The Matter of Death: Space, Place and Materiality
ISBN: 9780230224162 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection opens up spaces where lives end, bodies are disposed of and memories generated: hospitals, hospices, care homes, coroners' courts, funeral premises, cemeteries, roadsides, the spirit world. Using material culture studies it illuminates the ways human beings make meaningful the challenges of death, dying and bereavement.
This collection opens up spaces where lives end, bodies are disposed of and memories generated: hospitals, hospices, care homes, coroners' courts, fun...
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389,98 zł |
Love in the Time of AIDS: Inequality, Gender, and Rights in South Africa
ISBN: 9780253222398 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In some parts of South Africa, more than one in three people are HIV positive. Love in the Time of AIDS explores transformations in notions of gender and intimacy to try to understand the roots of this virulent epidemic. By living in an informal settlement and collecting love letters, cell phone text messages, oral histories, and archival materials, Mark Hunter details the everyday social inequalities that have resulted in untimely deaths. Hunter shows how first apartheid and then chronic unemployment have become entangled with ideas about femininity, masculinity, love, and sex and have... In some parts of South Africa, more than one in three people are HIV positive. Love in the Time of AIDS explores transformations in notions of gend... |
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112,09 zł |
Love in the Time of AIDS: Inequality, Gender, and Rights in South Africa
ISBN: 9780253355331 / Angielski / Twarda / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In some parts of South Africa, more than one in three people are HIV positive. Love in the Time of AIDS explores transformations in notions of gender and intimacy to try to understand the roots of this virulent epidemic. By living in an informal settlement and collecting love letters, cell phone text messages, oral histories, and archival materials, Mark Hunter details the everyday social inequalities that have resulted in untimely deaths. Hunter shows how first apartheid and then chronic unemployment have become entangled with ideas about femininity, masculinity, love, and sex and have... In some parts of South Africa, more than one in three people are HIV positive. Love in the Time of AIDS explores transformations in notions of gend... |
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321,12 zł |
Improving Global Health
ISBN: 9781594518966 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Improving Global Health is the third in a series of volumes-Patterns of Potential Human Progress-that uses the International Futures (IFs) simulation model to explore prospects for human development: how development appears to be unfolding globally and locally, how we would like it to evolve, and how better to assure that we move it in desired directions. Earlier volumes addressed the reduction of global poverty and the advance of global education. Volume 3 sets out to tell a story of possible futures for the health of peoples across the world. Questions the volume addresses include: -What...
Improving Global Health is the third in a series of volumes-Patterns of Potential Human Progress-that uses the International Futures (IFs) simulation ...
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458,70 zł |
Infant Feeding Practices: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
ISBN: 9781441968722 / Angielski / Twarda / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It s natural... It s unsightly... It s normal... It s dangerous. To breastfeed or not? For millions of women around the world, this personal decision is influenced by numerous social, cultural, and health factors. Infant Feeding Practices is the first book to delve into these factors from a global perspective, revealing striking similarities and differences from country to country. Dispatches from Asia, Australia, Africa, the U.K., and the U.S. explore as wide a gamut of salient issues affecting feeding practices as traditional beliefs about colostrums, breast is best campaigns, partner...
It s natural... It s unsightly... It s normal... It s dangerous. To breastfeed or not? For millions of women around the world, this personal decision ...
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585,00 zł |
The Professional Guinea Pig: Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subjects
ISBN: 9780822348146 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 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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482,90 zł |
No Good Deed: A Story of Medicine, Murder Accusations, and the Debate Over How We Die
ISBN: 9780061721779 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Accomplished physician and researcher Dr. Lewis Cohen writes the untold story of two Massachusetts nurses, their struggles with end of life care, and how they were accused of murdering a patient. Captivating and powerful, No Good Deed explores what happens when decisions about end of life issues and the purpose of modern medicine move from the hospital to the courtroom to the church.
Accomplished physician and researcher Dr. Lewis Cohen writes the untold story of two Massachusetts nurses, their struggles with end of life care, and ...
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64,69 zł |
Surviving Hiv/AIDS in the Inner City: How Resourceful Latinas Beat the Odds
ISBN: 9780813548920 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Surviving HIV/AIDS in the Inner City explores the survival strategies of poor, HIV-positive Puerto Rican women by asking four key questions: Given their limited resources, how did they manage an illness as serious as HIV/AIDS? Did they look for alternatives to conventional medical treatment? Did the challenges they faced deprive them of self-determination, or could they help themselves and each other? What can we learn from these resourceful women?
Based on her work with minority women living in Newark, New Jersey, Sabrina Marie Chase illuminates the hidden traps and land mines... Surviving HIV/AIDS in the Inner City explores the survival strategies of poor, HIV-positive Puerto Rican women by asking four key questions: Gi...
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234,48 zł |
Configuring Health Consumers: Health Work and the Imperative of Personal Responsibility
ISBN: 9780230251960 / Angielski / Twarda / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explore assumptions underpinning contemporary health policy discourses that emphasize personal responsibility for health, consider how they attach to changing information technologies, and discuss their influence on emerging forms of health 'work'.
This book explore assumptions underpinning contemporary health policy discourses that emphasize personal responsibility for health, consider how they ...
