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    The Disappearers

    A Novel

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    23 hora

    From Marlon James, author of the Booker Prize–winning A Brief History of Seven Killings: a propulsive novel about the murder of a gay man in 1980s Jamaica and its tragic consequencesIn 1988, eight men in Kingston, Jamaica, begin rehearsals for a play. The men are strangers to one another and each has a different reason for being involved. But they all share one inescapable truth: All of them are ... Leer más

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  • Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century

    Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century provides readers with a comprehensive survey of topics, methodologies, and theories in the discipline, drawing on contributions from leading anthropologists around the world. As a discipline, medical anthropology provides situational analysis of health, disease, and disability to show how the experiences of medical experts, patients, and ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Metabolic Living

    Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India

    Series series Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
    The popular narrative of "globesity" posits that the adoption of Western diets is intensifying obesity and diabetes in the Global South and that disordered metabolisms are the embodied consequence of globalization and excess. In Metabolic Living Harris Solomon recasts these narratives by examining how people in Mumbai, India, experience the porosity between food, fat, the body, and the city. ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

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    Test, The

    Completo

    18 minutos

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.“The Test,” we are introduced to Elijah Carter, a seventeen-year-old young man whose life is suddenly overturned by accusation and doubt. Known within Mercy Chapel Church as faithful and upright, Elijah finds his character questioned when a theft implicates him in a crime he did not commit.As suspicion replaces trust and silence replaces support, ... Leer más

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    Series series Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
    This second edition of A Companion to Bioethics, fully revised and updated to reflect the current issues and developments in the field, covers all the material that the reader needs to thoroughly grasp the ideas and debates involved in bioethics.Thematically organized around an unparalleled range of issues, including discussion of the moral status of embryos and fetuses, new genetics, life and ... Leer más

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  • Gender

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    Series series What Everyone Needs to Know
    The term "gender" was first distinguished from "sex" in the 1950s when psychologists began to discuss the idea of "gender roles," behaviors and responsibilities given to people by a society rather than flowing from their biology. Since then, leaders across disciplines have sought to better understand the roles of biology, psychology, and culture on gender. New language has emerged alongside rich ... Leer más

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  • Inclusion

    The Politics of Difference in Medical Research

    With Inclusion, Steven Epstein argues that strategies to achieve diversity in medical research mask deeper problems, ones that might require a different approach and different solutions.Formal concern with this issue, Epstein shows, is a fairly recent phenomenon. Until the mid-1980s, scientists often studied groups of white, middle-aged men—and assumed that conclusions drawn from studying them ... Leer más

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  • When People Come First

    Critical Studies in Global Health

    Edición de João Biehl, Adriana Petryna ...
    A people-centered approach to global healthWhen People Come First critically assesses the expanding field of global health. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address the medical, social, political, and economic dimensions of the global health enterprise through vivid case studies and bold conceptual work. The book demonstrates the crucial role of ... Leer más

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  • A Companion to Medical Anthropology

    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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  • Seizing the Means of Reproduction

    Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience

    de M. Murphy ...
    Series series Experimental futures
    In Seizing the Means of Reproduction, M. Murphy's initial focus on the alternative health practices developed by radical feminists in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s opens into a sophisticated analysis of the transnational entanglements of American empire, population control, neoliberalism, and late-twentieth-century feminisms. Murphy concentrates on the technoscientific means—the ... Leer más

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  • An Anthropology of Biomedicine

    An Anthropology of Biomedicine is an exciting new introduction to biomedicine and its global implications. Focusing on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies bring about radical changes to societies at large, cultural anthropologist Margaret Lock and her co-author physician and medical anthropologist Vinh-Kim Nguyen develop and integrate the thesis that the human body in ... Leer más

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  • Philosophy for Public Health and Public Policy

    Beyond the Neglectful State

    de James Wilson ...
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