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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “boel berner”
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  • Technology and Medical Practice

    Blood, Guts and Machines

    by Boel Berner ...
    Series series Theory, Technology and Society
    The advanced technologies being used in diagnosis and care within modern medicine, whilst supporting and making medical practices possible, may also conflict with established traditions of medicine and care. What happens to the patient in a technologized medical environment? How are doctors', nurses' and medical scientists' practices changed when artefacts are involved? How is knowledge negotiated ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Manoeuvring in an Environment of Uncertainty

    Structural Change and Social Action in Sub-Saharan Africa

    by Boel Berner, Per Trulsson ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2000. Recent years have seen tremendous economic and political changes in Sub-Saharan Africa. The contributors to this volume focus on the pressing problem of how actors in their everyday life, political and social action handle uncertainty. With the help of rich empirical material from different countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, the authors try to understand how ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Constructing Risk and Safety in Technological Practice

    Edited by Boel Berner, Jane Summerton ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Modern technological systems entail risks and uncertainties of hitherto unknown dimensions. This book discusses the construction of risk and safety within a variety of empirical contexts where technologies and their risk are debated and handled by individuals, groups or organizations. With contributions from leading scholars from Europe and the USA, it presents original theoretical discussions, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • Global Governance and the New Wars

    The Merging of Development and Security

    by Mark Duffield ...
    Series series Critique Influence Change
    In this hugely influential book, originally published in 2001 but just as - if not more - relevant today, Mark Duffield shows how war has become an integral component of development discourse. Aid agencies have become increasingly involved in humanitarian assistance, conflict resolution and the social reconstruction of war-torn societies. Duffield explores the consequences of this growing merger ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Body Multiple

    Ontology in Medical Practice

    by Annemarie Mol, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub ...
    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    The Body Multiple is an extraordinary ethnography of an ordinary disease. Drawing on fieldwork in a Dutch university hospital, Annemarie Mol looks at the day-to-day diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis. A patient information leaflet might describe atherosclerosis as the gradual obstruction of the arteries, but in hospital practice this one medical condition appears to be many other things. ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • Development, Security and Unending War

    Governing the World of Peoples

    by Mark Duffield ...
    According to politicians, we now live in a radically interconnected world. Unless there is international stability – even in the most distant places – the West's way of life is threatened. In meeting this global danger, reducing poverty and developing the unstable regions of the world are now imperative. In what has become a truism of the post-Cold War period, security without development is ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • New Genetics, New Identities

    Edited by Paul Atkinson, Peter Glasner, Helen Greenslade ...
    Series series Genetics and Society
    What implications are applications of new genetic technologies in biomedicine having on social identity in today’s society?New Genetics, New Identities, a wide-ranging multi-disciplinary volume in the CESAGen Genetics & Society Book series, presents not only theoretical reflection but also empirical case studies drawn from an international array of authors. Including the highly controversial areas ... Read more

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  • African Politics in Comparative Perspective

    by Goran Hyden ...
    This revised and expanded second edition of African Politics in Comparative Perspective reviews fifty years of research on politics in Africa and addresses some issues in a new light, keeping in mind the changes in Africa since the first edition was written in 2004. The book synthesizes insights from different scholarly approaches and offers an original interpretation of the knowledge accumulated ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Africa

    The Politics of Suffering and Smiling

    by Patrick Chabal ...
    Series series World Political Theories
    The question usually asked about Africa is: 'why is it going wrong?' Is the continent still suffering from the ravages of colonialism? Or is it the victim of postcolonial economic exploitation, poor governance and lack of aid? Whatever the answer, increasingly the result is poverty and violence.In Africa: The Politics of Suffering and Smiling Patrick Chabal approaches this question differently by ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Negotiating Statehood

    Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa

    Edited by Tobias Hagmann, Didier Péclard ...
    Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa provides a conceptual framework for analysing dynamic processes of state-making in Africa.Features a conceptual framework which provides a method for analysing the everyday making, contestation, and negotiation of statehood in contemporary AfricaConceptualizes who negotiates statehood (the actors, resources and repertoires), where ... Read more

    $37.50 USD

  • This Won't Hurt

    How Medicine Fails Women

    by Marieke Bigg ...
    'A hugely informative and quietly furious call to arms.' IRISH TIMES'A ground-breaking new book.' EVENING STANDARD'A must read.' DAILY EXPRESS'She is balanced in her evidence analysis, forensic in her research.' TELEGRAPH**'**A vital subject that needs to be discussed -KATY HESSEL, AUTHOR OF THE STORY OF ART WITHOUT MEN</s... ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • Medicine as Culture

    Illness, Disease and the Body

    by Deborah Lupton ...
    Lupton′s newest edition of Medicine as Culture is more relevant than ever.Trudy Rudge, Professor of Nursing, University of SydneyA welcome update of a text that has become a mainstay of the medical sociologist′s library.Alan Radley, Emeritus Professor of Social Psychology, Loughborough UniversityMedicine as Culture introduces students to a broad range of cross-disciplinary theoretical perspectives ... Read more

    $67.49 USD