wyszukanych pozycji: 29
America's Arab Refugees: Vulnerability and Health on the Margins
ISBN: 9781503603875 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. America's Arab Refugees is a timely examination of the world's worst refugee crisis since World War II. Tracing the history of Middle Eastern wars--especially the U.S. military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan--to the current refugee crisis, Marcia C. Inhorn examines how refugees fare once resettled in America. In the U.S., Arabs are challenged by discrimination, poverty, and various forms of vulnerability. Inhorn shines a spotlight on the plight of resettled Arab refugees in the ethnic enclave community of "Arab Detroit," Michigan. Sharing in the poverty of Detroit's... America's Arab Refugees is a timely examination of the world's worst refugee crisis since World War II. Tracing the history of Middle Easter... |
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110,13 zł |
Infertility Around the Globe: New Thinking on Childlessness, Gender, and Reproductive Technologies
ISBN: 9780520231375 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 355 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This exceptional collection of essays breaks new ground by examining the global impact of infertility as a major reproductive health issue, one that has profoundly affected the lives of countless women and men. Based on original research by seventeen internationally acclaimed social scientists, it is the first book to investigate the use of reproductive technologies in non-Western countries. Provocative and incisive, it is the most substantial work to date on the subject of infertility. With infertility as the lens through which a wide range of social issues is explored, the contributors...
This exceptional collection of essays breaks new ground by examining the global impact of infertility as a major reproductive health issue, one that h...
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208,43 zł |
Reconceiving the Second Sex: Men, Masculinity, and Reproduction
ISBN: 9781845454739 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. ..".an overdue first step in recognizing that men's role in contemporary human reproduction - from their gametes to their psyches - has been a neglected realm of scientific and scholarly pursuit." - Robert D. Nachtigall, M.D., Institute for Health and Aging, University of California, San Francisco
Extensive social science research, particularly by anthropologists, has explored women's reproductive lives, their use of reproductive technologies, and their experiences as mothers and nurturers of children. Meanwhile, few if any volumes have explored men's reproductive concerns or... ..".an overdue first step in recognizing that men's role in contemporary human reproduction - from their gametes to their psyches - has been a neglect...
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167,63 zł |
Reconceiving the Second Sex: Men, Masculinity, and Reproduction
ISBN: 9781845454722 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Extensive social science research, particularly by anthropologists, has explored women's reproductive lives, their use of reproductive technologies, and their experiences as mothers and nurturers of children. Meanwhile, few if any volumes have explored men's reproductive concerns or contributions to women's reproductive health: Men are clearly viewed as the "second sex" in reproduction. This volume argues that the marginalization of men is an oversight of considerable proportions. It sheds new light on male reproduction from a cross-cultural, global perspective, focusing not only upon men... Extensive social science research, particularly by anthropologists, has explored women's reproductive lives, their use of reproductive technologie... |
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561,41 zł |
Motherhood on Ice: The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze Their Eggs
ISBN: 9781479813049 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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125,87 zł |
Reproductive Disruptions: Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millennium
ISBN: 9781845454067 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Nominated for the 2007 Book Prize by the Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (AAA) Reproductive disruptions, such as infertility, pregnancy loss, adoption, and childhood disability, are among the most distressing experiences in people's lives. Based on research by leading medical anthropologists from around the world, this book examines such issues as local practices detrimental to safe pregnancy and birth; conflicting reproductive goals between women and men; miscommunications between pregnant women and their genetic counselors; cultural anxieties over gamete donation... Nominated for the 2007 Book Prize by the Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (AAA) Reproductive disruptions, such as infertili... |
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519,44 zł |
Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Histories, Activisms, and Futures
ISBN: 9780822352709 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In this important collection, prominent scholars who helped to establish medical anthropology as an area of study reflect on the field's past, present, and future. In doing so, they demonstrate that medical anthropology has developed dynamically, through its intersections with activism, with other subfields in anthropology, and with disciplines as varied as public health, the biosciences, and studies of race and ethnicity. Each of the contributors addresses one or more of these intersections. Some trace the evolution of medical anthropology in relation to fields including feminist...
