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Thinking About Dementia - Culture, Loss, And The Anthropology Of Senility

by Annette Leibing e Lawrence Cohen

55,58€ + 10% CARD

 Explores the historical, psychological, and philosophical implications of dementia. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this book employs a cross-cultural perspective and focuses on questions of age, mind, voice, self, loss, temporality, memory, and affect.
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Obesity - Cultural And Biocultural Perspectives

by Alexandra A. Brewis

54,26€ + 10% CARD

 <div>In a world now filled with more people who are overweight than underweight, public health and medical perspectives paint obesity as a catastrophic epidemic that threatens to overwhelm health systems and undermine life expectancies globally. In many societies, being obese also creates profound personal suffering because it is so culturally stigmatized. Yet despite loud messages about the health and social costs of being obese, weight gain is a seemingly universal aspect of the modern human condition.<br> <br> Grounded in a holistic anthropological approach and using a range of ethnographic and ecological case studies, <i>Obesity</i> shows that the human tendency to become and stay fat makes perfect sense in terms of evolved human inclinations and the physical and social realities of modern life. Drawing on her own fieldwork in the rural United States, Mexico, and the Pacific Islands over the last two decades, Alexandra A. Brewis addresses such critical questions as why obesity is defined as a problem and why some groups are so much more at risk than others. She suggests innovative ways that anthropology and other social sciences can use community-based research to address the serious public health and social justice concerns provoked by the global spread of obesity.</div>
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Menopause - A Biocultural Perspective

by Lynnette Leidy Sievert

54,26€ + 10% CARD

 Menopause is a biological reality for all women in their forties and fifties. Yet the way we think about the cessation of menstruation is influenced by a variety of factors. Cultural and technological influences combine with biology to transform this universal phenomenon into an experience that varies considerably between cultures and individuals. In this concise book, Lynnette Leidy Sievert draws on her own case studies from Puebla, Mexico, and western Massachusetts, as well as on comparative data from other studies in places such as Slovenia, Paraguay, and Hawaii, to explore the different ways that women experience menopause around the world. Sievert suggests that attempts by medical professionals to define the "normal" occurrence of menopause, including its typical onset and symptoms, may not be realistic when considering how lifestyle, nutrition, and workload can contribute to diverging realities. She explores how women feel about hysterectomies, chemotherapy, and other medical procedures and treatments that stop menstruation prematurely. She also considers recent advances in technology, including post-menopausal birth, which have turned what was previously an unavoidable end of fertility into something that can be postponed. A unique comparative look at women's experiences, this text brings new perspectives to the mainstream literature on the subject and invites readers to consider compelling questions about menopause, its meanings, and its future.
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Healing The Body Politic - El Salvador''S Popular Struggle For Health Rights From Civil War To Neoliberal Peace

by Sandy Smith-Nonini

59,56€ + 10% CARD

 <div> <div>Incorporating investigative journalism and drawing on interviews with participants and leaders, Sandy Smith-Nonini examines the contested place of health and development in El Salvador over the last two decades. <i>Healing the Body Politic</i> recounts the dramatic story of radical health activism from its origins in liberation theology and guerrilla medicine during the third-world country''s twelve-year civil war, through development of a remarkable "popular health system," administered by lay providers in a former war zone controlled by leftist rebels. This ethnography casts light on the conflicts between the conservative Ministry of Health and primary health advocates during the 1990s peace process--a time when the government sought to dismantle the effective peasant-run rural system. It offers a rare analysis of the White Marches of 2002û2003, when radicalized physicians rose to national leadership in a successful campaign against privatization of the social security health system. <i>Healing the Body Politic</i> contributes to the productive integration of medical and political anthropology by bringing the semiotics of health and the body to bear on cultural understandings of warfare, the state, and globalization.</div> </div>
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With Shaking Hands - Aging With Parkinson''S Disease In America''S Heartland

by Samantha Solimeo

51,61€ + 10% CARD

 Concentrates on the account of elder Americans in rural Iowa who have been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease (PD). Focusing on the impact of chronic illness on an aging population, this title combines prose with qualitative and quantitative research to demonstrate how PD accelerates, mediates, and obscures patterns of aging.
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Embodying Culture - Pregnancy In Japan And Israel

