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The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Doctor
ISBN: 9780141992419 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The moving memoir of a doctor who became a family caregiver and learned why care is so central to all our lives
Beautiful and deeply moving. A truly extraordinary work that will change how we think about our lives and the society we live in Michael Puett, author of The Path When Dr Arthur Kleinman, an eminent Harvard psychiatrist and social anthropologist, began caring for his wife, Joan, after she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimers disease, he found just how far the act of caregiving extended beyond the boundaries of medicine. In The Soul of Care, he delivers a deeply inspiring... The moving memoir of a doctor who became a family caregiver and learned why care is so central to all our lives
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50,87 zł |
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What Really Matters: Living a Moral Life Amidst Uncertainty and Danger
ISBN: 9780195331325 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this moving and thought-provoking volume, Arthur Kleinman tells the unsettling stories of a handful of men and women, some of whom have lived through some of the most fundamental transitions of the turbulent twentieth century. Here we meet an American veteran of World War II, tortured by the memory of the atrocities he committed while a soldier in the Pacific. A French-American woman aiding refugees in sub-Saharan Africa, facing the utter chaos of a society where life has become meaningless. A Chinese doctor trying to stay alive during Mao's cultural revolution, discovering that the...
In this moving and thought-provoking volume, Arthur Kleinman tells the unsettling stories of a handful of men and women, some of whom have lived throu...
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119,27 zł |
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Culture and Depression: Studies in the Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Psychiatry of Affect and Disordervolume 16
ISBN: 9780520058835 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Some of the most innovative and provocative work on the emotions and illness is occurring in cross-cultural research on depression. Culture and Depression presents the work of anthropologists, psychiatrists, and psychologists who examine the controversies, agreements, and conceptual and methodological problems that arise in the course of such research. A book of enormous depth and breadth of discussion, Culture and Depression enriches the cross-cultural study of emotions and mental illness and leads it in new directions. It commences with a historical study followed by a series of...
Some of the most innovative and provocative work on the emotions and illness is occurring in cross-cultural research on depression. Culture and Depres...
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191,10 zł |
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Rethinking Psychiatry: From Cultural Category to Personal Experience
ISBN: 9780029174425 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this book, Leinman proposes an international view of mental illness and mental care. He examines how the prevalence and nature of disorders vary in different cultures, how clinicians make their diagnoses, and how they heal, and the educational and practical implications of a true understanding of the interplay between biology and culture.
In this book, Leinman proposes an international view of mental illness and mental care. He examines how the prevalence and nature of disorders vary in...
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101,01 zł |
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Writing at the Margin: Discourse Between Anthropology and Medicine
ISBN: 9780520209657 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. One of the most influential and creative scholars in medical anthropology takes stock of his recent intellectual odysseys in this collection of essays. Arthur Kleinman, an anthropologist and psychiatrist who has studied in Taiwan, China, and North America since 1968, draws upon his bicultural, multidisciplinary background to propose alternative strategies for thinking about how, in the postmodern world, the social and medical relate. Writing at the Margin explores the border between medical and social problems, the boundary between health and social change. Kleinman studies the...
One of the most influential and creative scholars in medical anthropology takes stock of his recent intellectual odysseys in this collection of essays...
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158,34 zł |
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Deep China: The Moral Life of the Person
ISBN: 9780520269446 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Deep China investigates the emotional and moral lives of the Chinese people as they adjust to the challenges of modernity. Sharing a medical anthropology and cultural psychiatry perspective, Arthur Kleinman, Yunxiang Yan, Jing Jun, Sing Lee, Everett Zhang, Pan Tianshu, Wu Fei, and Guo Jinhua delve into intimate and sometimes hidden areas of personal life and social practice to observe and narrate the drama of Chinese individualization. The essays explore the remaking of the moral person during China's profound social and economic transformation, unraveling the shifting practices and...
Deep China investigates the emotional and moral lives of the Chinese people as they adjust to the challenges of modernity. Sharing a medical an...
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421,86 zł |
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Sars in China: Prelude to Pandemic?
ISBN: 9780804753142 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The SARS epidemic of 2003 was one of the most serious public health crises of our times. The event, which lasted only a few months, is best seen as a warning shot, a wake-up call for public health professionals, security officials, economic planners, and policy makers everywhere. SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) is one of the "new" epidemics. SARS in China addresses the structure and impact of the epidemic and its short and medium range implications for an interconnected, globalized world. After initially stalling and prevaricating, the Chinese government managed to control...
The SARS epidemic of 2003 was one of the most serious public health crises of our times. The event, which lasted only a few months, is best seen as a ...
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103,69 zł |
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The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, And The Human Condition
ISBN: 9781541647121 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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114,39 zł |
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Sars in China: Prelude to Pandemic?
ISBN: 9780804753135 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The SARS epidemic of 2003 was one of the most serious public health crises of our times. The event, which lasted only a few months, is best seen as a warning shot, a wake-up call for public health professionals, security officials, economic planners, and policy makers everywhere. SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) is one of the "new" epidemics. SARS in China addresses the structure and impact of the epidemic and its short and medium range implications for an interconnected, globalized world. After initially stalling and prevaricating, the Chinese government managed to control...
The SARS epidemic of 2003 was one of the most serious public health crises of our times. The event, which lasted only a few months, is best seen as a ...
