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Gender, Nutrition, and the Human Right to Adequate Food: Toward an Inclusive Framework
ISBN: 9780415714457 / Angielski / Twarda / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book introduces the human right to adequate food and nutrition as evolving concept and identifies two structural "disconnects" fueling food insecurity for a billion people, and disproportionally affecting women, children, and rural food producers: the separation of women's rights from their right to adequate food and nutrition, and the fragmented attention to food as commodity and the medicalization of nutritional health. Three conditions arising from these disconnects are discussed: structural violence and discrimination frustrating the realization of women's human rights, as well as... This book introduces the human right to adequate food and nutrition as evolving concept and identifies two structural "disconnects" fueling food in... |
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Troubling Natural Categories: Engaging the Medical Anthropology of Margaret Lock
ISBN: 9780773541993 / Angielski / Twarda / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Where do our conventional understandings of health, illness, and the body stem from? What makes them authoritative? How are the boundaries set around these areas of life unsettled in the changing historical and political contexts of science, technology, and health care delivery? These questions are at the heart of Troubling Natural Categories, a collection of essays honouring the tradition of Margaret Lock, one of the preeminent medical anthropologists of our time. Throughout her career, Lock has investigated how medicine sets boundaries around what is deemed "normal" and "natural," and how,...
Where do our conventional understandings of health, illness, and the body stem from? What makes them authoritative? How are the boundaries set around ...
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Troubling Natural Categories: Engaging the Medical Anthropology of Margaret Lock
ISBN: 9780773542006 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Where do our conventional understandings of health, illness, and the body stem from? What makes them authoritative? How are the boundaries set around these areas of life unsettled in the changing historical and political contexts of science, technology, and health care delivery? These questions are at the heart of Troubling Natural Categories, a collection of essays honouring the tradition of Margaret Lock, one of the preeminent medical anthropologists of our time. Throughout her career, Lock has investigated how medicine sets boundaries around what is deemed "normal" and "natural," and how,...
Where do our conventional understandings of health, illness, and the body stem from? What makes them authoritative? How are the boundaries set around ...
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Beyond the Line: Military and Veteran Health Research
ISBN: 9780773542792 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Caring for veterans returning from service is just as important as preparing troops for deployment. Beyond the Line is a collection of current research presented by the Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research, an organization committed to finding the best solutions to address the range of health issues arising from military service. Bringing together work by defence scientists and researchers and clinicians from several Canadian universities, contributors present their findings on topics such as mental, physical, social, rehabilitative, and occupational health, in addition...
Caring for veterans returning from service is just as important as preparing troops for deployment. Beyond the Line is a collection of current researc...
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Beyond the Line: Military and Veteran Health Research
ISBN: 9780773542808 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Caring for veterans returning from service is just as important as preparing troops for deployment. Beyond the Line is a collection of current research presented by the Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research, an organization committed to finding the best solutions to address the range of health issues arising from military service. Bringing together work by defence scientists and researchers and clinicians from several Canadian universities, contributors present their findings on topics such as mental, physical, social, rehabilitative, and occupational health, in addition...
Caring for veterans returning from service is just as important as preparing troops for deployment. Beyond the Line is a collection of current researc...
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Researching AIDS, Sexuality and Gender. Case Studies of Women in Kenyan Universities
ISBN: 9789966040299 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The current HIV and AIDS regime has opened up unknown vistas in intellectual pursuits and knowledge creation. One such newly opened up area of research is studying HIV and AIDS in relation to gender issues. However, owing to the devastating nature of the epidemic, most studies tend to focus on women merely as an "at risk" population leaving aside the wider sociological dimensions that pertain to women's sexuality in general, issues of AIDS related stigma and discrimination and how it impacts on women's careers as economic contributors to society. The uniqueness of the present study lies in...
The current HIV and AIDS regime has opened up unknown vistas in intellectual pursuits and knowledge creation. One such newly opened up area of researc...
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Beyond Post-Traumatic Stress: Homefront Struggles with the Wars on Terror
ISBN: 9781611323658 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Black feminist thought has developed in various parts of the academy for over three decades, but has made only minor inroads into archaeological theory and practice. Whitney Battle-Baptiste outlines the basic tenets of Black feminist thought and research for archaeologists and shows how it can be used to improve contemporary historical archaeology. She demonstrates this using Andrew Jackson s Hermitage, the W. E. B. Du Bois Homesite in Massachusetts, and the Lucy Foster house in Andover, which represented the first archaeological excavation of an African American home. Her call for an...
Black feminist thought has developed in various parts of the academy for over three decades, but has made only minor inroads into archaeological theor...
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Beyond Post-Traumatic Stress: Homefront Struggles with the Wars on Terror
ISBN: 9781611323665 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When soldiers at Fort Carson were charged with a series of 14 murders, PTSD and other "invisible wounds of war" were thrown into the national spotlight. With these events as their starting point, Jean Scandlyn and Sarah Hautzinger argue for a new approach to combat stress and trauma, seeing them not just as individual medical pathologies but as fundamentally collective cultural phenomena. Their deep ethnographic research, including unusual access to affected soldiers at Fort Carson, also engaged an extended labyrinth of friends, family, communities, military culture, social services,...
When soldiers at Fort Carson were charged with a series of 14 murders, PTSD and other "invisible wounds of war" were thrown into the national spotligh...