by Tsipy Ivry

58,23€ + 10% CARD

 Presents an exploration of pregnancy in two different cultures - Japan and Israel - both of which medicalize pregnancy. This title focuses on 'low-risk' or 'normal' pregnancies, using cultural comparison to explore the complex relations among ethnic ideas about procreation, medical models of pregnancy care, and local modes of maternal agency.
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Public Life Of The Fetal Sonogram - Technology, Consumption, And The Politics Of Reproduction

by Janelle S. Taylor

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 Analyzes the sociocultural context of ultrasound technology and imagery. Drawing upon ethnographic research both within and beyond the medical setting, this title shows how ultrasound has entered into public consumer culture in the United States.
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Surviving Hiv/Aids In The Inner City - How Resourceful Latinas Beat The Odds

by Sabrina Chase

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 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?
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Sleep Paralysis - Night-Mares, Nocebos, And The Mind-Body Connection

by Shelley R Adler

58,23€ + 10% CARD

 Explores a distinctive form of nocturnal fright: the 'night-mare', or incubus - the state of consciousness between sleep and wakefulness, when you are unable to move or speak and may experience vivid and often frightening hallucinations. This focuses on the ways in which night-mare attacks have been experienced and interpreted throughout history and across cultures and how, in a unique example of the effect of nocebo (placebo's evil twin), the combination of meaning and biology may result in sudden nocturnal death.
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Veins Of Devotion - Blood Donation And Religious Experience In North India

by Jacob Copeman

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 According to public health orthodoxy, blood for transfusion is safer when derived from voluntary, nonremunerated donors. As developing nations phase out compensated blood collection efforts to comply with this current policy, many struggle to keep their blood stores up. Veins of Devotion details recent collaborations between guru-led devotional movements and public health campaigns to encourage voluntary blood donation in northern India. Focusing primarily on Delhi, Jacob Copeman carefully situates the practice within the context of religious gift-giving, sacrifice, caste, kinship, and nationalism. The book analyzes the operations of several high-profile religious orders that organize large-scale public blood-giving events and argues that blood donation has become a site not only of frenetic competition between different devotional movements, but also of intense spiritual creativity. Despite tensions between blood banks and these religious groups, their collaboration is a remarkable success storyuthe nation's blood supply is replenished while blood donors discover new devotional possibilities. Download open access ebook here.
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Your Pocket Is What Cures You - The Politics Of Health In Senegal

by Ellen E Foley

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 <div> <div>In the wake of structural adjustment programs in the 1980s and health reforms in the 1990s, the majority of sub-Saharan African governments spend less than ten dollars per capita on health annually, and many Africans have limited access to basic medical care. Using a community-level approach, anthropologist Ellen E. Foley analyzes the implementation of global health policies and how they become intertwined with existing social and political inequalities in Senegal. <i>Your Pocket Is What Cures You</i> examines qualitative shifts in health and healing spurred by these reforms, and analyzes the dilemmas they create for health professionals and patients alike. It also explores how cultural frameworks, particularly those stemming from Islam and Wolof ethnomedicine, are central to understanding how people manage vulnerability to ill health. <p>While offering a critique of neoliberal health policies, <i>Your Pocket Is What Cures You</i> remains grounded in ethnography to highlight the struggles of men and women who are precariously balanced on twin precipices of crumbling health systems and economic decline. Their stories demonstrate what happens when market-based health reforms collide with material, political, and social realities in African societies.</p> </div> </div>
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Abject Relations - Everyday Worlds Of Anorexia

by Megan Warin

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 Presents an alternative approach to anorexia, long considered the epitome of a Western obsession with individualism, beauty, self-control, and autonomy. Through detailed ethnographic investigations, this book looks at the heart of what it means to live with anorexia on a daily basis.
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Chronic Conditions, Fluid States - Chronicity And The Anthropology Of Illness

