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The Alzheimer Conundrum: Entanglements of Dementia and Aging
ISBN: 9780691168470 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Due to rapidly aging populations, the number of people worldwide experiencing dementia is increasing, and the projections are grim. Despite billions of dollars invested in medical research, no effective treatment has been discovered for Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia. The Alzheimer Conundrum exposes the predicaments embedded in current efforts to slow down or halt Alzheimer's disease through early detection of pre-symptomatic biological changes in healthy individuals. Based on a meticulous account of the history of Alzheimer's disease and extensive... Due to rapidly aging populations, the number of people worldwide experiencing dementia is increasing, and the projections are grim. Despite billion... |
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New Horizons in Medical Anthropology: Essays in Honour of Charles Leslie
ISBN: 9780415278065 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) "New Horizons in Medical Anthropology" is a cutting edge volume in honor of Charles Leslie, a highly respected medical anthropologist whose influential career has shaped this branch of anthropology as it is studied and theorized today. Written by former students and colleagues of Charles Leslie, this collection of papers deals with issues as diverse as AIDS and new medical technologies, therapy management and overpopulation, with case studies from Africa and Asia.
"New Horizons in Medical Anthropology" is a cutting edge volume in honor of Charles Leslie, a highly respected medical anthropologist whose influentia...
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Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies: Intersections of Inquiry
ISBN: 9780521655682 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This stimulating collection of essays, a product of a dialogue among anthropologists, sociologists, and philosopher-historians, focuses on the newly created biomedical technologies and their practical applications. Drawing on ethnographic and historical case studies, the authors show how biomedical technologies are produced through the agencies of tools and techniques, scientists and doctors, funding bodies, patients, and the public. Despite shared concerns, the authors achieve no consensus about their research objectives, and deep epistemological divides clearly remain, making for...
This stimulating collection of essays, a product of a dialogue among anthropologists, sociologists, and philosopher-historians, focuses on the newly c...
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The Alzheimer Conundrum: Entanglements of Dementia and Aging
ISBN: 9780691149783 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Due to rapidly aging populations, the number of people worldwide experiencing dementia is increasing, and the projections are grim. Despite billions of dollars invested in medical research, no effective treatment has been discovered for Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia. The Alzheimer Conundrum exposes the predicaments embedded in current efforts to slow down or halt Alzheimer's disease through early detection of pre-symptomatic biological changes in healthy individuals. Based on a meticulous account of the history of Alzheimer's disease and extensive... Due to rapidly aging populations, the number of people worldwide experiencing dementia is increasing, and the projections are grim. Despite billion... |
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New Horizons in Medical Anthropology: Essays in Honour of Charles Leslie
ISBN: 9780415277938 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) New Horizons in Medical Anthropology is a festschrift in honor of Charles Leslie whose influential career helped shape this subfield of anthropology. This collection of cutting-edge essays explores medical innovation and medical pluralism at the turn of the 21st century. The book accomplishes two things: it reflects recent research by medical anthropologists working in Asia who have been inspired by Charles Leslie's writing on such topics as medical pluralism and the early emergence of what has become a globalized biomedicine, the social relations of therapy management, and the...
New Horizons in Medical Anthropology is a festschrift in honor of Charles Leslie whose influential career helped shape this subfield of anthr...
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Beyond the Body Proper: Reading the Anthropology of Material Life
ISBN: 9780822338451 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Over the past several decades, scholars in both the social sciences and humanities have moved beyond the idea that there is a "body proper" a singular, discrete biological organism with an individual psyche. They have begun to perceive embodiment as dynamic rather than static, as experiences that vary over time and across the world as they are shaped by discourses, institutions, practices, technologies, and ideologies. What has emerged is a multiplicity of bodies, inviting a great many disciplinary points of view and modes of interpretation. The forty-seven readings presented in this volume...
Over the past several decades, scholars in both the social sciences and humanities have moved beyond the idea that there is a "body proper" a singular...
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Can Science Resolve the Nature / Nurture Debate?
ISBN: 9780745689968 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Following centuries of debate about "nature and nurture" the discovery of DNA established the idea that nature (genes) determines who we are, relegating nurture (environment) to icing on the cake.
Since the 1950s, the new science of epigenetics has demonstrated how cellular environments and certain experiences and behaviors influence gene expression at the molecular level, with significant implications for health and wellbeing. To the amazement of scientists, mapping the human genome indirectly supported these insights. Anthropologists Margaret Lock and Gisli Palsson outline... Following centuries of debate about "nature and nurture" the discovery of DNA established the idea that nature (genes) determines who we are, relegati...
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Can Science Resolve the Nature / Nurture Debate?
ISBN: 9780745689975 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Following centuries of debate about "nature and nurture" the discovery of DNA established the idea that nature (genes) determines who we are, relegating nurture (environment) to icing on the cake.
