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  • Revisiting HIV/AIDS in French Culture

    Raw Matters

    by Loïc Bourdeau, V. Hunter Capps, Brian J. Troth, CJ Gomolka, Daniel Nabil Maroun, David Caron, João Florêncio, John Ashburn, Lucille Toth0 ...
    This edited collection brings together scholarship from established and emerging scholars in HIV/AIDS studies, French studies, Visual Arts, and Dance. As French writers and artists from the past five to ten years have been revisiting the AIDS crisis and its attendant cultural amnesia, their work has brought about the necessity of foregrounding vulnerability, exposure, risk, citizenship, and trauma ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Embodied Narratives in the Health Humanities and Literary Studies

    Edited by Eftihia Mihelakis, Lucille Toth ...
    Embodied Narratives in the Health Humanities and Literary Studies bridges the gap between literary studies and health humanities, highlighting the transformative power of storytelling and the significance of the physical act of writing. From embodied narratives to cultural and historical contexts, this collection seeks to reshape our understanding of disease and illness.Rooted in the belief that ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

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    Sex Facts, Gender Fictions

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    Sex used to rule. Now gender identity is on the throne. Sex survives as a cheap imitation of its former self: assigned at birth, on a spectrum, socially constructed, and definitely not binary. Apparently quite a few of us fall outside the categories ‘male’ and ‘female’. But gender identity is said to be universal – we all have one. Humanity used to be cleaved into two sexes, whereas now the ... Read more

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  • The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine

    by Rita Charon, Sayantani DasGupta, Nellie Hermann, Craig Irvine, Eric R. Marcus, Edgar Rivera Colsn, Danielle Spencer, Maura Spiegel ...
    Narrative medicine is a fresh discipline of health care that helps patients and health professionals to tell and listen to the complex and unique stories of illness. The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine expresses the collective experience and discoveries of the originators of the field. Arising at Columbia University in 2000 from roots in the humanities and patient-centered care, ... Read more

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  • The Intellectual Roots of Grounded Theory

    by Jane Gilgun ...
    Grounded theory is an open-ended approach to research that can be adapted to many uses. This article shows how adaptable grounded theory is and was meant to be. Originating in the Chicago school of Sociology about 100 years ago, GT does not have to be about technicalities, but researchers can use it as an adaptable and open-ended approach to developing understandings of human situations.When ... Read more

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  • Talking Heads

    The New Science of How Conversation Shapes Our Worlds

    by Shane O'Mara ...
    From neurons to nations, Talking Heads is a stunning survey of the science of human connection and communication.'Delightfully well-written' IRISH TIMES'Intriguing ... Makes for an enjoyable read' NEW SCIENTIST'Full of good stories' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENTTalking to each other is a primal behaviour. It’s a key part of what makes us human. Yet the science o... ... Read more

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  • Reflexivity and Qualitative Research

    by Jane Gilgun ...
    Researchers' own experiences affect every aspect of the research they do, from conceptualization of the issues to be researched, relationships with research participants, to interpretation of findings, to writing up results, to dissemination. This article discusses reflexivity and provides examples of what it is.Reflexivity is important topic for qualitative researchers to consider and to ... Read more

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  • Academic Writing: An Introduction - Fourth Edition

    by Janet Giltrow, Richard Gooding, Daniel Burgoyne ...
    Academic Writing has been widely acclaimed in all its editions as a superb textbook—and an important contribution to the pedagogy of introducing students to the conventions of academic writing. The book seeks to introduce student readers to the lively community of research and writing beyond the classroom, with its complex interactions, values, and goals. It presents writing from a range of ... Read more

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  • Diminished Faculties

    A Political Phenomenology of Impairment

    by Jonathan Sterne ...
    In Diminished Faculties Jonathan Sterne offers a sweeping cultural study and theorization of impairment. Drawing on his personal history with thyroid cancer and a paralyzed vocal cord, Sterne undertakes a political phenomenology of impairment in which experience is understood from the standpoint of a subject that is not fully able to account for itself. He conceives of impairment as a fundamental ... Read more

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  • Being Ill

    On Sickness, Care and Abandonment

    by Professor Neil Vickers, Prof Derek Bolton ...
    A serious illness often changes the way others see us. Few, if any, relationships remain the same. The sick become more dependent on partners and family members, while more distant contacts become strained. The carers of the ill are also often isolated. This book focuses on our sense of self when ill and how infirmity plays out in our relationships with others.Neil Vickers and Derek Bolton offer ... Read more

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  • Against Health

    How Health Became the New Morality

    Edited by Jonathan M. Metzl, Anna Kirkland ...
    Series Book 18 - Biopolitics
    Navigates the divergent cultural meanings of health, and its entanglement with morality in current political discourseYou see someone smoking a cigarette and say,“Smoking is bad for your health,” when what you mean is, “You are a bad person because you smoke.” You encounter someone whose body size you deem excessive, and say, “Obesity is bad for your health,” when what you mean is, “You are lazy, ... Read more

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  • Music Asylums: Wellbeing Through Music in Everyday Life

    by Tia DeNora ...
    Series series Music and Change: Ecological Perspectives
    Taking a cue from Erving Goffman’s classic work, Asylums, Tia DeNora develops a novel interdisciplinary framework for music, health and wellbeing. Considering health and illness both in medical contexts and in the often-overlooked realm of everyday life, DeNora argues that these identities are by no means mutually exclusive. Moreover, she suggests that the promotion of health and more specifically ... Read more

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