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Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis
ISBN: 9781479887040 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Watch Georgiann Davis in National Geographic's Gender Revolution documentary with Katie Couric A personal, compelling perspective on how medical diagnoses can profoundly hurt, or help, the lived experiences of entire communities Winner, 2016 Donald Light Award for the Applied or Public Practice of Medical Sociology, presented by the American Sociological Association
When sociologist Georgiann Davis was a teenager, her doctors discovered that she possessed XY chromosomes, marking her as intersex. Rather than share this information with... Watch Georgiann Davis in National Geographic's Gender Revolution documentary with Katie Couric A personal, compelling perspective on ...
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Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
ISBN: 9781620402528 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the NBCC Award for General Nonfiction Winner of the NBCC Award for General Nonfiction |
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65,37 |
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Ethics, Moral Life and the Body: Sociological Perspectives
ISBN: 9781137312587 / Angielski / Twarda / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shaw addresses the 'ethical turn' in contemporary sociological thinking, by exploring the contribution of sociology and the social sciences to bioethical debates about morality and tissue exchange practices.
Shaw addresses the 'ethical turn' in contemporary sociological thinking, by exploring the contribution of sociology and the social sciences to bioethi...
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201,24 |
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Inquiring Into Human Enhancement: Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives
ISBN: 9781137530066 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Human enhancement has become a major concern in debates about the future of contemporary societies. This interdisciplinary book is devoted to clarifying the underlying ambiguities of these debates, and to proposing novel ways of exploring what human enhancement means and understanding what practices, goals and justifications it entails.
Human enhancement has become a major concern in debates about the future of contemporary societies. This interdisciplinary book is devoted to clarifyi...
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201,24 |
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The Social History of Smoking
ISBN: 9781512289213 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first attempt to write the history of smoking in this country from the social point of view. There have been many books written about tobacco--F.W. Fairholt's "History of Tobacco," 1859, and the "Tobacco" (1857) of Andrew Steinmetz, are still valuable authorities--but hitherto no one has told the story of the fluctuations of fashion in respect of the practice of smoking.
This is the first attempt to write the history of smoking in this country from the social point of view. There have been many books written about toba...
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Globalization and Transnational Surrogacy in India: Outsourcing Life
ISBN: 9781498525206 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From computer support and hotel reservations to laboratory results and radiographic interpretations, it seems everything can be outsourced in our globalized world. One would not think so with parenthood, however, especially motherhood, as it is a fundamental activity humans have historically preserved as personal and private. In our modern age, however, the advent and accessibility of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) and the ease with which they have traversed global borders, has fundamentally altered the meaning of childbearing and parenting. In the twenty-first century, parenthood...
From computer support and hotel reservations to laboratory results and radiographic interpretations, it seems everything can be outsourced in our glob...
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A Clean Bill of Health: Restoring American Medical Exceptionalism
ISBN: 9780692373415 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Millions of Americans believed that our healthcare system was broken and needed to be repaired, but believed that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was not the right solution, only the beginning of a host of new problems. Now that it has been passed, and many of its provisions are known, most Americans have lined up against the new law but are uncertain about and afraid of what is coming next. Is it too late to repeal the ACA? What would we replace it with? The effects of the ACA on our healthcare system has been devastating, as author, Myles Saunders, MD, breaks it down for us. Foremost in our...
Millions of Americans believed that our healthcare system was broken and needed to be repaired, but believed that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was no...
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The Psychosocial Aspects of a Deadly Epidemic: What Ebola Has Taught Us about Holistic Healing
ISBN: 9781440842306 / Angielski / Twarda / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While the devastating Ebola epidemic has been contained, the effects of this outbreak referred to by the World Health Organization as "the most severe acute public health emergency seen in modern times" have wreaked a tremendous emotional toll on the populations of West Africa as well as on families and survivors worldwide. This groundbreaking book covers the psychosocial needs, programs, and policies related to the Ebola epidemic and examines broader lessons of the outbreak, such as changes in the ways in which healing from future epidemics can be handled. Edited by Judy... While the devastating Ebola epidemic has been contained, the effects of this outbreak referred to by the World Health Organization as "the most sev... |
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257,78 |
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The Garbage Menace
ISBN: 9789768142764 / Angielski / Miękka / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Garbage Menace ̶ what is it, how is it hazardous, what can we do about it? The Garbage Menace is the first book in Footprint: A Belizean Environmental Series aimed at enlightening Belizeans about the issues affecting their health and environment. It shakes you to your foundations at first, and leaves you wondering if all is lost. The book then ends with loads of ideas about how we can make our country, and the world, a better place to live. It is easy reading with cartoons by the author.
The Garbage Menace ̶ what is it, how is it hazardous, what can we do about it? The Garbage Menace is the first book in Footprint: A Belizean Envi...
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57,80 |
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Critiquing Personality Disorder: A Social Perspective
ISBN: 9781909330818 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In order to work effectively with people with personality disorders, it is important that Mental Health Social Workers (MHSWs) have a clear understanding of trauma and its impact on the person. It is also important that they have good relational skills, along with the support of the team and organization. Drawing on an analysis of the similarities (and differences) in service user and MHSWs' perspectives, this book outlines the further skills, knowledge, and conditions that will help them to make a more effective contribution to the support of those with personality disorder. The book will...
