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To Fix Or To Heal - Patient Care, Public Health, And The Limits Of Biomedicine

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 Do doctors fix patients? Or do they heal them? For all of modern medicine’s many successes, discontent with the quality of patient care has combined with a host of new developments, from aging populations to the resurgence of infectious diseases, which challenge medicine’s overreliance on narrowly mechanistic and technical methods of explanation and intervention, or "fixing’ patients. The need for a better balance, for more humane "healing" rationales and practices that attend to the social and environmental aspects of health and illness and the experiencing person, is more urgent than ever. Yet, in public health and bioethics, the fields best positioned to offer countervailing values and orientations, the dominant approaches largely extend and reinforce the reductionism and individualism of biomedicine. The collected essays in To Fix or To Heal do more than document the persistence of reductionist approaches and the attendant extension of medicalization to more and more aspects of our lives. The contributors also shed valuable light on why reductionism has persisted and why more holistic models, incorporating social and environmental factors, have gained so little traction. The contributors examine the moral appeal of reductionism, the larger rationalist dream of technological mastery, the growing valuation of health, and the enshrining of individual responsibility as the seemingly non-coercive means of intervention and control. This paradigm-challenging volume advances new lines of criticism of our dominant medical regime, even while proposing ways of bringing medical practice, bioethics, and public health more closely into line with their original goals. Precisely because of the centrality of the biomedical approach to our society, the contributors argue, challenging the reductionist model and its ever-widening effects is perhaps the best way to press for a much-needed renewal of our ethical and political discourse.
Heart-Sick - The Politics Of Risk, Inequality, And Heart Disease

by Janet K. Shim

31,79€ + 10% CARD

 Examining the routine activities of epidemiology - grant applications, data collection, representations of research findings, and post-publication discussions of the interpretations and implications of study results, this book shows how social differences of race, social class, and gender are upheld by the scientific community.
Contesting Intersex - The Dubious Diagnosis

by Georgiann Davis

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 Winner, 2017 Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, presented by the American Sociological Association Winner, 2016 Donald Light Award for the Applied or Public Practice of Medical Sociology, presented by the American Sociological Association A personal, compelling perspective on how medical diagnoses can profoundly hurt, or help, the lived experiences of entire communities When sociologist Georgiann Davis was a teenager, her doctors discovered that she possessed XY chromosomes, marking her as intersex. Rather than share this information with her, they withheld the diagnosis in order to "protect" the development of her gender identity; it was years before Davis would see her own medical records as an adult and learn the truth. Davis’ experience is not unusual. Many intersex people feel isolated from one another and violated by medical practices that support conventional notions of the male/female sex binary which have historically led to secrecy and shame about being intersex. Yet, the rise of intersex activism and visibility in the US has called into question the practice of classifying intersex as an abnormality, rather than as a mere biological variation. This shift in thinking has the potential to transform entrenched intersex medical treatment. In Contesting Intersex, Davis draws on interviews with intersex people, their parents, and medical experts to explore the oft-questioned views on intersex in medical and activist communities, as well as the evolution of thought in regards to intersex visibility and transparency. She finds that framing intersex as an abnormality is harmful and can alter the course of one’s life. In fact, controversy over this framing continues, as intersex has been renamed a ‘disorder of sex development’ throughout medicine. This happened, she suggests, as a means for doctors to reassert their authority over the intersex body in the face of increasing intersex activism in the 1990s and feminist critiques of intersex medical treatment. Davis argues the renaming of ‘intersex’ as a ‘disorder of sex development’ is strong evidence that the intersex diagnosis is dubious. Within the intersex community, though, disorder of sex development terminology is hotly disputed; some prefer not to use a term which pathologizes their bodies, while others prefer to think of intersex in scientific terms. Although terminology is currently a source of tension within the movement, Davis hopes intersex activists and their allies can come together to improve the lives of intersex people, their families, and future generations. However, for this to happen, the intersex diagnosis, as well as sex, gender, and sexuality, needs to be understood as socially constructed phenomena. A personal journey into medical and social activism, Contesting Intersex presents a unique perspective on how medical diagnoses can affect lives profoundly. Ask us about setting up a Skype-in with the author for your class Watch Georgiann Davis in National Geographic''s Gender Revolution documentary with Katie Couric
Plucked - A History Of Hair Removal

by Rebecca M. Herzig

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 Uncovers the history of hair removal practices and sheds light on the prolific culture of beauty From the clamshell razors and homemade lye depilatories used in colonial America to the diode lasers and prescription pharmaceuticals available today, Americans have used a staggering array of tools to remove hair deemed unsightly, unnatural, or excessive. This is true especially for women and girls; conservative estimates indicate that 99% of American women have tried hair removal, and at least 85% regularly remove hair from their faces, armpits, legs, and bikini lines. How and when does hair become a problem—what makes some growth "excessive"? Who or what separates the necessary from the superfluous? In Plucked, historian Rebecca Herzig addresses these questions about hair removal. She shows how, over time, dominant American beliefs about visible hair changed: where once elective hair removal was considered a "mutilation" practiced primarily by "savage" men, by the turn of the twentieth century, hair-free faces and limbs were expected for women. Visible hair growth—particularly on young, white women—came to be perceived as a sign of political extremism, sexual deviance, or mental illness. By the turn of the twenty-first century, more and more Americans were waxing, threading, shaving, or lasering themselves smooth. Herzig’s extraordinary account also reveals some of the collateral damages of the intensifying pursuit of hair-free skin. Moving beyond the experiences of particular patients or clients, Herzig describes the surprising histories of race, science, industry, and medicine behind today''s hair-removing tools. Plucked is an unsettling, gripping, and original tale of the lengths to which Americans will go to remove hair.
Men At Risk - Masculinity, Heterosexuality And Hiv Prevention

