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  • A Cultural Biography of the Prostate

    by Ericka Johnson ...
    What contemporary prostate angst tells us about how we understand masculinity, aging, and sexuality.We are all suffering an acute case of prostate angst. Men worry about their own prostates and those of others close to them; women worry about the prostates of the men they love. The prostate--a gland located directly under the bladder--lurks on the periphery of many men's health issues, but as an ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • How That Robot Made Me Feel

    Edited by Ericka Johnson ...
    An edited collection that explores what emotions we have when encountering robots, how we react emotionally to them in different contexts, and why these emotional responses are so important.Do robots, or the AI that is driving them, have emotions? That is a hotly debated topic—both in science fiction, where such assertions are a staple of the narrative, and in tech development, where it often ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Dreaming of a Mail-Order Husband

    Russian-American Internet Romance

    by Ericka Johnson ...
    In the American media, Russian mail-order brides are often portrayed either as docile victims or as gold diggers in search of money and green cards. Rarely are they allowed to speak for themselves. Until now. In Dreaming of a Mail-Order Husband, six Russian women who are in search of or have already found U.S. husbands via listings on the Internet tell their stories. Ericka Johnson, an American ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • 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

    $73.99 USD

  • Refracting through Technologies

    Bodies, Medical Technologies and Norms

    by Ericka Johnson ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Gender and Society
    This book explores the ‘material-discursive entanglement’ of how we both make the world with our words and how the materiality of the world forces us to put words on it. Beginning with the conundrum of how the things that make up our world are both shaped by and shape the ways in which we talk about, engage with and think about them, the author accepts the entanglement and then works backwards, ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Gendering Drugs

    Feminist Studies of Pharmaceuticals

    Edited by Ericka Johnson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book, by bringing together critical pharmaceutical studies and feminist technoscience studies, explores the way drugs produce sexed and/or gendered identities for those who take – or resist – them, and how feminist technoscience studies can contribute a theoretical lens with which to observe sex and gender in the pharmaceuticalization processes. Topics explored in this diverse collection ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Glocal Pharma

    International Brands and the Imagination of Local Masculinity

    by Ericka Johnson, Ebba Sjögren, Cecilia Åsberg ...
    Series series Global Connections
    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.An exploration of how global pharmaceutical products are localized - of what happens when they become ‘glocal’ - this book examines the tensions that exist between a global pharmaceutical market and the locally bounded ... Read more

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