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  • Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century

    by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, Junko Kitanaka, Eugene Raikhel, Mara Buchbinder, Jocelyn Lim Chua, Stefan Ecks, Denielle Elliott, Michele Friedner0, Duana Fullwiley1, Paul Wenzel Geissler2, T.S. Harvey3, Gideon Lasco4, Peter Mangesho5, Caroline Meier zu Biesen6, Todd Meyers7, Vera Ngowi8, Michelle Pentecost9, Ruth Prince0, Christine Sargent1, Harris Solomon2, Lulu Tessua3, Anitha Tingira4, Ayo Wahlberg5, Emily Yates-Doerr6 ...
    Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century provides readers with a comprehensive survey of topics, methodologies, and theories in the discipline, drawing on contributions from leading anthropologists around the world. As a discipline, medical anthropology provides situational analysis of health, disease, and disability to show how the experiences of medical experts, patients, and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Sensory Futures

    Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India

    by Michele Ilana Friedner ...
    Revealing inequalities and sensory hierarchies embedded in the latest medical technologies and global biotechnical marketsWhat happens when cochlear implants, heralded as the first successful bionic technologies, make their way around the globe and are provided by both states and growing private markets? As Sensory Futures follows these implants from development to domestication and their unequal ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Inaccessible Access

    Rethinking Disability Inclusion in Academic Knowledge Creation

    by Mark T. Carew, Michele Friedner, Carol Rivas, Julia F. Sauma, Julia K. Modern, Valéria Aydos0, Harshadha Balasubramanian1, Rebekah Cupitt2, Sara M. Acevedo3, Sumi Colligan4, Valerie Black5, Nell A. Koneczny6, Erin L. Durban7, Krisjon Olson8, Mark R. Bookman9 ...
    Inaccessible Access ethnographically addresses barriers to inclusion within knowledge-making. It focuses on the social, environmental, communicative, and epistemological barriers that people with disabilities confront and embody throughout the course of their learning and living and in the specific context of their higher education institutions and in research. It is presented by a neurodiverse, ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India

    by Michele Ilana Friedner ...
    Although it is commonly believed that deafness and disability limits a person in a variety of ways, Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India describes the two as a source of value in postcolonial India. Michele Friedner argues that the experiences of deaf people offer an important portrayal of contemporary self-making and sociality under new regimes of labor and economy in India.Friedner contends that ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Sounding the Limits of Life

    Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond

    by Stefan Helmreich, Sophia Roosth, Michele Friedner ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
    What is life? What is water? What is sound? In Sounding the Limits of Life, anthropologist Stefan Helmreich investigates how contemporary scientists—biologists, oceanographers, and audio engineers—are redefining these crucial concepts. Life, water, and sound are phenomena at once empirical and abstract, material and formal, scientific and social. In the age of synthetic biology, rising sea levels, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Professional Responsibility and Relationality in Deaf Education

    Edited by Michele Friedner, Rachel O'Neill, Kristin Snoddon ...
    This book provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the concepts and practices of professionalism, responsibility, and relationality in the context of deaf education.Internationally, public attention has been drawn to professional and ethical ruptures and crises in early intervention and education for deaf children. These ruptures and crises both demonstrate a failure in organizations’ duty of ... Read more

    $200.00 USD

  • It's a Small World

    International Deaf Spaces and Encounters

    Edited by Michele Friedner, Annelies Kusters ...
    It’s a Small World explores the fascinating and, at times, controversial concept of DEAF-SAME (“I am deaf, you are deaf, and so we are the same”) and its influence on deaf spaces locally and globally. The editors and contributors focus on national and international encounters (e.g., conferences, sporting events, arts festivals, camps) and the role of political/economic power structures on deaf ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

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  • Crip Authorship

    Disability as Method

    Edited by Mara Mills, Rebecca Sanchez ...
    2024 Daniel E. Griffiths Research Award Winner2024 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice ReviewsAn expansive volume presenting crip approaches to writing, research, and publishing.Crip Authorship: Disability as Method is an expansive volume presenting the multidisciplinary methods brought into being by disability studies and activism. Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez have convened lead... ... Read more

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  • The BERA-Sage Handbook of Research-Informed Education Practice and Policy

    Edited by Dominic Wyse, Vivienne Marie Baumfield, Nicole Mockler, R. Martin Reardon ...
    One of the most pressing topics worldwide is how we can improve education to enhance people’s life chances. The BERA-Sage Handbook of Research-Informed Education Practice and Policy, 2 Vol. offers an in-depth exploration of the ways in which education research intersects with and can lead to improvements in education. Through detailed examinations of educational policies, practices, values, and ... Read more

    $221.39 USD

  • Madness, Distress and the Politics of Disablement

    Edited by Helen Spandler, Jill Anderson, Bob Sapey ...
    This book explores the challenges of applying disability theory and policy, including the social model of disability, to madness and distress. It brings together leading scholars and activists from Europe, North America, Australia and India, to explore the relationship between madness, distress and disability.Whether mental health problems should be viewed as disabilities is a pressing concern, ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Thirty Million Words

    Building a Child's Brain

    by Dana Suskind MD ...
    The founder and director of the Thirty Million Words Initiative, Professor Dana Suskind, explains why the most important—and astoundingly simple—thing you can do for your child’s future success in life is to to talk to them.What nurtures the brain to optimum intelligence and stability?It is a secret hiding in plain sight: the most important thing we can do for our children is to have conversations ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Experience Research Social Change

    Critical Methods, Third Edition

    by Colleen Reid, Lorraine Greaves, Sandra Kirby ...
    Experience Research Social Change is a “how to” guide to research that also raises broader theoretical, methodological, and ethical questions. First published in 1989, it was the first critical methods book, and continues to inspire generations of researchers, students, and community workers.The third edition has been thoroughly revised, now containing twelve chapters organized into three parts: ... Read more

    $43.99 USD