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Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us
ISBN: 9780520276567 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nearly half of all Americans will be diagnosed with an invasive cancer--an all-too ordinary aspect of daily life. Through a powerful combination of cultural analysis and memoir, this stunningly original book explores why cancer remains so confounding, despite the billions of dollars spent in the search for a cure. Amidst furious debates over its causes and treatments, scientists generate reams of data--information that ultimately obscures as much as it clarifies. Award-winning anthropologist S. Lochlann Jain deftly unscrambles the high stakes of the resulting confusion. Expertly reading...
Nearly half of all Americans will be diagnosed with an invasive cancer--an all-too ordinary aspect of daily life. Through a powerful combination of cu...
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Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us
ISBN: 9780520276574 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nearly half of all Americans will be diagnosed with an invasive cancer--an all-too ordinary aspect of daily life. Through a powerful combination of cultural analysis and memoir, this stunningly original book explores why cancer remains so confounding, despite the billions of dollars spent in the search for a cure. Amidst furious debates over its causes and treatments, scientists generate reams of data--information that ultimately obscures as much as it clarifies. Award-winning anthropologist S. Lochlann Jain deftly unscrambles the high stakes of the resulting confusion. Expertly reading...
Nearly half of all Americans will be diagnosed with an invasive cancer--an all-too ordinary aspect of daily life. Through a powerful combination of cu...
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Hope Amidst Despair: Hiv/Aids-Affected Children in Sub-Saharan Africa
ISBN: 9780745331539 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Of the 16 million children to have been orphaned by AIDS worldwide, almost 15 million live in sub-Saharan Africa. "Hope Amidst Despair" focuses on these children and those who are made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS.
Of the millions affected, many live in deep poverty, experience little schooling, have unmet health and psychological issues and bear the burden of stigma. Their plight is often ignored and, as a result, they lead lives of isolation and exclusion that threaten their futures. The book gives voice to HIV/AIDS orphans, allowing them to tell their stories and explain the challenges they... Of the 16 million children to have been orphaned by AIDS worldwide, almost 15 million live in sub-Saharan Africa. "Hope Amidst Despair" focuses on the...
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Health and Globalization
ISBN: 9780745645131 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This accessible book examines the multidimensional influence of globalization on human health and disease. The acceleration of globalization since the end of the Cold War has had numerous far-reaching impacts on health-related issues, both social and political, and as this book shows, globalization continues to present both positive and negative implications for the state of human health.
In Health and Globalization, Geoffrey and William Cockerham focus on the relationships between globalization and a variety of health-related topics including the spread of Western medicine,... This accessible book examines the multidimensional influence of globalization on human health and disease. The acceleration of globalization since the...
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The Tender Cut: Inside the Hidden World of Self-Injury
ISBN: 9780814705070 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 20132013 Honorable Mention for the Distinguished Book Award presented by the Midwest Sociological Society Honorable Mention for the Charles H. Cooley Award for Outstanding Book from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Cutting, burning, branding, and bone-breaking are all types of self-injury, or the deliberate, non-suicidal destruction of one's own body tissue, a practice that emerged from obscurity in the 1990s and spread dramatically as a...
Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 20132013 Honorable Mention for the Distinguished Book Award presented b...
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Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality
ISBN: 9780814795927 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. You see someone smoking a cigarette and say, -Smoking is bad for your health, - when what you mean is, -You are a bad person because you smoke.- You encounter someone whose body size you deem excessive, and say, -Obesity is bad for your health, - when what you mean is, -You are lazy, unsightly, or weak of will.- You see a woman bottle-feeding an infant and say, -Breastfeeding is better for that child's health, - when what you mean is that the woman must be a bad parent. You see the smokers, the overeaters, the bottle-feeders, and affirm your own health in the process. In these and... You see someone smoking a cigarette and say, -Smoking is bad for your health, - when what you mean is, -You are a bad person because you smoke.- Yo... |
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Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality
ISBN: 9780814795934 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. You see someone smoking a cigarette and say, -Smoking is bad for your health, - when what you mean is, -You are a bad person because you smoke.- You encounter someone whose body size you deem excessive, and say, -Obesity is bad for your health, - when what you mean is, -You are lazy, unsightly, or weak of will.- You see a woman bottle-feeding an infant and say, -Breastfeeding is better for that child's health, - when what you mean is that the woman must be a bad parent. You see the smokers, the overeaters, the bottle-feeders, and affirm your own health in the process. In these and... You see someone smoking a cigarette and say, -Smoking is bad for your health, - when what you mean is, -You are a bad person because you smoke.- Yo... |
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The Professional Guinea Pig: Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subjects
ISBN: 9780822348238 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Professional Guinea Pig documents the emergence of the professional research subject in Phase I clinical trials testing the safety of drugs in development. Until the mid-1970s Phase I trials were conducted on prisoners. After that practice was outlawed, the pharmaceutical industry needed a replacement population and began to aggressively recruit healthy, paid subjects, some of whom came to depend on the income, earning their living by continuously taking part in these trials. Drawing on ethnographic research among self-identified -professional guinea pigs- in Philadelphia, Roberto...
The Professional Guinea Pig documents the emergence of the professional research subject in Phase I clinical trials testing the safety of drugs...
