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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “bettina hitzer”
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  • Feeling Dis-ease in Modern History

    Experiencing Medicine and Illness

    Edited by Rob Boddice, Bettina Hitzer ...
    Series series History of Emotions
    This book explores experiences of illness, broadly construed. It encompasses the emotional and sensory disruptions that attend disease, injury, mental illness or trauma, and gives an account of how medical practitioners, experts, lay authorities and the public have felt about such disruptions.Considering all sides of the medical encounter and highlighting the intersection of intellectual history ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • The History of Cancer and Emotions in Twentieth-Century Germany

    by Bettina Hitzer ...
    Translated by Adam Bresnahan ...
    Series series Emotions in History
    Different people feel different emotions when they are diagnosed with cancer. Both today and a century ago, fear and hope, shame and disgust, sadness and joy are and were the emotions experienced by many cancer patients and their loved ones. But these emotions do not just have significance for the people who feel them. They have also exerted a surprisingly profound influence on how hospitals and ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Osiris, Volume 31

    History of Science and the Emotions

    Edited by Otniel E. Dror, Bettina Hitzer, Anja Laukötter, Pilar León-Sanz ...
    Series Book 31 - Osiris
    What new insights become available for historians when emotions are included as an analytical category? This volume of Osiris explores the historical interrelationships between science and its cultures and cultures of emotions. It argues that a dialogue between the history of emotions and the history of science leads to a rethinking of our categories of analysis, our subjects, and our ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Nobody's Normal

    How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

    by Roy Richard Grinker ...
    A compassionate and captivating examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma.For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody’s Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma—from ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • Madness

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Andrew Scull ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Madness is something that frightens and fascinates us all. It is a word with which we are universally familiar, and a condition that haunts the human imagination. Through the centuries, in poetry and in prose, in drama and in the visual arts, its depredations are on display for all to see. A whole industry has grown up, devoted to its management and suppression. Madness profoundly disturbs our ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Am I Normal?

    The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don’t Exist)

    by Sarah Chaney ...
    *As heard on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour**A Blackwell's and Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2022*'Excellent ... one of those rare pop-science books that make you look at the whole world differently' The Daily Telegraph *****'Riveting' Mail on Sunday *****'Captivating' Guardian, Book of the Day'Compelling'... ... Read more

    $10.19 USD

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  • Politics of the Mind

    Marxism and Mental Distress

    by Iain Ferguson ...
    Mental ill health has become one of the key 'public issues' of the 21st century. According to the World Health Organization, depression currently affects 350 million people. Politics of the Mind: Marxism and Mental Distress looks at the link between the economic and political system under which we live - capitalism - and the enormously high levels of mental ill-health which we see in the world ... Read more

    $10.09 USD

  • Epidemic Illusions

    On the Coloniality of Global Public Health

    by Eugene T Richardson ...
    A physician-anthropologist explores how public health practices--from epidemiological modeling to outbreak containment--help perpetuate global inequities.In Epidemic Illusions, Eugene Richardson, a physician and an anthropologist, contends that public health practices--from epidemiological modeling and outbreak containment to Big Data and causal inference--play an essential role in perpetuating a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Addiction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Keith Humphreys ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Addiction is a subject which straddles public and personal interests; societal and criminal justice concerns; and family, social, and medical responses. It is a continuing area of uncertainty and concern for society and professionals trained in the field. This Very Short Introduction presents the basic facts about addiction: what it is, how ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Concerto for the Left Hand

    Disability and the Defamiliar Body

    by Michael Davidson ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    "Professor Davidson---an accomplished literary critic---offers a focused and balanced analysis of poetry, film, and the arts honed with his excellent knowledge of the latest advances in disability studies. He is brilliant at reading texts in a sophisticated and aesthetically pleasurable way, making Concerto for the Left Hand one of the smartest books to date in disability studies."---Lennard Davis ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • 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

    $20.19 USD