In this important collection, prominent scholars who helped to establish medical anthropology as an area of study reflect on the field's past, present...
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132,50 zł |
Cosmopolitan Conceptions: IVF Sojourns in Global Dubai
ISBN: 9780822359135 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In their desperate quest for conception, thousands of infertile couples from around the world travel to the global in vitro fertilization (IVF) hub of Dubai. In Cosmopolitan Conceptions Marcia C. Inhorn highlights the stories of 220 "reprotravelers" from fifty countries who sought treatment at a "cosmopolitan" IVF clinic in Dubai. These couples cannot find safe, affordable, legal, and effective IVF services in their home countries, and their stories offer a window into the world of infertility--a world that is replete with pain, fear, danger, frustration, and financial burden. These...
In their desperate quest for conception, thousands of infertile couples from around the world travel to the global in vitro fertilization (IVF) hub of...
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524,69 zł |
New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities & Islam in the Middle E
ISBN: 9780691148892 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Middle Eastern Muslim men have been widely vilified as terrorists, religious zealots, and brutal oppressors of women. The New Arab Man challenges these stereotypes with the stories of ordinary Middle Eastern men as they struggle to overcome infertility and childlessness through assisted reproduction. Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research across the Middle East with hundreds of men from a variety of social and religious backgrounds, Marcia Inhorn shows how the new Arab man is self-consciously rethinking the patriarchal masculinity of his forefathers and unseating... Middle Eastern Muslim men have been widely vilified as terrorists, religious zealots, and brutal oppressors of women. The New Arab Man chall... |
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231,97 zł |
Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility, and Egyptian Medical Traditions
ISBN: 9780812215281 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In Quest for Conception, Marcia C. Inhorn portrays the poignant struggles of poor, urban Egyptian women and their attempts to overcome infertility. The author draws upon fifteen months of fieldwork in urban Egypt to present moving stories of infertile Muslim women whose tumultuous medical pilgrimages - or their "search for children," as they call their quests for conception - have yet to produce the desired pregnancies. Inhorn examines the devastating impact of infertility on the lives of these women, who are threatened with divorce by their husbands, harassed by their husbands' families, and...
In Quest for Conception, Marcia C. Inhorn portrays the poignant struggles of poor, urban Egyptian women and their attempts to overcome infertility. Th...
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171,21 zł |
Local Babies, Global Science: Gender, Religion, and in Vitro Fertilization in Egypt
ISBN: 9780415944175 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the late 1990s, Egypt experienced a boom period in in vitro fertilization (IVF) technology and now boasts more IVF clinics than neighboring Israel. In this book, Marcia Inhorn writes of her fieldwork among affluent, elite couples who sought in vitro fertilization in Egypt, a country which is not only at the forefront of IVF technology in the Middle East, but also a center of Islamic education in the region. Inhorn examines the gender, scientific, religious and cultural ramifications of the transfer of IVF technology from Euro-American points of origin to Egypt - showing how cultural... In the late 1990s, Egypt experienced a boom period in in vitro fertilization (IVF) technology and now boasts more IVF clinics than neighboring Isra... |
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209,82 zł |
Infertility and Patriarchy
ISBN: 9780812214246 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Infertility and Patriarchy explores the lives of infertile women whose personal stories depict their daily struggles to resist disempowerment and stigmatization. Marcia C. Inhorn has produced a unique study of gender, politics, and family life in contemporary Egypt. Infertility and Patriarchy explores the lives of infertile women whose personal stories depict their daily struggles to resist disempowermen... |
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154,59 zł |
Cosmopolitan Conceptions: IVF Sojourns in Global Dubai
ISBN: 9780822359333 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In their desperate quest for conception, thousands of infertile couples from around the world travel to the global in vitro fertilization (IVF) hub of Dubai. In Cosmopolitan Conceptions Marcia C. Inhorn highlights the stories of 220 "reprotravelers" from fifty countries who sought treatment at a "cosmopolitan" IVF clinic in Dubai. These couples cannot find safe, affordable, legal, and effective IVF services in their home countries, and their stories offer a window into the world of infertility--a world that is replete with pain, fear, danger, frustration, and financial burden. These...
