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  • Cancer Entangled

    Anticipation, Acceleration, and the Danish State

    by Rikke Sand Andersen, Marie Louise Tørring, Stine Hauberg Nielsen, Michal Frumer, Sara Marie Hebsgaard Offersen, Camilla Hoffmann Merrild, Rikke Aarhus, Benedikte Møller Kristensen, Professor Lenore Manderson0 ...
    Cancer Entangled explores the shifts that took place in Denmark around the millennium, when health promoters set out to minimize delays in cancer diagnoses in hope of improving cancer survival. The authors suggest a temporal reframing of cancer control that emphasizes the importance of focusing on how people – potential patients as well as health care professionals – experience and anticipate ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Australian Ways

    Anthropological studies in an industrialised society

    Edited by Lenore Manderson ...
    This collection, the first of its kind in Australia, illustrates the richness of data and analysis born of the anthropological study of contemporary white Australian society.The studies presented here deal with diverse settings and events, ranging from a community's responses to a bushfire in rural NSW to the messages encoded in a male strip show in Adelaide. Work and leisure, family life and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Coming of Age in South and Southeast Asia

    Youth, Courtship and Sexuality

    by Lenore Manderson, Pranee Liamputtong Rice ...
    In recent years, first feminist considerations, and now concerns with HIV/Aids have led to new approaches to the study of sexuality. The experience of puberty, explorations with sexuality and courtship, and the pressure to reproduce are a few of the human tensions central to this volume. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Manner Born

    Birth Rites in Cross-Cultural Perspective

    by Niles Newton, Michael Newton, Wenda R. Trevathan, James J. McKenna, Sheila Cosminsky (Rutgers University, Brian Bates, Allison Newman Turner, Elaine Jones & Margarita A. Kay, Thomas R. Forbes, Lenore Manderson, Arthur Niehoff, Natalie Meister, Cecil Slome, Ruth Benedict, Daniel G. Freedman ...
    This essential collection on maternal and child health focuses on the rites of giving birth from a cross-cultural perspective. The distinguished list of contributors describe the many customs surrounding birth through infancy, highlighting a wide range of variation in practices across cultures. They discuss attitudes and techniques in childbirth, the interaction between human evolutionary form and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Surface Tensions

    Surgery, Bodily Boundaries, and the Social Self

    by Lenore Manderson ...
    Surface Tensions is an expansive, yet intimate study of how people remake themselves after catastrophic bodily change—the loss of limbs, the loss of function, the loss or replacement of organs. Against a sweeping cultural backdrop of art, popular culture, and the history of science and medicine, Manderson uses narrative epistemology based on in-depth interviews with over 300 individuals to show ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology

    Edited by Lenore Manderson, Elizabeth Cartwright, Anita Hardon ...
    Series series Routledge Anthropology Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology provides a contemporary overview of the key themes in medical anthropology. In this exciting departure from conventional handbooks, compendia and encyclopedias, the three editors have written the core chapters of the volume, and in so doing, invite the reader to reflect on the ethnographic richness and theoretical contributions of research on the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Reframing Disability and Quality of Life

    A Global Perspective

    Edited by Narelle Warren, Lenore Manderson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume brings together two parallel fields of interest. One is the understanding among psychologists and other social scientists of the limits to psychometric measurement, and the challenges in generating information about quality of life and wellbeing that enable comparison across time and place, at both individual and population levels. The second is the interest among anthropologists and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Flows of Faith

    Religious Reach and Community in Asia and the Pacific

    Edited by Lenore Manderson, Wendy Smith, Matt Tomlinson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Unique local transformations of the practice of established religions in Asia and the Pacific are juxtaposed with the emergence of new religious movements whose incidence is growing across the region. In Flows of Faith, the contributing authors take as their starting point questions of how religions manifest outside their cultural boundaries and provide the basis for new social identities, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Disclosure in Health and Illness

    Edited by Mark Davis, Lenore Manderson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
    Disclosure is a frequently used but rarely interrogated concept in health and social welfare. Abuse, disability, sexuality and health status can be ‘disclosed’ to peers and professionals, and on some occasions, disclosure is a requirement and not a choice. This innovative collection examines the new social and political implications of disclosure practices in health and illness.We make our ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Violence Against Women in Asian Societies

    Gender Inequality and Technologies of Violence

    Edited by Linda Rae Bennett, Lenore Manderson ...
    Series series ASAA Women in Asia Series
    Violence against women is a violation of women's human rights and a priority public health issue. It is endemic worldwide. While much has been written about it in industrialized societies, there has been relatively little attention given to such violence in Asian societies. This book addresses the structural and interpersonal violences to which women are subject, both under conditions of conflict ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Technologies of Sexuality, Identity and Sexual Health

    Edited by Lenore Manderson ...
    Series series Sexuality, Culture and Health
    Technologies of Sexuality, Identity and Sexual Health highlights the complex ways in which sexuality is expressed and enacted through local ideologies, global identities and material cultures, and their influence on people’s sexual health and well-being. Its impetus is the renewed interest in technology and the ‘social life of things,’ including pharmaceuticals, expanded sexual and related surgery ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Reproductive Boundaries

    Psychosocial Care and Pregnancy in Switzerland

    by Edmée Ballif ...
    Series series Medical Anthropology
    Reproductive Boundaries examines the shifting boundaries of prenatal care in Switzerland, focusing on the Pregnancy Support Center's innovative psychosocial model. By redefining the territory of care, the Center extends its reach beyond the medical domain, exemplifying the reproductivization of life, the increasing organization of various life aspects through a reproductive lens. The book explores ... Read more

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