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430,52 zł |
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Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture: An Exploration of the Borderland Between Anthropology, Medicine, and Psychiatryvolume 5
ISBN: 9780520045118 / Angielski / Miękka / 1981 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From the Preface, by Arthur Kleinman: Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture presents a theoretical framework for studying the relationship between medicine, psychiatry, and culture. That framework is principally illustrated by materials gathered in field research in Taiwan and, to a lesser extent, from materials gathered in similar research in Boston. The reader will find this book contains a dialectical tension between two reciprocally related orientations: it is both a cross-cultural (largely anthropological) perspective on the essential components of clinical care and a clinical...
From the Preface, by Arthur Kleinman: Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture presents a theoretical framework for studying the relationship be...
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158,34 zł |
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Deep China: The Moral Life of the Person
ISBN: 9780520269453 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Deep China investigates the emotional and moral lives of the Chinese people as they adjust to the challenges of modernity. Sharing a medical anthropology and cultural psychiatry perspective, Arthur Kleinman, Yunxiang Yan, Jing Jun, Sing Lee, Everett Zhang, Pan Tianshu, Wu Fei, and Guo Jinhua delve into intimate and sometimes hidden areas of personal life and social practice to observe and narrate the drama of Chinese individualization. The essays explore the remaking of the moral person during China's profound social and economic transformation, unraveling the shifting practices and...
Deep China investigates the emotional and moral lives of the Chinese people as they adjust to the challenges of modernity. Sharing a medical an...
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186,81 zł |
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Governance of Life in Chinese Moral Experience : The Quest for an Adequate Life
ISBN: 9780415597180 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Between 1981 and 2004 China had the largest poverty reduction in human history. Along with the fast economic development, there has been great change to the ethos of Chinese society from sacrificing life for the revolutionary cause to valuing life itself.
Between 1981 and 2004 China had the largest poverty reduction in human history. Along with the fast economic development, there has been great change ...
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778,05 zł |
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Psychosocial Aspects of Depression
ISBN: 9781138984172 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Despite general agreement that psychosocial factors play an important role in various facets of the etiology, onset, treatment response and outcome of depressive disorders, the replicability of research results has left much to be desired. Because much of this unreliability has been attributed to variability in diagnostic criteria, this volume focuses on efforts to identify sources of variability in the definition and diagnosis of depressive disorders within Western society and cross-culturally. It also explicates the elusive role of aversive life events in the development and course of...
Despite general agreement that psychosocial factors play an important role in various facets of the etiology, onset, treatment response and outcome of...
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243,74 zł |
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Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices
ISBN: 9780822337294 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In some parts of the world spending on pharmaceuticals is astronomical. In others people do not have access to basic or life-saving drugs. Individuals struggle to afford medications; whole populations are neglected, considered too poor to constitute profitable markets for the development and distribution of necessary drugs. The ethnographies brought together in this timely collection analyze both the dynamics of the burgeoning international pharmaceutical trade and the global inequalities that emerge from and are reinforced by market-driven medicine. They demonstrate that questions about who...
In some parts of the world spending on pharmaceuticals is astronomical. In others people do not have access to basic or life-saving drugs. Individuals...
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461,64 zł |
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The Culture of Mental Illness and Psychiatric Practice in Africa
ISBN: 9780253012869 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In many African countries, mental health issues, including the burden of serious mental illness and trauma, have not been adequately addressed. These essays shed light on the treatment of common and chronic mental disorders, including mental illness and treatment in the current climate of economic and political instability, access to health care, access to medicines, and the impact of HIV-AIDS and other chronic illness on mental health. While problems are rampant and carry real and devastating consequences, this volume promotes an understanding of the African mental health landscape in... In many African countries, mental health issues, including the burden of serious mental illness and trauma, have not been adequately addressed. The... |
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404,04 zł |
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The Culture of Mental Illness and Psychiatric Practice in Africa
ISBN: 9780253012937 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In many African countries, mental health issues, including the burden of serious mental illness and trauma, have not been adequately addressed. These essays shed light on the treatment of common and chronic mental disorders, including mental illness and treatment in the current climate of economic and political instability, access to health care, access to medicines, and the impact of HIV-AIDS and other chronic illness on mental health. While problems are rampant and carry real and devastating consequences, this volume promotes an understanding of the African mental health landscape in... In many African countries, mental health issues, including the burden of serious mental illness and trauma, have not been adequately addressed. The... |
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152,83 zł |
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Underbelly: Childhood Diarrhea and the Hidden Local Realities of Global Health
ISBN: 9780262547765 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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218,93 zł |
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Psychosocial Aspects of Depression
ISBN: 9780805800791 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Despite general agreement that psychosocial factors play an important role in various facets of the etiology, onset, treatment response and outcome of depressive disorders, the replicability of research results has left much to be desired. Because much of this unreliability has been attributed to variability in diagnostic criteria, this volume focuses on efforts to identify sources of variability in the definition and diagnosis of depressive disorders within Western society and cross-culturally. It also explicates the elusive role of aversive life events in the development and course of...
Despite general agreement that psychosocial factors play an important role in various facets of the etiology, onset, treatment response and outcome of...
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674,31 zł |
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Rethinking the Human
ISBN: 9780945454441 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this volume, world-class scholars from religious studies, the humanities, and the social sciences explore what it means to be human through a multiplicity of lives in time and place as different as fourth-century BCE China and the world of an Alzheimer patient today.
In this volume, world-class scholars from religious studies, the humanities, and the social sciences explore what it means to be human through a multi...
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76,17 zł |
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