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Connective Tissue - Factory Accidents And Reconstructive Plastic Surgery In South India

by Lily N. Shapiro

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 Connective Tissue revisits scholarship on factory labor by analyzing the accident as constitutive of the experience of work itself, and it refines existing conversations about the body, trauma, and care by introducing an analysis informed by theories of labor and production.
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The Negotiation Of Urgency - Economies Of Attention In An Italian Emergency Room

by Mirko Pasquini

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 Ethnographically explores the everyday life of one of the thickest places in contemporary societies: the ER, where aging, economic precarity, draconian migration laws, hospital overcrowding, and life and death, intersect daily. The book describes the effect of those intersections for clinicians and their patients, as well as for policy makers and the health-care system more generally.
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Politics Of Potential - Global Health And Gendered Futures In South Africa

by Michelle Pentecost

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 In The Politics of Potential, physician-anthropologist Michelle Pentecost investigates The First 1000 Days, an early life intervention project that seeks to end child malnutrition in South Africa, the ways in which this program has been adopted, and how it impacts child-bearing women in South Africa in powerfully gendered and racialized ways.
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Forgotten Bodies - Imperialism, Chuukese Migration, And Stratified Reproduction In Guam

by Sarah A. Smith

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 Women from Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia who migrate to Guam, a U.S. territory, suffer disproportionately poor reproductive health outcomes. Though their access to the United States is uniquely easy, through a unique migration agreement, it keeps them in a perpetual liminal state as nonimmigrants, who never fully belong as part of the U.S.
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Best Place - Addiction, Intervention, And Living And Dying Young In Vancouver

by Danya Fast

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 Vancouver, Canada, is often celebrated as one of the worldâ€™s most beautiful, cosmopolitan, and livable cities. Simultaneously, the city continues to be ground zero for successive waves of public health emergency and intervention, including a recent and unprecedented drug overdose crisis driven by the proliferation of illicitly-manufactured fentanyl and related analogs in the local drug supply
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Calling Family - Digital Technologies And The Making Of Transnational Care Collectives

by Tanja Ahlin

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 Based on ethnographic fieldwork with families of migrating nurses from Kerala, India, Calling Family explores how digital technologies shape elder care when adult children and their aging parents live far apart.
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The Politics Of Potential - Global Health And Gendered Futures In South Africa

by Michelle Pentecost

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 In The Politics of Potential, physician-anthropologist Michelle Pentecost investigates The First 1000 Days, an early life intervention project that seeks to end child malnutrition in South Africa, the ways in which this program has been adopted, and how it impacts child-bearing women in South Africa in powerfully gendered and racialized ways.
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Borderless Fashion Practice - Contemporary Fashion In The Metamodern Age

by Vanessa Gerrie

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 Engages the work of four fashion designers - Virgil Abloh, Aitor Throup, Iris Van Herpen and Eckhaus Latta - whose work intersects with other creative disciplines. They do their work in what Vanessa Gerrie calls the metamodern age - the time and place where the polarization between the modern and the postmodern collapses.
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Making Uncertainty - Tuberculosis, Substance Use, And Pathways To Health In South Africa

by Anna Versfeld

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 Making Uncertainty: Tuberculosis, Substance Use, and Pathways to Health explores what happens when tuberculosis and substance use intersect in healthcare facilities in Cape Town, South Africa. Through a close look at life and care, this fine-grained hospital ethnography provides new perspectives on how sickness and health are made.
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Viral Frictions - Global Health And The Persistence Of Hiv Stigma In Kenya

by Elizabeth J. Pfeiffer

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 Takes the reader along a trail of intersecting narratives to uncover how and why it is that HIV-related stigma persists in the age of treatment. Pfeiffer convincingly argues that stigma is a socially constructed process co-produced at the nexus of local, national, and global relationships and storytelling about and practices associated with HIV.
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Cancer Within - Reproduction, Cultural Transformation, And Health Care In Romania

by Cristina A. Pop

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 The Cancer Within examines cervical cancer in Romania as a point of entry into an anthropological reflection on contemporary health care. Fashioned by patriarchal relations, lived religion, and the historical trauma of pronatalism, Romanian womenâ€™s responses to reproductive medicine and cervical cancer prevention are complicated by neoliberal reforms to medical care.
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Viral Frictions - Global Health And The Persistence Of Hiv Stigma In Kenya

by Elizabeth J. Pfeiffer

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 Takes the reader along a trail of intersecting narratives to uncover how and why it is that HIV-related stigma persists in the age of treatment. Pfeiffer convincingly argues that stigma is a socially constructed process co-produced at the nexus of local, national, and global relationships and storytelling about and practices associated with HIV.
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Pathogenic Policing - Immigration Enforcement And Health In The U.S. South

by Nolan Kline

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 The relationship between undocumented immigrants and law enforcement officials continues to be a politically contentious topic in the US. Nolan Kline focuses on the hidden, health-related impacts of immigrant policing to examine the role of policy in shaping health inequality in the US, and responds to fundamental questions regarding biopolitics.
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Near Human - Border Zones Of Species, Life, And Belonging

by Mette N. Svendsen

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 Near Human is an ethnography of research piglets in biomedical experiments and premature human infants in clinical care in Denmark. Drawing on fieldwork carried out on farms, in animal-based science labs, and in hospitals, Mette N. Svendsen redirects the question of "what it means" to be human to "what it takes" to be human and to forge a nation.
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At Ansha'S - Life In The Spirit Mosque Of A Healer In Mozambique