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194,97 zł |
Fat China: How Expanding Waistlines Are Changing a Nation
ISBN: 9780857289650 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China's economy has boomed, but a potentially disastrous side effect - along with pollution and a growing income gap between urban and rural regions - is the effects obesity will have on the country's fragile healthcare system. Today's overweight in China can look to a mixed future of bright economic hopes for their country, and poor and deteriorating health for themselves. From a situation 20 years ago when diets were limited by food availability, and famine was still a recent memory, China's urban centres have seen alarmingly rising rates of obesity. Throughout the country an estimated... China's economy has boomed, but a potentially disastrous side effect - along with pollution and a growing income gap between urban and rural region... |
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129,24 zł |
Fat China: How Expanding Waistlines Are Changing a Nation
ISBN: 9780857289780 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China's economy has boomed, but a potentially disastrous side effect - along with pollution and a growing income gap between urban and rural regions - is the effects obesity will have on the country's fragile healthcare system. Today's overweight in China can look to a mixed future of bright economic hopes for their country, and poor and deteriorating health for themselves. From a situation 20 years ago when diets were limited by food availability, and famine was still a recent memory, China's urban centres have seen alarmingly rising rates of obesity. Throughout the country an estimated... China's economy has boomed, but a potentially disastrous side effect - along with pollution and a growing income gap between urban and rural region... |
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660,05 zł |
Communities, Neighborhoods, and Health: Expanding the Boundaries of Place
ISBN: 9781441974815 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Place is an important element in understanding health and health care disparities. More that merely a geographic location, place is a socio-ecological force with detectable effects on social life, independent well-being, and health. Despite the general enthusiasm for the study of place and the potential it could have for a better understanding of the distribution of health in different communities, research is at a difficult crossroads because of disagreements in how the construct should be conceptualized and measured. This edited volume incorporates an cross-disciplinary approach to the...
Place is an important element in understanding health and health care disparities. More that merely a geographic location, place is a socio-ecological...
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389,98 zł |
Health and Globalization
ISBN: 9780745645124 / Angielski / Twarda / 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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295,10 zł |
The Enculturated Gene: Sickle Cell Health Politics and Biological Difference in West Africa
ISBN: 9780691123172 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 1980s, a research team led by Parisian scientists identified several unique DNA sequences, or haplotypes, linked to sickle cell anemia in African populations. After casual observations of how patients managed this painful blood disorder, the researchers in question postulated that the Senegalese type was less severe. The Enculturated Gene traces how this genetic discourse has blotted from view the roles that Senegalese patients and doctors have played in making sickle cell "mild" in a social setting where public health priorities and economic austerity programs have forced... In the 1980s, a research team led by Parisian scientists identified several unique DNA sequences, or haplotypes, linked to sickle cell anemia in Af... |
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Ethical and Legal Debates in Irish Healthcare: Confronting Complexities
ISBN: 9780719099465 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Irish health system is confronted by a range of challenges, both emerging and recurring. This collection provides a foundation for ongoing engagement with selected issues in contemporary Irish health contexts. It includes contributions from scholars and practitioners across a range of disciplines. The essays are theoretically informed and are grounded in the realities of the Irish health system, by drawing on contributors' contextual knowledge.
The focus of the collection is interdisciplinary and the essays are situated at the intersection between ethics, law, medicine and policy. It... The Irish health system is confronted by a range of challenges, both emerging and recurring. This collection provides a foundation for ongoing engagem...
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482,90 zł |
The Tender Cut: Inside the Hidden World of Self-Injury
ISBN: 9780814705063 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013 2013 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 InteractionCutting, 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... Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013 2013 Honorable Mention for the Distinguished Book Award presente... |
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Germs Gone Wild: How the Unchecked Development of Domestic Biodefense Threatens America
ISBN: 9781605982687 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. King experienced the menace of bio-defense research firsthand when local government and business leaders tried to lure a new facility to his hometown in Kentucky. Researching the safety claims, he not only found many of them to be completely false, but was also horrified by the lack of oversight and the recklessness with which these labs genetically modified pathogens like smallpox, Ebola, and influenza without a care for what happened to the public if there was ever a leak. And yet the greed that drove the development of these labs has effectively counteracted any cautionary checks by the...
King experienced the menace of bio-defense research firsthand when local government and business leaders tried to lure a new facility to his hometown ...
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157,04 zł |
The Politics of Sleep: Governing (Un)Consciousness in the Late Modern Age
ISBN: 9780230223660 / Angielski / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why has sleep become increasingly politicized in contemporary society? This book provides an account of the politics of sleep in the late modern age. The future of sleep has become contested and uncertain: something to be defended, downsized or even perhaps (one day) done away with altogether.
Why has sleep become increasingly politicized in contemporary society? This book provides an account of the politics of sleep in the late modern age. ...
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Population, Gender and Health in India
ISBN: 9788171888092 / Angielski / Twarda / 590 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing together contributions from various scholars, this record discusses India's demographic changes, its gender and health system, and its health policies and programs. This detailed account highlights achievements and challenges facing the country in the area of population, gender, and health in different settings and also suggests new methods of analyzing the relationships between them. This volume, undoubtedly, will be a useful guide to students, researchers, and policy makers in India and across the world.
Bringing together contributions from various scholars, this record discusses India's demographic changes, its gender and health system, and its health...
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305,83 zł |
Environment, Health and History
ISBN: 9780230233119 / Angielski / Twarda / 297 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The environment is currently a matter of international public and academic concern, but is often considered separately from health issues. This book brings together work from environmental and health historians to conceptualise the connection between environment and health at different times and in different geographical locations.
The environment is currently a matter of international public and academic concern, but is often considered separately from health issues. This book b...
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194,97 zł |