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The Hanged Man Rises

by Sarah Naughton

10,80€ + 10% CARD

 A creepy supernatural thriller set in Victorian London, shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Children's Book Award
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Social Lives Of Medicines

by Anita (Universiteit Van Amsterdam) Hardon, Sjaak (Universiteit Van Amsterdam) Van Der Geest e Susan Reynolds (University Of Copenhagen) Whyte

44,60€ + 10% CARD

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 Medicines are more than chemical substances with medical effects. They have social lives because they move between people; they carry meaning and offer possibilities for communication and control. This book uses examples from five continents to examine central problems in the study of medicines including social efficacy, symbolism, and commodification.
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Pragmatic Women And Body Politics

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 This thought-provoking volume explores women's interaction with medicine. In a series of accessible case studies, the contributors show that women react pragmatically to medical technology, with responses ranging from acceptance to resistance or indifference. This book will be a key text in medical anthropology and women's studies.
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Doctors For Democracy - Health Professionals In The Nepal Revolution

by Vincanne (Princeton University, New Jersey) Adams

128,43€ + 10% CARD

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 This book examines the role of Nepali physicians in the revolutionary changes in 1990. It speaks more broadly to anyone interested in the relationship between science and politics. Can medical doctors safely politicize medical science without undermining their claims to democracy? Can doctors in the democratizing world afford not to?
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Community Participation In Health - The Politics Of Primary Care In Costa Rica

by Lynn M. (Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts) Morgan

50,02€ + 10% CARD

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 Combining a rich local ethnography with an analysis of local and national politics and the politics of aid, Lynn Morgan shows how community participation in health-care in Costa Rica was wrecked by national and international political conflicts.
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Living And Working With The New Medical Technologies - Intersections Of Inquiry

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 This interdisciplinary collection on newly created biomedical technologies and their practical application reveals how biomedical technologies are produced through the agencies of tools and techniques, scientists and doctors, funding bodies, patients, clients, and the public. Despite shared concerns, there is little consensus among contributors about the objectives of their research.
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The Transmission Of Chinese Medicine

by Elisabeth (University Of Cambridge) Hsu

37,85€ + 10% CARD

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 Based on her experience as disciple of a private practitioner, participating in scholarly seminars of a senior Chinese doctor, and studying at a college of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Elisabeth Hsu provides an insider's account of traditional medical education in China, revealing the way in which context of instruction shapes knowledge.
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Community Participation In Health - The Politics Of Primary Care In Costa Rica

by Lynn M. (Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts) Morgan

133,84€ + 10% CARD

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 Combining a rich local ethnography with an analysis of local and national politics and the politics of aid, Lynn Morgan shows how community participation in health-care in Costa Rica was wrecked by national and international political conflicts.
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Questioning Misfortune - The Pragmatics Of Uncertainty In Eastern Uganda

by Susan Reynolds (University Of Copenhagen) Whyte

106,80€ + 10% CARD

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 This study of adversity and its social causes in rural Uganda considers how people deal with life's uncertainties - sickness, suffering, marital problems, failure, and death. It emphasises the fact that remedies often fail and that doubt and uncertainty persist.
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Schizophrenia, Culture, And Subjectivity - The Edge Of Experience

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 In this volume, anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and historians share aspects of illness working with the concept of schizophrenia.
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An Ecology Of High-Altitude Infancy - A Biocultural Perspective

by Andrea S. (James Madison University, Virginia) Wiley

121,66€ + 10% CARD

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 This book considers how the unique mountain ecology and socio-cultural patterns of the Himalayan region of Ladakh contribute to a peculiar pattern of infant mortality. Highlighting the roles of ecology, culture, history, and political economy, it stresses the burdens of women's work in this region as crucial to birth outcome.
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Epidemiology And Culture

by James A. (Trinity College, Connecticut) Trostle

89,22€ + 10% CARD

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 This book shows how practitioners in the emerging field of 'cultural epidemiology' describe human health, communicate with diverse audiences, and intervene to improve health and prevent disease. By unpacking many common disease risks and epidemiologic categories, it reveals unexamined assumptions and shows how sociocultural context influences measurement of disease.
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Meaning, Medicine And The 'Placebo Effect'

by Daniel E. (University Of Michigan, Dearborn) Moerman

105,45€ + 10% CARD

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 Traditionally, the effectiveness of medical treatments is attributed to specific elements, such as drugs, but many things in medicine cannot be accounted for in this way. For example, inert drugs (placebos) often have dramatic effects on people. This 2002 book guides the reader expertly through a very complex body of literature.
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Schizophrenia, Culture, And Subjectivity - The Edge Of Experience