by Shari L. Dworkin

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 Presents a unique approach to HIV prevention at the intersection of sociological and public health research Although the first AIDS cases were attributed to men having sex with men, over 70% of HIV infections worldwide are now estimated to occur through sex between women and men. In Men at Risk, Shari L. Dworkin argues that the centrality of heterosexual relationship dynamics to the transmission of HIV means that both women and men need to be taken into account in gender-specific HIV/AIDS prevention interventions. She looks at the "costs of masculinity" that shape men’s HIV risks, such as their initiation of sex and their increased status from sex with multiple partners. Engaging with the common paradigm in HIV research that portrays only women—and not heterosexually active men—as being "vulnerable" to HIV, Dworkin examines the gaps in public health knowledge that result in substandard treatment for HIV transmission and infection among heterosexual men both domestically and globally. She examines a vast array of structural factors that shape men’s HIV transmission risks and also focuses on a relatively new category of global health programs with men known as "gender-transformative" that seeks to move men in the direction of gender equality in the name of improved health. Dworkin makes suggestions for the next generation of gender-transformative health interventions by calling for masculinities-based and structurally driven HIV prevention programming. Thoroughly researched and theoretically grounded, Men at Risk presents a unique approach to HIV prevention at the intersection of sociological and public health research.
Missing Bodies - The Politics Of Visibility

by Lisa Jean Moore e Monica Casper

30,46€ + 10% CARD

 Explores the surveillance, manipulations, erasures, and visibility of the body in the twenty-first century
Phantom Limb - Amputation, Embodiment, And Prosthetic Technology

by Cassandra S. Crawford

31,79€ + 10% CARD

 Critically examines phantom limb pain and its relationship to prosthetic innovation, tracing the major shifts in knowledge of the causes and characteristics of the phenomenon.
Eating Drugs - Psychopharmaceutical Pluralism In India

by Stefan Ecks

71,55€ + 10% CARD

 A Hindu monk in Calcutta refuses to take his psychotropic medications. His psychiatrist explains that just as his body needs food, the drugs are nutrition for his starved mind. Does it matter how - or whether - patients understand their prescribed drugs? This book illuminates how biomedical, Ayurvedic, and homeopathic treatments are used in India.
Against Health - How Health Became The New Morality

27,81€ + 10% CARD

 Argues that health is a concept, a norm, and a set of bodily practices whose ideological work is often rendered invisible by the assumption that it is a monolithic, universal good
Biopolitics - An Advanced Introduction

by Thomas Lemke

25,16€ + 10% CARD

 Offers a systematic overview of bio-politics, exploring its relevance in contemporary theoretical debates and providing a much needed primer on the topic
Material Gene - Gender, Race, And Heredity After The Human Genome Project

by Kelly E. Happe

30,46€ + 10% CARD

 Situates contemporary genomics within a history of genetics research yet is attentive to the new ways in which knowledge claims about heredity, race, and gender emerge and are articulated
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Indigenous Memory, Urban Reality - Stories Of American Indian Relocation And Reclamation

by Michelle R. Jacobs

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Managing Diabetes - The Cultural Politics Of Disease

by Jeffrey A. Bennett

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Plucked - A History Of Hair Removal

by Rebecca M. Herzig

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Narratives Of Guilt And Innocence - The Power Of Storytelling In Wrongful Conviction Cases

by Ralph Grunewald

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 Narratives of Guilt and Innocence puts wrongful convictions into an interdisciplinary and comparative context and vividly demonstrates just how much the process of storytelling affects legal reality. Ralph Grunewald provides a retelling and reading of well-known miscarriages of justice, including the best-known wrongful conviction in Germany.
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Christian Nationalism And The Birth Of The War On Drugs

by Andrew Monteith

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Queer Judaism - Lgbt Activism And The Remaking Of Jewish Orthodoxy In Israel

by Orit Avishai

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Queer Judaism - Lgbt Activism And The Remaking Of Jewish Orthodoxy In Israel

by Orit Avishai

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Freezing Fertility - Oocyte Cryopreservation And The Gender Politics Of Aging

by Lucy Van De Wiel

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Feeling Medicine - How The Pelvic Exam Shapes Medical Training

by Kelly Underman

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Promoting Democracy - The Force Of Political Settlements In Uncertain Times

by Manal A. Jamal

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Our Voices, Our Histories - Asian American And Pacific Islander Women

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Stay Woke - A People'S Guide To Making All Black Lives Matter

by Candis Watts Smith e Tehama Lopez Bunyasi

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Managing Diabetes - The Cultural Politics Of Disease

by Jeffrey A. Bennett

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