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  • Obstetricians Speak

    On Training, Practice, Fear, and Transformation

    Edited by Robbie Davis-Floyd, Ashish Premkumar ...
    Series Book 1 - The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice, Maintenance, and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession
    For the first time ever in a social science work, obstetricians tell their own stories of training, practice, fear, and transformation in this the first of the 3-volume series The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice, Maintenance, and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession.These stories range from those of abortion providers to those of maternal-fetal medicine specialists. ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Cognition, Risk, and Responsibility in Obstetrics

    Anthropological Analyses and Critiques of Obstetricians’ Practices

    Edited by Robbie Davis-Floyd, Ashish Premkumar ...
    Series Book 2 - The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice, Maintenance, and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession
    Volume 2 in this landmark 3-volume series The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice, Maintenance, and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession looks at cognition, risk, and responsibility in obstetrics.This volume contains social science analyses of Swiss, Chilean, Mexican, US, Greek, and Irish obstetrics and obstetricians, particularly around their reasons for the overuse of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Obstetric Violence and Systemic Disparities

    Can Obstetrics Be Humanized and Decolonized?

    Edited by Robbie Davis-Floyd, Ashish Premkumar ...
    Series Book 3 - The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice, Maintenance, and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession
    The final volume in this landmark 3-volume series The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice, Maintenance, and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession looks at the challenges, and even violence, that obstetricians face across the world.Part I of this volume addresses obstetric violence and systemic racial, ethnic, gendered, and socio-structural disparities in obstetricians’ ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • The Limitations of Household Surveys: Methodological Considerations in the Selection of the Unit of Analysis

    by Rodolfo Tello ...
    One of the most widely used methods of socioeconomic data collection employed by international development and environmental conservation organizations is household surveys. The information gathered in such surveys is frequently used to support a variety of arguments, but the methodological aspects of these surveys are rarely discussed. The anthropological literature on households, however, has ... Read more

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  • The Year of Disappearances

    Political Killings in Cork 1921-1922

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  • Observation and Experiment

    An Introduction to Causal Inference

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  • First Contact

    Teaching and Learning in Introductory Sociology

    by Nancy A. Greenwood, Jay R. Howard ...
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  • Toward the Validation of Dynamic Psychotherapy

    A Replication

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  • Weber and Durkheim

    A Methodological Comparison

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  • Delivering Home-Based Services

    A Social Work Perspective

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    Smelser's much-referenced collection of writings on issues of sociological theory and practice--by one of the world's leading social scientists of the past half-century. This informative book is now republished in the Classics of the Social Sciences Series from Quid Pro Books. Quality ebook formatting includes active TOC, linked chapter endnotes, and legible graphs and images from the original. ... Read more

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