In their desperate quest for conception, thousands of infertile couples from around the world travel to the global in vitro fertilization (IVF) hub of...
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125,87 zł |
Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Histories, Activisms, and Futures
ISBN: 9780822352518 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In this important collection, prominent scholars who helped to establish medical anthropology as an area of study reflect on the field's past, present, and future. In doing so, they demonstrate that medical anthropology has developed dynamically, through its intersections with activism, with other subfields in anthropology, and with disciplines as varied as public health, the biosciences, and studies of race and ethnicity. Each of the contributors addresses one or more of these intersections. Some trace the evolution of medical anthropology in relation to fields including feminist...
In this important collection, prominent scholars who helped to establish medical anthropology as an area of study reflect on the field's past, present...
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491,55 zł |
Local Babies, Global Science: Gender, Religion and in Vitro Fertilization in Egypt
ISBN: 9780415944168 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the late 1990s, Egypt experienced a boom period in in vitro fertilization (IVF) technology and now boasts more IVF clinics than neighboring Israel. In this book, Marcia Inhorn writes of her fieldwork among affluent, elite couples who sought in vitro fertilization in Egypt, a country which is not only at the forefront of IVF technology in the Middle East, but also a center of Islamic education in the region. Inhorn examines the gender, scientific, religious and cultural ramifications of the transfer of IVF technology from Euro-American points of origin to Egypt - showing how cultural ideas...
In the late 1990s, Egypt experienced a boom period in in vitro fertilization (IVF) technology and now boasts more IVF clinics than neighboring Israel....
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708,33 zł |
Reproductive Disruptions: Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millennium
ISBN: 9781845455958 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Reproductive disruptions, such as infertility, pregnancy loss, adoption, and childhood disability, are among the most distressing experiences in people's lives. Based on research by leading medical anthropologists from around the world, this book examines such issues as local practices detrimental to safe pregnancy and birth; conflicting reproductive goals between women and men; miscommunications between pregnant women and their genetic counselors; cultural anxieties over gamete donation and adoption; the contested meanings of abortion; cultural critiques of hormone replacement therapy; and...
Reproductive disruptions, such as infertility, pregnancy loss, adoption, and childhood disability, are among the most distressing experiences in peopl...
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146,65 zł |
Islam and Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Sunni and Shia Perspectives
ISBN: 9780857454904 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. How and to what extent have Islamic legal scholars and Middle Eastern lawmakers, as well as Middle Eastern Muslim physicians and patients, grappled with the complex bioethical, legal, and social issues that are raised in the process of attempting to conceive life in the face of infertility? This path-breaking volume explores the influence of Islamic attitudes on Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) and reveals the variations in both the Islamic jurisprudence and the cultural responses to ARTs. How and to what extent have Islamic legal scholars and Middle Eastern lawmakers, as well as Middle Eastern Muslim physicians and patients, grapple... |
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561,41 zł |
Arab Masculinities: Anthropological Reconceptions in Precarious Times
ISBN: 9780253058928 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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325,30 zł |
Arab Masculinities: Anthropological Reconceptions in Precarious Times
ISBN: 9780253058911 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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125,87 zł |
America's Arab Refugees: Vulnerability and Health on the Margins
ISBN: 9780804786393 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. America's Arab Refugees is a timely examination of the world's worst refugee crisis since World War II. Tracing the history of Middle Eastern wars-especially the U.S. military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan-to the current refugee crisis, Marcia C. Inhorn examines how refugees fare once resettled in America. In the U.S., Arabs are challenged by discrimination, poverty, and various forms of vulnerability. Inhorn shines a spotlight on the plight of resettled Arab refugees in the ethnic enclave community of "Arab Detroit," Michigan. Sharing in the poverty of Detroit's Black...
America's Arab Refugees is a timely examination of the world's worst refugee crisis since World War II. Tracing the history of Middle Eastern wars-esp...
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480,50 zł |