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  • A Farm Girl's Scattered Memories of the Way We Were

    by Anna Harris ...
    About the BookOne day Anna Harris was remembering growing up on a farm in Leavenworth, KS. As she thought about that, she began to write the memories of things that had happened during her life. She thought it would be fun to share her memories with her community. She began writing a new story each week for her local newspaper. She had so many folks telling her as each story was written how much ... Read more

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  • Reconstruction, Replication and Re-enactment in the Humanities and Social Sciences

    Performative methods are playing an increasingly prominent role in research into historical production processes, materials, bodily knowledge and sensory skills, and in forms of education and public engagement in classrooms and museums. This book offers, for the first time, sustained, interdisciplinary reflections on performative methods, variously known as Reconstruction, Replication and Re ... Read more

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  • Making Sense of Medicine

    Material Culture and the Reproduction of Medical Knowledge

    Edited by John Nott, Anna Harris ...
    Series series Global Health Humanities
    Medical knowledge manifests in materials, and materials are integral to the reproduction of medical knowledge. From the novice student to the expert practitioner, those who study and work in and around medicine rely on material guidance in their everyday practice and as they seek to further their craft.Students, just as experts, pore over textbooks, photographs and films. They put up and copy down ... Read more

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  • Stethoscope

    The Making of a Medical Icon

    This book explores the colourful past, present and future of an instrument that is, quite literally, close to our hearts. The stethoscope has become the symbol of medicine itself, but how did this come to be? What makes the stethoscope such a familiar and yet charismatic object?Drawing from a range of fields including history, anthropology, science, technology and sound studies, the book ... Read more

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  • A Patriots Voice

    Under Democrat Rule

    by Anna Harris ...
    These poems represent my feelings and disgust of the rapid self inflicted decline of the United States of America under Democrat rule. God Bless America ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • CyberGenetics

    Health genetics and new media

    Series series Genetics and Society
    Online genetic testing services are increasingly being offered to consumers who are becoming exposed to, and knowledgeable about, new kinds of genetic technologies, as the launch of a 23andme genetic testing product in the UK testifies. Genetic research breakthroughs, cheek swabbing forensic pathologists and celebrities discovering their ancestral roots are littered throughout the North American, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • A Sensory Education

    by Anna Harris ...
    Series series Sensory Studies
    A Sensory Education takes a close look at how sensory awareness is learned and taught in expert and everyday settings around the world. Anna Harris shows that our sensing is not innate or acquired, but in fact evolves through learning that is shaped by social and material relations. The chapters feature diverse sources of sensory education, including field manuals, mannequins, cookbooks and ... Read more

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    From the potent properties of X rays evoked in Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain to the miniaturized surgical team of the classic science fiction film Fantastic Voyage, the possibility of peering into the inner reaches of the body has engaged the twentieth-century popular and scientific imagination. Drawing on examples that are international in scope, The Transparent Body examines the dissemination of ... Read more

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  • Certain Girls

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    In 1965, the architect and design theorist Christopher Alexander published a landmark theoretical critique of modern urban design, and by extension, modern design in general. His critique was different from others of the day in that it was not based on a social or political argument, but on a structural analysis, rooted in then-emerging insights from the fields of mathematics and cognition. Here, ... Read more

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  • Complications

    A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

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    $11.99 USD

  • Doctors in Denial

    Why Big Pharma and the Canadian medical profession are too close for comfort

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