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  • Chemically Imbalanced

    Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery

    by Joseph E. Davis ...
    A study of how ordinary people deal with everyday problems through self-mastery and mental health care practices.Everyday suffering—those conditions or feelings brought on by trying circumstances that arise in everyone's lives—is something that humans have grappled with for millennia. But the last decades have seen a drastic change in the way we approach it. In the past, a person going through a ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Evening of Life

    The Challenges of Aging and Dying Well

    Edited by Joseph E. Davis, Paul Scherz ...
    Although philosophy, religion, and civic cultures used to help people prepare for aging and dying well, this is no longer the case. Today, aging is frequently seen as a problem to be solved and death as a harsh reality to be masked. In part, our cultural confusion is rooted in an inadequate conception of the human person, which is based on a notion of absolute individual autonomy that cannot but ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Identity and Social Change

    by Joseph E. Davis ...
    Identity and Social Change examines the thorny problem of modern identity. Trenchant critiques have come from identity politics, focusing on the construction of difference and the solidarity of minorities, and from academic deconstructions of modern subjectivity. This volume places identity in a broader sociological context of destabilizing and reintegrating forces.The contributors first explore ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • To Fix or To Heal

    Patient Care, Public Health, and the Limits of Biomedicine

    Edited by Joseph E. Davis, Ana Marta Gonzalez ...
    Series Book 3 - Biopolitics
    Do doctors fix patients? Or do they heal them? For all of modern medicine’s many successes, discontent with the quality of patient care has combined with a host of new developments, from aging populations to the resurgence of infectious diseases, which challenge medicine’s overreliance on narrowly mechanistic and technical methods of explanation and intervention, or “fixing’ patients. The need for ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

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  • The Question of Competence

    Reconsidering Medical Education in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Brian D. Hodges, Lorelei Lingard ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    Medical competence is a hot topic surrounded by much controversy about how to define competency, how to teach it, and how to measure it. While some debate the pros and cons of competence-based medical education and others explain how to achieve various competencies, the authors of the seven chapters in The Question of Competence offer something very different. They critique the very notion of ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Sociological Imagination

    by C. Wright Mills ...
    C. Wright Mills is best remembered for his highly acclaimed work The Sociological Imagination, in which he set forth his views on how social science should be pursued. Hailed upon publication as a cogent and hard-hitting critique, The Sociological Imagination took issue with the ascendant schools of sociology in the United States, calling for a humanist sociology connecting the social, personal, ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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  • The Posthuman

    by Rosi Braidotti ...
    The Posthuman offers both an introduction and major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman. Digital 'second life', genetically modified food, advanced prosthetics, robotics and reproductive technologies are familiar facets of our globally linked and technologically mediated societies. This has blurred the traditional distinction between the human and its others, exposing the non ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • House of Cards

    by Robyn Dawes ...
    Robin Dawes spares no one in this powerful critique of modern psychotherapeutic practice. As Dawes points out, we have all been swayed by the "pop psych" view of the world--believing, for example, that self-esteem is an essential precursor to being a productive human being, that events in one's childhood affect one's fate as an adult, and that "you have to love yourself before you can love another ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Pedagogy of Freedom

    Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

    by Paulo Freire ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives Series: A Book Series Dedicated to Paulo Freire
    In Pedagogy of Freedom Paulo Freire travels ever more deeply into the territory where learning and activism are the essence of human life. This profound new book shows why an engaged way of learning and teaching is central to the creation of the individual, culture, and history.Freire finds in today's emerging global society a new context in which education cannot be indifferent to the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The Consequences of Modernity

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with modernity. We do not as yet, he argues, live in a post-modern world. Rather the distinctive characteristics of our major social institutions in the closing period of the twentieth century express the emergence of a period of 'high modernity,' in which ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

  • Justice and the Politics of Difference

    by Iris Marion Young ...
    In this classic work of feminist political thought, Iris Marion Young challenges the prevailing reduction of social justice to distributive justice. It critically analyzes basic concepts underlying most theories of justice, including impartiality, formal equality, and the unitary moral subjectivity. The starting point for her critique is the experience and concerns of the new social movements ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Recovery of People with Mental Illness

    Philosophical and Related Perspectives

    Edited by Abraham Rudnick ...
    Series series International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry
    It is only in the past 20 years that the concept of 'recovery' from mental health has been more widely considered and researched. Before then, it was generally considered that 'stability' was the best that anyone suffering from a mental disorder could hope for. But now it is recognised that, throughout their mental illness, many patients develop new beliefs, feelings, values, attitudes, and ways ... Read more

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