.Childless women in Bangladesh, an over-populated country where fertility control is the primary focus of health policy, are all but non-existent. Papreen Nahar …
Childlessness in Bangladesh
Intersectionality, Suffering and Resilience
Häftad, 2023
646 kr
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This book examines the intersectionality and stratified lived experience of rural poor and urban middle-class childless women in Bangladesh.Childless women in Bangladesh, an over-populated country where fertility control is the primary focus of health policy, are all but non-existent. Papreen Nahar …
Anthropology of Epidemics
Av Ann H. Kelly, Frédéric Keck m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
755 kr
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Over the past decades, infectious disease epidemics have come to increasingly pose major global health challenges to humanity. The Anthropology of Epidemics approaches epidemics as total social phenomena: processes and events which encompass and exercise a transformational impact on social life …
Diagnosis Narratives and the Healing Ritual in Western Medicine
Av James Meza
Häftad, 2020
725 kr
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The dominance of "illness narratives" in narrative healing studies has tended to mean that the focus centers around the healing of the individual. Meza proposes that this emphasis is misplaced and the true focus of cultural healing should lie in managing the disruption of disease and death …
Depression in Kerala
Ayurveda and Mental Health Care in 21st Century India
Av Claudia Lang
Häftad, 2020
704 kr
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This book examines depression as a widely diagnosed and treated common mental disorder in India and offers a significant ethnographic study of the application of a traditional Indian medical system (Ayurveda) to the very modern problem of depression. Based on over a year of fieldwork, it …
Wandering the Wards
An Ethnography of Hospital Care and its Consequences for People Living with Dementia
Av Katie Featherstone, Andy Northcott
Häftad, 2022
725 kr
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Wandering the Wards provides a detailed and unflinching ethnographic examination of life within the contemporary hospital. It reveals the institutional and ward cultures that inform the organisation and delivery of everyday care for one of the largest populations within them: people living with …
Treating Heroin Addiction in Norway
The Pharmaceutical Other
Inbunden, 2021
2578 kr
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Focusing on the world of Norwegian Opioid Substitution Treatment (OST) in the aftermath of significant reforms, this book casts a critical light on the intersections between medicine and law, and the ideologies infusing the notions of "individual choice" and "patient involvement" in the field of …
Treating Heroin Addiction in Norway
The Pharmaceutical Other
Häftad, 2023
646 kr
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Focusing on the world of Norwegian Opioid Substitution Treatment (OST) in the aftermath of significant reforms, this book casts a critical light on the intersections between medicine and law, and the ideologies infusing the notions of "individual choice" and "patient involvement" in the field of …
Haemophilia in Aotearoa New Zealand
More Than A Bleeding Nuisance
Av Julie Park, Kathryn Scott m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
755 kr
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Haemophilia in Aotearoa New Zealand provides a richly detailed analysis of the experience of the bleeding disorder of haemophilia based on longterm ethnographic research. The chapters consider experiences of diagnosis; how parents, children, and adults care and integrate medical routines into …
Medical Materialities
Toward a Material Culture of Medical Anthropology
Av Aaron Parkhurst, Timothy Carroll
Häftad, 2020
733 kr
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Medical Materialities investigates possible points of cross-fertilisation between medical anthropology and material culture studies, and considers the successes and limitations of both sub-disciplines as they attempt to understand places, practices, methods, and cultures of healing. The editors …
Actively Dying
The Creation of Muslim Identities through End-of-Life Care in the United States
Häftad, 2022
704 kr
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This book explores the experiences of Muslims in the United States as they interact with the health care system during serious illness and end-of-life care. It shifts "actively dying" from a medical phrase used to describe patients who are expected to pass away soon or who exhibit signs of …
amaXhosa Circumcision
Stories of Manhood and Mental Health
Häftad, 2023
646 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book investigates amaXhosa circumcision and the psychological processes involved. Lauraine Vivian employs concepts such as resilience, orthodoxy, broken men, and reciprocity to examine the experiences of men who have developed mental health issues in relation to their initiation into manhood. …
Negotiating the Pandemic
Cultural, National, and Individual Constructions of COVID-19
Av Inayat Ali, Robbie Davis-Floyd
Inbunden, 2022
2504 kr
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This book centers on negotiations around cultural, governmental, and individual constructions of COVID-19. It considers how the coronavirus pandemic has been negotiated in different cultures and countries, with the final part of the volume focusing on South Asia and Pakistan in particular. The …