Since the 1950s, the new science of epigenetics has demonstrated how cellular environments and certain experiences and behaviors influence gene expression at the molecular level, with significant implications for health and wellbeing. To the amazement of scientists, mapping the human genome indirectly supported these insights. Anthropologists Margaret Lock and Gisli Palsson outline... Following centuries of debate about "nature and nurture" the discovery of DNA established the idea that nature (genes) determines who we are, relegati...
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Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death
ISBN: 9780520228146 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 441 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Tales about organ transplants appear in mythology and folk stories, and surface in documents from medieval times, but only during the past twenty years has medical knowledge and technology been sufficiently advanced for surgeons to perform thousands of transplants each year. In the majority of cases individuals diagnosed as "brain dead" are the source of the organs without which transplants could not take place. In this compelling and provocative examination, Margaret Lock traces the discourse over the past thirty years that contributed to the locating of a new criterion of death in the...
Tales about organ transplants appear in mythology and folk stories, and surface in documents from medieval times, but only during the past twenty year...
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Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America
ISBN: 9780520201620 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 439 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Margaret Lock explicitly compares Japanese and North American medical and political accounts of female middle age to challenge Western assumptions about menopause. She uses ethnography, interviews, statistics, historical and popular culture materials, and medical publications to produce a richly detailed account of Japanese women's lives. The result offers irrefutable evidence that the experience and meaningseven the endocrinological changesassociated with female midlife are far from universal. Rather, Lock argues, they are the product of an ongoing dialectic between culture and local...
Margaret Lock explicitly compares Japanese and North American medical and political accounts of female middle age to challenge Western assumptions abo...
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East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan: Varieties of Medical Experiencevolume 3
ISBN: 9780520052314 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) "An excellent description and analysis of East Asian medicine ... Based on fieldwork conducted in Japan during 1973 and 1974, which involved the use of a variecy of participant-observer techniques, as well as extensive reading in primary and secondary sources in Japanese and English, Lock's study makes a significant contribution to our understanding of an important dimension of life in Japan. . . In well-written chapters dealing with the philosophical foundations and historical development of East Asian medicine, Japanese attitudes regarding health, illness, and the human body, detailed...
"An excellent description and analysis of East Asian medicine ... Based on fieldwork conducted in Japan during 1973 and 1974, which involved the use o...
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Beyond the Body Proper: Reading the Anthropology of Material Life
ISBN: 9780822338307 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Over the past several decades, scholars in both the social sciences and humanities have moved beyond the idea that there is a "body proper" a singular, discrete biological organism with an individual psyche. They have begun to perceive embodiment as dynamic rather than static, as experiences that vary over time and across the world as they are shaped by discourses, institutions, practices, technologies, and ideologies. What has emerged is a multiplicity of bodies, inviting a great many disciplinary points of view and modes of interpretation. The forty-seven readings presented in this volume...
Over the past several decades, scholars in both the social sciences and humanities have moved beyond the idea that there is a "body proper" a singular...
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Pragmatic Women and Body Politics
ISBN: 9780521620994 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This thought-provoking volume explores women's responses to medical issues and technologies, from infertility in East Africa to prenatal screening in America. It also addresses wider themes, including the emergence of the breast cancer movement, and reactions to environmental hazards. In a series of accessible case studies, the contributors show that women react pragmatically to medical technology, with responses ranging from acceptance to resistance to indifference. This book will be a key text in medical anthropology and women's studies.
This thought-provoking volume explores women's responses to medical issues and technologies, from infertility in East Africa to prenatal screening in ...
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Biomedicine Examined
ISBN: 9781556080722 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 558 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The culture of contemporary medicine is the object of investigation in this book; the meanings and values implicit in biomedical knowledge and practice and the social processes through which they are produced are examined through the use of specific case studies. The essays provide examples of how various facets of 20th century medicine, including edu cation, research, the creation of medical knowledge, the development and application of technology, and day to day medical practice, are per vaded by a value system characteristic of an industrial-capitalistic view of the world in which the idea...
The culture of contemporary medicine is the object of investigation in this book; the meanings and values implicit in biomedical knowledge and practic...
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Pragmatic Women and Body Politics
ISBN: 9780521629294 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This thought-provoking volume explores women's responses to medical issues and technologies, from infertility in East Africa to prenatal screening in America. It also addresses wider themes, including the emergence of the breast cancer movement, and reactions to environmental hazards. In a series of accessible case studies, the contributors show that women react pragmatically to medical technology, with responses ranging from acceptance to resistance to indifference. This book will be a key text in medical anthropology and women's studies.
This thought-provoking volume explores women's responses to medical issues and technologies, from infertility in East Africa to prenatal screening in ...
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172,32 |
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