62,19€ + 10% CARD

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 In this volume, anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and historians share aspects of illness working with the concept of schizophrenia.
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Questioning Misfortune - The Pragmatics Of Uncertainty In Eastern Uganda

by Susan Reynolds (University Of Copenhagen) Whyte

51,37€ + 10% CARD

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 This study of adversity and its social causes in rural Uganda considers how people deal with life's uncertainties - sickness, suffering, marital problems, failure, and death. It emphasises the fact that remedies often fail and that doubt and uncertainty persist.
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Doctors For Democracy - Health Professionals In The Nepal Revolution

by Vincanne (Princeton University, New Jersey) Adams

63,54€ + 10% CARD

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 This book examines the role of Nepali physicians in the revolutionary changes in 1990. It speaks more broadly to anyone interested in the relationship between science and politics. Can medical doctors safely politicize medical science without undermining their claims to democracy? Can doctors in the democratizing world afford not to?
ENGLISH

An Ecology Of High-Altitude Infancy - A Biocultural Perspective

by Andrea S. (James Madison University, Virginia) Wiley

58,13€ + 10% CARD

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 This book considers how the unique mountain ecology and socio-cultural patterns of the Himalayan region of Ladakh contribute to a peculiar pattern of infant mortality. Highlighting the roles of ecology, culture, history, and political economy, it stresses the burdens of women's work in this region as crucial to birth outcome.
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Pragmatic Women And Body Politics

51,37€ + 10% CARD

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 This thought-provoking volume explores women's interaction with medicine. In a series of accessible case studies, the contributors show that women react pragmatically to medical technology, with responses ranging from acceptance to resistance or indifference. This book will be a key text in medical anthropology and women's studies.
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Medicine And Morality In Haiti - The Contest For Healing Power

by Paul Brodwin

52,72€ + 10% CARD

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 A study of how medicine and morality in rural Haiti are shaped both by local religious traditions and by biomedical and folk medical practices.
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Meaning, Medicine And The 'Placebo Effect'

by Daniel E. (University Of Michigan, Dearborn) Moerman

31,09€ + 10% CARD

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 Traditionally, the effectiveness of medical treatments is attributed to specific elements, such as drugs, but many things in medicine cannot be accounted for in this way. For example, inert drugs (placebos) often have dramatic effects on people. This 2002 book guides the reader expertly through a very complex body of literature.
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Embodiment And Experience - The Existential Ground Of Culture And Self

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 A collection of essays examining the relationship between cultural values and the body as a source of symbols and instrument of experience. The contributors discuss topics including dietary customs, the expression of emotion, the experience of pain, and political violence.
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Epidemiology And Culture

by James A. (Trinity College, Connecticut) Trostle

33,80€ + 10% CARD

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 This book shows how practitioners in the emerging field of 'cultural epidemiology' describe human health, communicate with diverse audiences, and intervene to improve health and prevent disease. By unpacking many common disease risks and epidemiologic categories, it reveals unexamined assumptions and shows how sociocultural context influences measurement of disease.
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Living And Working With The New Medical Technologies - Intersections Of Inquiry

64,22€

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 Interdisciplinary collection of essays on the influence and development of new medical technologies.
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Social Lives Of Medicines

by Anita Hardon, Sjaak (Universiteit Van Amsterdam) Van Der Geest, Sjaak Van Der Geest e Susan Reynolds Whyte

57,94€

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 An anthropological study of the social functions and meanings of medicines in different cultures.
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