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 Chronic Conditions, Fluid States explores the uneven impact of chronic illness and disability on individuals, families, and communities in diverse local and global settings. To date, much of the social as well as biomedical research has treated the experience of illness and the challenges of disease control and management as segmented and episodic. Breaking new ground in medical anthropology by challenging the chronic/acute divide in illness and disease, the editors, along with a group of rising scholars and some of the most influential minds in the field, address the concept of chronicity, an idea used to explain individual and local life-worlds, question public health discourse, and consider the relationship between health and the globalizing forces that shape it.
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Comprehending Drug Use - Ethnographic Research At The Social Margins

by J. Bryan Page e Merrill Singer

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 Comprehending Drug Use, the first full-length critical overview of the use of ethnographic methods in drug research, synthesizes more than one hundred years of study on the human encounter with psychotropic drugs.
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Sleep Paralysis - Night-Mares, Nocebos, And The Mind-Body Connection

by Shelley R Adler

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 Explores a distinctive form of nocturnal fright: the 'night-mare', or incubus - the state of consciousness between sleep and wakefulness, when you are unable to move or speak and may experience vivid and often frightening hallucinations. This focuses on the ways in which night-mare attacks have been experienced and interpreted throughout history and across cultures and how, in a unique example of the effect of nocebo (placebo's evil twin), the combination of meaning and biology may result in sudden nocturnal death.
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Museum Informatics - People, Information, And Technology In Museums

by Katherine (Harvard Divinity School, Usa) Jones e Paul F. (Florida State University, Usa) Marty

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 Museum informatics provides an overview, suitable for current and future museum professionals, educators, and students, of the sociotechnical interactions that take place between people, information, and technology in museums.
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Chronic Conditions, Fluid States - Chronicity And The Anthropology Of Illness

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 Explores the uneven impact of chronic illness and disability on individuals, families, and communities in diverse local and global settings.
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Aphrodite'S Daughters - Three Modernist Poets Of The Harlem Renaissance

by Maureen Honey

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 The Harlem Renaissance was a watershed moment for racial uplift, poetic innovation, sexual liberation, and female empowerment. Aphrodite's Daughters introduces us to three amazing women who were at the forefront of all these developments, poetic iconoclasts who pioneered new and candidly erotic forms of female self-expression.
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With Shaking Hands - Aging With Parkinson'S Disease In America'S Heartland

by Samantha Solimeo

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 Concentrates on the account of elder Americans in rural Iowa who have been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease (PD). Focusing on the impact of chronic illness on an aging population, this title combines prose with qualitative and quantitative research to demonstrate how PD accelerates, mediates, and obscures patterns of aging.
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Torture Porn In The Wake Of 9/11 - Horror, Exploitation, And The Cinema Of Sensation

by Aaron Michael Kerner

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Cash For Your Trash - Scrap Recycling In America

by Carl A. Zimring

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 Offers a history of scrap recycling, since the colonial times. Integrating findings from archival, industrial, and demographic records, and moving beyond the environmental developments that have shaped modern recycling enterprises, this work offers a cultural and economic portrait of the private businesses that made large-scale recycling possible.
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With Shaking Hands - Aging With Parkinson'S Disease In America'S Heartland

by Samantha Solimeo

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 Concentrates on the account of elder Americans in rural Iowa who have been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease (PD). Focusing on the impact of chronic illness on an aging population, this title combines prose with qualitative and quantitative research to demonstrate how PD accelerates, mediates, and obscures patterns of aging.
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Healing The Body Politic - El Salvador'S Popular Struggle For Health Rights From Civil War To Neoliberal Peace

by Sandy Smith-Nonini

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 Incorporating investigative journalism, this title examines the contested place of health and development in El Salvador. It recounts the story of radical health activism from its origins in liberation theology and guerrilla medicine during the third-world country's twelve-year civil war, through development of a 'popular health system'.
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Deserving Desire - Women'S Stories Of Sexual Evolution

by Beth Montemurro

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 Takes a wide-ranging look at the evolution of women's sexuality over time, with a specific focus on the development of sexual subjectivity - that is sexual confidence, agency, and a sense of entitlement to sexual desire. Detailed stories of the ninety-five women in this study explore how they become more comfortable with their bodies, when most begin to enjoy sex, feel confident and positive about engaging in it, and how they become sexual subjects in control of their bodies.
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