by Daria Trentini

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 Takes the reader inside the spirit mosque of a female healer in Nampula, northern Mozambique. It is here that Ansha, a Makonde spirit healer, heals the resisting ailments of her patients, discloses pieces of her story of affliction and healing, and engages the world outside her mosque.
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Dying To Count - Post-Abortion Care And Global Reproductive Health Politics In Senegal

by Siri Suh

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 Traces how national and global population politics collide in Senegal as health workers, health officials, and NGO workers strive to demonstrate post-abortion care's effectiveness in the absence of rigorous statistical evidence that the intervention reduces maternal mortality.
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Devil'S Fruit - Farmworkers, Health, And Environmental Justice

by Dvera I. Saxton

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 The Devil's Fruit describes the facets of the strawberry industry as a harm industry, and explores author Dvera Saxton's activist ethnographic work with farmworkers in response to health and environmental injustices. She argues that dealing with devilish-as in deadly, depressing, disabling, and toxic-problems requires intersecting ecosocial, emotional, ethnographic, and activist labors. Through her work as an activist medical anthropologist, she found the caring labors of engaged ethnography take on many forms that go in many different directions. Through chapters that examine farmworkers' embodiment of toxic pesticides and social and workplace relationships, Saxton critically and reflexively describes and analyzes the ways that engaged and activist ethnographic methods, frameworks, and ethics aligned and conflicted, and in various ways helped support still ongoing struggles for farmworker health and environmental justice in California. These are problems shared by other agricultural communities in the U.S. and throughout the world.
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Cultural Anxieties - Managing Migrant Suffering In France

by Stephanie Larchanche

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 A gripping ethnography about Centre Minkowska, a transcultural psychiatry clinic in Paris, France. From her unique position as both observer and staff member, anthropologist StÃ©phanie LarchanchÃ© explores the challenges of providing non-stigmatizing mental healthcare to migrants.
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Chronic Failures - Kidneys, Regimes Of Care, And The Mexican State

by Ciara Kierans

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 Explores Chronic Kidney Disease and the search for renal care lived out in the context of poverty, inequality and uneven welfare arrangements. Based on ethnographic research conducted in the state of Jalisco, this book documents the routes uninsured Mexican patients take in order to access resource intensive biotechnical treatments.
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Pathogenic Policing - Immigration Enforcement And Health In The U.S. South

by Nolan Kline

55,58€ + 10% CARD

 The relationship between undocumented immigrants and law enforcement officials continues to be a politically contentious topic in the United States. Nolan Kline focuses on the hidden, health-related impacts of immigrant policing to examine the role of policy in shaping health inequality in the U.S., and responds to fundamental questions regarding biopolitics, especially how policy can reinforce 'race' as a vehicle of social division. He argues that immigration enforcement policy results in a shadow medical system, shapes immigrants' health and interpersonal relationships, and has health-related impacts that extend beyond immigrants to affect health providers, immigrant rights groups, hospitals, and the overall health system. Pathogenic Policing follows current immigrant policing regimes in Georgia and contextualizes contemporary legislation and law enforcement practices against a backdrop of historical forms of political exclusion from health and social services for all undocumented immigrants in the U.S. For anyone concerned about the health of the most vulnerable among us, and those who interact with the overall health safety net, this will be an eye-opening read.
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Faith And The Pursuit Of Health - Cardiometabolic Disorders In Samoa

by Jessica Hardin

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 Explores how Pentecostal Christians manage chronic illness in ways that shed light on health disparities and social suffering in Samoa. Examining how Pentecostal Christianity provides tools to manage issues around health and sickness, Jessica Hardin argues for understanding the synergies between how Christianity and biomedicine practice chronicity.
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Infected Kin - Orphan Care And Aids In Lesotho

by Ellen Block e Will Mcgrath

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 AIDS has devastated communities across southern Africa. In Lesotho, the wide-ranging implications of the disease have been felt in every family, disrupting key aspects of social life. Ellen Block and Will McGrath argue that AIDS is fundamentally a kinship disease, and examine the ways it seeps into kin relations and networks of care.
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Landscapes Of Activism - Civil Society, Hiv And Aids Care In Northern Mozambique

by Joel Christian Reed

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 AIDS activists are often romanticized as extremely noble and selfless. However, the relationships among HIV support group members highlighted in Landscapes of Activism are hardly utopian or ideal. The product of in-depth ethnography and focused anthropological inquiry, this is the first book on AIDS activists in Mozambique.
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International Surrogacy As Disruptive Industry In Southeast Asia

by Andrea Whittaker

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 During the last two decades, a new form of trade in commercial surrogacy grew across Asia. Starting in India, a "disruptive" model of surrogacy offered mass availability, rapid accessibility, and created new demands for surrogacy services from people who could not afford or access surrogacy elsewhere. In International Surrogacy as Disruptive Industry in Southeast Asia, Andrea Whittaker traces the development of this industry and its movement across Southeast Asia following a sequence of governmental bans in India, Nepal, Thailand, and Cambodia. Through a case study of the industry in Thailand, the book offers a nuanced and sympathetic examination of the industry from the perspectives of the people involved in it: surrogates, intended parents, and facilitators. The industry offers intended parents the opportunity to form much desired families, but also creates vulnerabilities for all people involved. These vulnerabilities became evident in cases of trafficking, exploitation, and criminality that emerged in southeast Asia, leading to greater scrutiny on the industry as a whole. Yet the trade continues in new flexible hybrid forms, involving the circulation of reproductive gametes, embryos, surrogates, and ova donors across international borders to circumvent regulations. The book demonstrates the need for new forms of regulation to protect those involved in international surrogacy arrangements.
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