In order to work effectively with people with personality disorders, it is important that Mental Health Social Workers (MHSWs) have a clear understand...
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The Nurses: A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital
ISBN: 9780761189251 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A New York Times bestseller. "A funny, intimate, and often jaw-dropping account of life behind the scenes."--People A New York Times bestseller. "A funny, intimate, and often jaw-dropping account of life behind the scenes."--People |
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The Ebola Virus and West Africa: Medical and Sociocultural Aspects
ISBN: 9781491771303 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Ebola Virus and West Africa: Medical and Sociocultural Aspects provides a compact summary of the Ebola virus, outlining its nature, history, epidemiology, and methods of treatment. In addition, the work examines the context of the disease's outbreak by describing the people, politics, and policies in West Africa before, during, and after the recent outbreak. Finally, chapters summarize and explore the ethical issues that arise in pursuing treatments and discuss methods for improving control and prevention of additional outbreaks. Dr. Felix I. Ikuomola, a medical doctor... The Ebola Virus and West Africa: Medical and Sociocultural Aspects provides a compact summary of the Ebola virus, outlining its nature, hist... |
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Inquiring Into Animal Enhancement: Model or Countermodel of Human Enhancement?
ISBN: 9781137542465 / Angielski / Twarda / 137 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores issues raised by past and present practices of animal enhancement in terms of their means and their goals, clarifies conceptual issues and identifies lessons that can be learned about enhancement practices, as they concern both animals and humans.
This book explores issues raised by past and present practices of animal enhancement in terms of their means and their goals, clarifies conceptual iss...
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201,24 |
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Mental Health, Crime and Criminal Justice: Responses and Reforms
ISBN: 9781137453877 / Angielski / Miękka / 301 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a solution-focused response to the debates around youth and adult mentally disordered offenders. It draws on the knowledge and experience of academics and professionals who constructively explore ways to integrate research evidence and practitioner knowledge into current and future initiatives.
This book offers a solution-focused response to the debates around youth and adult mentally disordered offenders. It draws on the knowledge and experi...
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Publics and Their Health Systems: Rethinking Participation
ISBN: 9781137467164 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stewart draws on a case study of Scotland's NHS to argue that debates about citizen participation in health systems are disproportionately dominated by techniques of invited participation. Rethinking participation takes us into the realms of representative democracy, contentious protest politics and individual citizens' micro-level tactics.
Stewart draws on a case study of Scotland's NHS to argue that debates about citizen participation in health systems are disproportionately dominated b...
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Organs for Sale: An Ethnographic Examination of the International Organ Trade
ISBN: 9781137539847 / Angielski / Twarda / 117 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, Susanne Lundin explores the murky world of organ trade. She tracks exploited farm workers in Moldova, prosecutors in Israel and surgeons in the Philippines. Utilizing unique source material she depicts a rapidly growing organ market characterized by both advanced medical technology and human trafficking.
In this book, Susanne Lundin explores the murky world of organ trade. She tracks exploited farm workers in Moldova, prosecutors in Israel and surgeons...
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Disease and Discrimination: Poverty and Pestilence in Colonial Atlantic America
ISBN: 9780813062693 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Fascinating yet sobering, this volume highlights the important role that social and political causes of poverty and poor living conditions, beyond the presence of infectious pathogens themselves, play in disease epidemics and high mortality.---Megan A. Perry, editor of Bioarchaeology and Behavior: The People of the Ancient Near East
-Hutchinson effectively argues that disease is not an event but a process and then wonderfully illustrates how the interaction of culture and illness shaped the history of the eastern seaboard from the sixteenth through the nineteenth... -Fascinating yet sobering, this volume highlights the important role that social and political causes of poverty and poor living conditions, beyond th...
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The Behavioral Health Specialist in Primary Care: Skills for Integrated Practice
ISBN: 9780826129871 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Patients with chronic conditions often need psychosocial support and brief counseling to help them make the lifestyle and behavioral changes required to prevent disease complications. This innovative text, with contributions from respected clinicians and researchers in all arenas of behavioral health, provides comprehensive training for all health professionals√>=including those in medicine, nursing, social work, mental health, and clinical and health psychology√>=who desire targeted evidence-based training in behavioral health skills. Rich case examples drawn from typical... Patients with chronic conditions often need psychosocial support and brief counseling to help them make the lifestyle and behavioral changes requir... |
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Politics in the Making of Hiv/AIDS in South Africa
ISBN: 9781137505002 / Angielski / Twarda / 157 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Applying the latest social theory from science and technology studies, this book offers a novel rethinking of the dynamics of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. It demonstrates how political struggles, poverty, and specific policy and health promotion practices have materially shaped the South African HIV epidemic in specific and often very damaging ways.
Applying the latest social theory from science and technology studies, this book offers a novel rethinking of the dynamics of HIV/AIDS in South Africa...
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201,24 |
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Exploring Aging Masculinities
ISBN: 9781137527561 / Angielski / Twarda / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the lived, embodied experiences of aging men as a counterpoint to the weary stereotypes often imposed on them. Conventionally, in Western cultures, they are seen as inevitably in decline. The book challenges these distorted images through a detailed analysis of aging men's life stories.
This book explores the lived, embodied experiences of aging men as a counterpoint to the weary stereotypes often imposed on them. Conventionally, in W...
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