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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “christa teston”
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  • Doing Dignity

    Ethical Praxis and the Politics of Care

    by Christa Teston ...
    Series series Health Communication
    Explores human dignity and care in the face of disease and disability.Complex contemporary experiences with disease, death, and disability in the United States have made the concept of human dignity seem outdated. In Doing Dignity: Ethical Praxis and the Politics of Care, Christa Teston challenges conventional notions of dignity and, based on analyses of clinical observations, interviews, and ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things

    by Marilyn M. Cooper, John Muckelbauer, Christa Teston, Katie Zabrowski, Donnie Johnson Sackey, Cydney Alexis, Kevin Rutherford0, Jason Palmeri1, S. Scott Graham2, Kristie S. Fleckenstein3, Brian J. McNely4, Laurie Ellen Gries5, Kim Lacey6, Jodie Nicotra7, Sarah Overbaugh Hallenbeck8, Nathaniel A. Rivers9, Thomas Rickert0, William Hart-Davidson1, James J. Brown Jr.2 ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    A fascinating addition to rhetoric scholarship, Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things expands the scope of rhetorical situations beyond the familiar humanist triad of speaker-audience-purpose to an inclusive study of inanimate objects.The fifteen essays in Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things persuasively overturn the stubborn assumption that objects are passive tools in the hands of objective human ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Bodies in Flux

    Scientific Methods for Negotiating Medical Uncertainty

    by Christa Teston ...
    Doctors, scientists, and patients have long grappled with the dubious nature of “certainty” in medical practice. To help navigate the chaos caused by ongoing bodily change we rely on scientific reductions and deductions. We take what we know now and make best guesses about what will be. But bodies in flux always outpace the human gaze. Particularly in cancer care, processes deep within our bodies ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Precarious Rhetorics

    Edited by Wendy S. Hesford, Adela C. Licona, Christa Teston ...
    Series series New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality
    Across disciplines, scholars have employed theories of precarity to help explain the pervasiveness of problems related to labor, migration, biopolitics, global and state governance, economies of war and violence, poverty, environmental degradation, and a host of other pressing issues. Precarous Rhetorics is the first work to bring precarity studies to the field of rhetoric and communication—and to ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • Selfless

    The Social Creation of “You”

    by Brian Lowery ...
    A Best Book of 2023 by Inc.Social psychologist and Stanford professor Brian Lowery presents a provocative, powerful theory of identity, arguing that there is no essential "self"—our selves are social creations of those with whom we interact —exploring what that means for who we can be and who we allow others to be.There’s nothing we spend more time with, but understand less, than ourselves. You’ve ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Side Affects

    On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

    by Hil Malatino ...
    How the “bad feelings” of trans experience inform trans survival and flourishingSome days—or weeks, or months, or even years—being trans feels bad. Yet as Hil Malatino points out, there is little space for trans people to think through, let alone speak of, these bad feelings. Negative emotions are suspect because they unsettle narratives of acceptance or reinforce virulently phobic framings of ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

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  • Trans Care

    by Hil Malatino ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    A radical and necessary rethinking of trans careWhat does it mean for trans people to show up for one another, to care deeply for one another? How have failures of care shaped trans lives? What care practices have trans subjects and communities cultivated in the wake of widespread transphobia and systemic forms of trans exclusion?Trans Care is a critical intervention in how care labor and care ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Open Your Eyes

    Deaf Studies Talking

    Edited by H-Dirksen L. Bauman ...
    This groundbreaking volume introduces readers to the key concepts and debates in deaf studies, offering perspectives on the relevance and richness of deaf ways of being in the world. In Open Your Eyes, leading and emerging scholars, the majority of whom are deaf, consider physical and cultural boundaries of deaf places and probe the complex intersections of deaf identities with gender, sexuality, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Reflexivity and Qualitative Research

    by Jane Gilgun ...
    Researchers' own experiences affect every aspect of the research they do, from conceptualization of the issues to be researched, relationships with research participants, to interpretation of findings, to writing up results, to dissemination. This article discusses reflexivity and provides examples of what it is.Reflexivity is important topic for qualitative researchers to consider and to ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pleasure Consuming Medicine

    The Queer Politics of Drugs

    by Kane Race ...
    On a summer night in 2007, the Azure Party, part of Sydney’s annual gay and lesbian Mardi Gras, is underway. Alongside the party outfits, drugs, lights, and DJs is a volunteer care team trained to deal with the drug-related emergencies that occasionally occur. But when police appear at the gates with drug-detecting dogs, mild panic ensues. Some patrons down all their drugs, heightening their risk ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Identity Papers

    Literacy and Power in Higher Education

    Edited by Bronwyn T Williams ...
    How do definitions of literacy in the academy, and the pedagogies that reinforce such definitions, influence and shape our identities as teachers, scholars, and students? The contributors gathered here reflect on those moments when the dominant cultural and institutional definitions of our identities conflict with our other identities, shaped by class, race, gender, sexual orientation, location, ... Read more

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  • Erving Goffman and Modern Sociology

    by Philip Manning ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    The work of Erving Goffman has had an enormous impact throughout the social sciences. Yet his writings have not received the detailed scrutiny which they deserve.This new book is the first comprehensive and accessible account of Erving Goffman's contributions, ranging in its scope from his very earliest work right up to the projects upon which he was engaged at the time of his death. Goffman's ... Read more

    $20.00 USD