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The Fatal Strain: On the Trail of Avian Flu and the Coming Pandemic
ISBN: 9780143118305 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2009, swine flu reminded us that pandemics still happen, and journalist Alan Sipress reminds us that far worse could be brewing. 'The Fatal Strain' is a fast-moving account that weaves cultural, political, and scientific strands into a tale of inevitable pandemic.
In 2009, swine flu reminded us that pandemics still happen, and journalist Alan Sipress reminds us that far worse could be brewing. 'The Fatal Strain'...
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The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Healthcare
ISBN: 9780230230316 / Angielski / Twarda / 506 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An authoritative, state-of-the-art reference collection, bringing together international experts to examine the key issues and core debates related to gender and healthcare. A vital resource for a wide range of academics, researchers, practitioners and policymakers.
An authoritative, state-of-the-art reference collection, bringing together international experts to examine the key issues and core debates related to...
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From Public Health to Wellbeing: The New Driver for Policy and Action
ISBN: 9780230278851 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charting the history and evolution of the public health agenda, this insightful reader argues the place of wellbeing in local and national strategy. With contributions from academics and practitioners in the public, private sectors, it explores current thinking and policy within a range of settings, such as the NHS, the workplace and the community.
Charting the history and evolution of the public health agenda, this insightful reader argues the place of wellbeing in local and national strategy. W...
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Pills for the Poorest: An Exploration of TRIPS and Access to Medication in Sub-Saharan Africa
ISBN: 9780230282841 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The desperate need for a vast part of the global population to access better medicines in more certain ways is one of the biggest concerns of the modern era.
The desperate need for a vast part of the global population to access better medicines in more certain ways is one of the biggest concerns of the mode...
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Rights, Risks and Responsibilities: Interprofessional Working in Health and Social Care
ISBN: 9780230282889 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taking an interprofessional focus to reflect modern practice, this book introduces the complexity of balancing rights and risks. It helps readers to understand and evaluate their own values, knowledge and power in order to provide safer, more effective care for those they work with, including vulnerable adults and children.
Taking an interprofessional focus to reflect modern practice, this book introduces the complexity of balancing rights and risks. It helps readers to u...
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Religion and the Health of the Public: Shifting the Paradigm
ISBN: 9780230341524 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book proposes a critical theory of the role and place of religion in public health and argues for a programmatic reorientation of these two fields of practice and inquiry to more effectively align religious health assets - widely present in many contexts - and public health services and facilities.
The book proposes a critical theory of the role and place of religion in public health and argues for a programmatic reorientation of these two fields...
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Health and Illness
ISBN: 9780333662496 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Health and Illness provides a comprehensive, concise and accessible introduction to the topic, presented in an attractive manner, with relevant activities and exercises to ensure that students' learning is as active as possible. The activities, which are a central feature of the book, develop study skills such as essay writing, note-taking and responding to data/stimulus questions.
Health and Illness provides a comprehensive, concise and accessible introduction to the topic, presented in an attractive manner, with releva...
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The Human Right to Health
ISBN: 9780393063356 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An esteemed philosopher provides a shrewd examination of the future of the human right to health.
An esteemed philosopher provides a shrewd examination of the future of the human right to health.
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Structural Approaches in Public Health
ISBN: 9780415500869 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2014! That health has many social determinants is well established and a myriad range of structural factors - social, cultural, political, economic, and environmental - are now known to impact on population well-being. Public health practice has started exploring and responding to a range of health-related challenges from a structural paradigm, including individual and population vulnerability to infection with HIV and AIDS, injury-prevention, obesity, and smoking cessation. Recognising the inadequacy of public health responses that focus solely on...
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2014! That health has many social determinants is well established and a myriad range of structural factors - soci...
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The Drug Effect: Health, Crime and Society
ISBN: 9780521156059 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Drug Effect: Health, Crime and Society offers new perspectives on critical debates in the field of alcohol and other drug use. Drawing together work by respected scholars in Australia, the US, the UK and Canada, it explores social and cultural meanings of drug use, and analyses law enforcement and public health frameworks and objectives related to drug policy and service provision. In doing so, it addresses key questions of drug use and addiction through interdisciplinary, predominantly sociological and criminological, perspectives, mapping and building on recent conceptual and empirical...
The Drug Effect: Health, Crime and Society offers new perspectives on critical debates in the field of alcohol and other drug use. Drawing together wo...
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The Changing Body
ISBN: 9780521705615 / Angielski / Miękka / 458 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fascinating and groundbreaking book by an eminent team of scholars provides an accessible introduction to anthropometric history.
This fascinating and groundbreaking book by an eminent team of scholars provides an accessible introduction to anthropometric history.
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Life Exposed: Biological Citizens After Chernobyl
ISBN: 9780691151663 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine. More than 3.5 million people in Ukraine alone, not to mention many citizens of surrounding countries, are still suffering the effects. Life Exposed is the first book to comprehensively examine the vexed political, scientific, and social circumstances that followed the disaster. Tracing the story from an initial lack of disclosure to post-Soviet democratizing attempts to compensate sufferers, Adriana Petryna uses anthropological tools to take us into a world whose social realities are far... On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine. More than 3.5 million people in Ukraine alone, not t... |
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