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Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health
ISBN: 9780822348719 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every year the average number of prescriptions purchased by Americans increases, as do healthcare expenditures, which are projected to reach one-fifth of the U.S. gross domestic product by 2020. In "Drugs for Life," Joseph Dumit considers how our burgeoning consumption of medicine and cost of healthcare not only came to be, but also came to be taken for granted. For several years, Dumit attended pharmaceutical industry conferences; spoke with marketers, researchers, doctors, and patients; and surveyed the industry's literature regarding strategies to expand markets for prescription drugs. He...
Every year the average number of prescriptions purchased by Americans increases, as do healthcare expenditures, which are projected to reach one-fifth...
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Sociology of Diagnosis
ISBN: 9780857245755 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Diagnosis is central to medical practice, medical knowledge and research, medicalization dynamics, and health and illness experience. Embedded in social relations, diagnoses reflect and shape social dynamics and cultural concerns. Diagnoses are integral to resource allocation, form the basis for identities, and may become a focal point of turf battles and contested authority. Some diagnoses are willingly embraced, whereas others are strenuously resisted. Some diagnoses come and go as fashions; others persist. A sociological approach to diagnosis therefore occupies a complex intersection of...
Diagnosis is central to medical practice, medical knowledge and research, medicalization dynamics, and health and illness experience. Embedded in soci...
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Social Theory, Health and Healthcare
ISBN: 9781403989536 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social Theory, Health and Healthcare provides a systematic guide to both classical and contemporary social theories, identifying the relevance and research implications of each theory. Students are shown the social factors that contribute to health, enabling them to assess health issues and make decisions on treatment.
Social Theory, Health and Healthcare provides a systematic guide to both classical and contemporary social theories, identifying the relevanc...
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Manufacturing Depression : The Secret History of a Modern Disease
ISBN: 9781408800973 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his account of the close relationship between psychiatric diagnosis and the pharmaceutical industries, Greenberg uses his personal experience over a two-year exposure to drug testing for depression and 20 years of professional practice as a psychotherapist, to answer questions and unravel the 'Secret History of a Modern Disease'.
In his account of the close relationship between psychiatric diagnosis and the pharmaceutical industries, Greenberg uses his personal experience over ...
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Vulnerable Groups in Health and Social Care
ISBN: 9781412948241 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This in-depth and engaging book examines the theory, policy and practice required to care for key vulnerable groups within society.
This in-depth and engaging book examines the theory, policy and practice required to care for key vulnerable groups within society.
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Medicine as Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body
ISBN: 9781446208953 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Third Edition of a seminal text which is widely recommended to upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students of health, anthropology, nursing and cultural studies.
The Third Edition of a seminal text which is widely recommended to upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students of health, anthropology, nursin...
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Knowledge, Policy and Power in International Development: A Practical Guide
ISBN: 9781447300953 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents an academically rigorous yet practical guide to efforts to understand how knowledge, policy and power interact to promote or prevent change.
This book presents an academically rigorous yet practical guide to efforts to understand how knowledge, policy and power interact to promote or preven...
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Critical Perspectives on Addiction
ISBN: 9781780529301 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our understandings of addiction are rapidly changing. New technologies and biomedical treatments are reconfiguring addiction as a brain disease, and the concept of "addiction" is expanding to cover an ever widening array of substances and behaviours, from food to shopping. This volume looks critically at how addiction has been framed historically, how it is characterized and understood through contemporary cultural representations, how new treatments and technologies are reconfiguring addiction, and how "addiction" is being expanded beyond illicit drugs and alcohol to explain phenomena such...
Our understandings of addiction are rapidly changing. New technologies and biomedical treatments are reconfiguring addiction as a brain disease, and t...
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Trusting on the Edge: Managing Uncertainty and Vulnerability in the Midst of Serious Mental Health Problems
ISBN: 9781847428899 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A basic component of many social interactions, trust is especially vital within the context of severe mental illness. The heightened uncertainty and vulnerability of psychosis provides researchers a crucible within which to examine a number of questions central to contemporary theoretical debates around the nature of trust. Empirically analyzing how trust between users and providers of mental health services develops or falters, Patrick Brown and Michael Calnan ground these abstract concerns in concrete reality and shed new light on how best to assist this vulnerable population.
A basic component of many social interactions, trust is especially vital within the context of severe mental illness. The heightened uncertainty and v...
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What Works in Reducing Inequalities in Child Health?
ISBN: 9781847429964 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This revised and updated edition of an important report looks at macro public policy interventions, community interventions, and individual level interventions in a variety of areas to ascertain 'what works' in practice. It includes new case studies, updated research references, and reference to cost effectiveness.
This revised and updated edition of an important report looks at macro public policy interventions, community interventions, and individual level inte...
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The Energy Glut: The Politics of Fatness in an Overheating World
ISBN: 9781848135185 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. World-wide, over a billion adults are overweight and 300 million are officially 'obese', more than 3,000 people die every day on the world's roads and global warming and war threaten our survival as a species. The Energy Glut tells the story of energy and how our abuse of fossil fuel energy links all of these public issues as manifestations of the same fundamental planetary malaise.
This exciting new book argues that the pulse of fossil fuel energy released from the ground after the discovery of oil not only started the process of catastrophic climate change, but also propelled the... World-wide, over a billion adults are overweight and 300 million are officially 'obese', more than 3,000 people die every day on the world's roads and...
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Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences
ISBN: 9781848558809 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume addresses the need for sociological insight through empirically rich, theoretically innovative chapters that range across methods, traditions and foci in order to cast new light on the place, role and impact of neuroscience.
This volume addresses the need for sociological insight through empirically rich, theoretically innovative chapters that range across methods, traditi...
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