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  • Critical Reflections on Audience and Narrativity

    New connections, New perspectives

    by Bianca Mitu, Valentina Marinescu, Daniela Schluetz, Mathieu Pierre, Beate Schneider, Michael Fuchs, Michael Wayne, Inbar Kaminsky0, Oliver Kroener1, Atene Mendelyte2, Raquel Galvez3, Enric Zofio4, Rodrigo Mesonero5, Marc Perello-Sobrepere6, Lilian Moreira7, Natasa Bajic8, Maria Dicieanu9, Nuran Isik0, Carmen Arana1, Maria Gavilan2, Lourdes Gutierrez3, Tania Benitez4 ...
    "Critical Reflections on Audience and Narrativity—New connections, New perspectives" offers an interdisciplinary and multicultural approach to fiction, reality, and narrativity applied to television series from all over the world. Dissecting the almost invisible barrier between fiction and reality in TV series from various perspectives, the chapters cover a wide range of contemporary classics from ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Health and the Media

    Essays on the Effects of Mass Communication

    Edited by Valentina Marinescu, Bianca Mitu ...
    Analyzing the relationship between medicine and the media from different perspectives, these new essays fill a gap in this emerging field, providing new information on approaches to health communication and important reevaluations of health literacy theories.The contributors discuss ideas and methodologies across a range of topics, including multifaceted health communication, media coverage of ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Media Events

    A Critical Contemporary Approach

    Edited by Bianca Mitu, Stamatis Poulakidakos ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Media Events: A Critical Contemporary Approach proposes an interdisciplinary and multicultural approach of Dayan and Katz's theory of media events (1992) by applying it to contemporary situations. The contributing authors come from a range of countries (UK, USA, Mexico, Germany, Finland, Italy, Greece, Portugal, Ukraine) and analyse the theory of media events from different perspectives, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Power of the Media in Health Communication

    by Valentina Marinescu, Bianca Mitu ...
    Health is a contested concept that has been defined in numerous ways. The media is extremely powerful in promoting health beliefs and in creating role models for contemporary people. The ways in which health is defined or understood can have wide-ranging implications and can have an impact on issues such as health promotion or health literacy. Health presentation in the media has a significant ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Limits to Medicine

    Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health

    by Ivan Illich ...
    The medical establishment has become a major threat to health'. So begins Ivan Illich's spirited and reasoned attack upon the mythic prestige of contemporary medicines, examining the customs and rituals conducted by the medical profession. Relentlessly and with full documentation taken from recognized medical sources Illich proves the impotence of medical services to change life expectancy, the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Partner to the Poor

    A Paul Farmer Reader

    by Paul Farmer ...
    Series Book 23 - California Series in Public Anthropology
    For nearly thirty years, anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer has traveled to some of the most impoverished places on earth to bring comfort and the best possible medical care to the poorest of the poor. Driven by his stated intent to "make human rights substantial," Farmer has treated patients—and worked to address the root causes of their disease—in Haiti, Boston, Peru, Rwanda, and elsewhere ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine

    A History of Mind-Body Medicine

    by Anne Harrington ...
    "A splendid history of mind-body medicine...a book that desperately needed to be written."—Jerome Groopman, New York TimesIs stress a deadly disease on the rise in modern society? Can mind-body practices from the East help us become well? When it comes to healing, we believe we must look beyond doctors and drugs; we must look within ourselves. Faith, relationships, and attitude matter.But why do ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • "You're in the Wrong Bathroom!"

    And 20 Other Myths and Misconceptions About Transgender and Gender-NonconformingPeople

    by Laura Erickson-Schroth, Laura A. Jacobs ...
    Series Book 6 - Myths Made in America
    This “insightful and instructive primer” debunks the twenty-one most common myths and misconceptions about transgender issues—“buy this book and share it with [your] whole family” (Bust)From Laverne Cox and Caitlyn Jenner to Thomas Beatie (“the pregnant man”) and transgender youth, coverage of trans lives has been exploding—yet so much misinformation persists. Bringing together the medical, social ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Companion to Medical Anthropology

    Edited by Merrill Singer, Pamela I. Erickson ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
    A Companion to Medical Anthropology examines the current issues, controversies, and state of the field in medical anthropology today.Provides an expert view of the major topics and themes to concern the discipline since its founding in the 1960sWritten by leading international scholars in medical anthropologyCovers environmental health, global health, biotechnology, syndemics, nutrition, substance ... Read more

    $48.00 USD

  • An Anthropology of Biomedicine

    by Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Margaret M. Lock ...
    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 ... Read more

    $68.50 USD

  • Narcocapitalism

    Life in the Age of Anaesthesia

    by Laurent de Sutter ...
    Translated by Barnaby Norman ...
    What do the invention of anaesthetics in the middle of the nineteenth century, the Nazis' use of cocaine, and the development of Prozac have in common? The answer is that they're all products of the same logic that defines our contemporary era: 'the age of anaesthesia'. Laurent de Sutter shows how large aspects of our lives are now characterised by the management of our emotions through drugs, ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • 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

    $26.59 USD