Negotiating the Pandemic
Cultural, National, and Individual Constructions of COVID-19
Av Inayat Ali, Robbie Davis-Floyd
Häftad, 2023
665 kr
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This book centers on negotiations around cultural, governmental, and individual constructions of COVID-19. It considers how the coronavirus pandemic has been negotiated in different cultures and countries, with the final part of the volume focusing on South Asia and Pakistan in particular. The …
Locating Zika
Social Change and Governance in an Age of Mosquito Pandemics
Häftad, 2021
727 kr
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The emergence of Zika virus in 2015 challenged conventional ideas of mosquito-borne diseases, tested the resilience of health systems and embedded itself within local sociocultural worlds, with major implications for environmental, sexual, reproductive and paediatric health. This book explores this …
Contesting Measles and Vaccination in Pakistan
Cultural Beliefs, Structured Vulnerabilities, Mistrust, and Geo-Politics
Av Inayat Ali
Inbunden, 2024
2586 kr
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This book explores issues surrounding measles and vaccination in Pakistan. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research, it focuses on two major outbreaks in Sindh Province and on Pakistan’s vaccination campaigns. The chapters examine the responses to outbreaks and vaccination from various …
Contesting Measles and Vaccination in Pakistan
Cultural Beliefs, Structured Vulnerabilities, Mistrust, and Geo-Politics
Av Inayat Ali
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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This book explores issues surrounding measles and vaccination in Pakistan. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research, it focuses on two major outbreaks in Sindh Province and on Pakistan’s vaccination campaigns. The chapters examine the responses to outbreaks and vaccination from various …
Affective Health and Masculinities in South Africa
An Ethnography of (In)vulnerability
Häftad, 2021
684 kr
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Affective Health and Masculinities in South Africa explores how different masculinities modulate substance use, interpersonal violence, suicidality, and AIDS as well as recovery cross-culturally.With a focus on three male protagonists living in very distinct urban areas of Cape Town, this …
Living with Diabetes and Uncertainty in Cairo
Sweetness Under Pressure
Inbunden, 2023
2578 kr
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Living with Diabetes and Uncertainty in Cairo offers an ethnographic exploration of the interactions of two different understandings of type-2 diabetes: one related to the notion of ḍaghṭ, translated as “pressure” or “stress,” and another related primarily to obesity. The book is set in Egypt but …
Living with Diabetes and Uncertainty in Cairo
Sweetness Under Pressure
Häftad, 2024
665 kr
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Living with Diabetes and Uncertainty in Cairo offers an ethnographic exploration of the interactions of two different understandings of type-2 diabetes: one related to the notion of ḍaghṭ, translated as “pressure” or “stress,” and another related primarily to obesity. The book is set in Egypt but …
COVID-19 Syndemics and the Global South
A World Divided
Av Inayat Ali, Merrill Singer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
2578 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book focuses on syndemics in the Global South and uses COVID‑19 as a window to understand clusters of disparities and disease comorbidities. The pandemic has exposed and multiplied structural inequalities and certain subpopulations were more exposed to COVID‑19 as well as experienced greater …
Constructing the Pandemic in Pakistan
Competing Perceptions, Politics, and Structured Disparities during COVID-19
Av Inayat Ali
Inbunden, 2025
2578 kr
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With a focus on the way the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic unfolded in Pakistan, this book casts a critical light on the unique experiences and responses of individuals, community and government. It critically examines how these diverse actors made sense of and navigated the outbreak …
Breathlessness and Biosociality
An Ethnographic Perspective on Living with Lung Disease in Later Life
Inbunden, 2024
2586 kr
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This book delves into the intricate landscape of respiratory diseases among older people, shedding light on their biosocial encounters while grappling with chronic breathlessness. While respiratory ailments predominantly afflict older people, often stemming from lifestyle choices like smoking, …
Breathlessness and Biosociality
An Ethnographic Perspective on Living with Lung Disease in Later Life
Häftad, 2026
725 kr
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This book delves into the intricate landscape of respiratory diseases among older people, shedding light on their biosocial encounters while grappling with chronic breathlessness. While respiratory ailments predominantly afflict older people, often stemming from lifestyle choices like smoking, …
Discretionary Medicine in Pakistan
Poverty, Coloniality and Health
Inbunden, 2024
2197 kr
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This book uses the notion of “discretionary medicine” to explore the landscape of contemporary healthcare in Pakistan. It considers how patients frequently experience health interventions as out of touch with the suffering of everyday life and how healthcare provisions are viewed as intrusive, …
