A visitor has arrived in Tanjee with a strange accent, a quick sword, and glowing blue eyes. He is just beginning to assimilate himself into the local culture and develop a few friends when one evening, he is unintentionally caught in a magical crossfire. He is left with a dangerous and powerful artifact that he must somehow break down and destroy, even as those who wish to keep it whole seek to break down and destroy him. In the process he is reluctantly befriended by a small tehlian woman, who has good reason to feel that his entry into her life caused the complete destruction of her career...
A visitor has arrived in Tanjee with a strange accent, a quick sword, and glowing blue eyes. He is just beginning to assimilate himself into the local...
The social anthropology of sickness and health has always been concerned with religious cosmologies: how societies make sense of such issues as prediction and control of misfortune and fate; the malevolence of others; the benevolence (or otherwise) of the mystical world; local understanding and explanations of the natural and ultra-human worlds. This volume presents differing categorizations and conflicts that occur as people seek to make sense of suffering and their experiences. Cosmologies, whether incorporating the divine or as purely secular, lead us to interpret human action and the...
The social anthropology of sickness and health has always been concerned with religious cosmologies: how societies make sense of such issues as pr...
Such relationships are increasingly mediated through particular medical technologies, drawn together by the authors as `personal medical devices' (PMDs) - devices that are attached to, worn by, interacted with, or carried by individuals for the purposes of generating biomedical data and carrying out medical interventions on the person concerned.
Such relationships are increasingly mediated through particular medical technologies, drawn together by the authors as `personal medical devices' (PMD...
The intellectual and moral imperatives that underscore public health have sustained the idea that its fundamental scope is the study of human health, illness and suffering, and that these are self-evidently attributable to individuals and groups of people. This edited collection explores to what extent a shift towards more posthuman perspectives - where the status of the human as the obvious focus for our attention is de-stabilised - might catalyse complimentary or alternative accounts of common topics in public health. The collection argues that through this posthuman approach,...
The intellectual and moral imperatives that underscore public health have sustained the idea that its fundamental scope is the study of human
