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  • Physicians of Western Medicine

    Anthropological Approaches to Theory and Practice

    Edited by Robert A. Hahn, Atwood D. Gaines ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    After putting down this weighty (in all senses of the word) collection, the reader, be she or he physician or social scientist, will (or at least should) feel uncomfortable about her or his taken-for-granted commonsense (therefore cultural) understanding of medicine. The editors and their collaborators show the medical leviathan, warts and all, for what it is: changing, pluralistic, problematic, ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

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  • Rethinking Psychiatry

    by Arthur Kleinman ...
    In this book, Kleinman proposes an international view of mental illness and mental care.Arthur Kleinman, M.D., examines how the prevalence and nature of disorders vary in different cultures, how clinicians make their diagnoses, and how they heal, and the educational and practical implications of a true understanding of the interplay between biology and culture. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • How Doctors Think

    Clinical Judgment and the Practice of Medicine

    by Kathryn Montgomery ...
    How Doctors Think defines the nature and importance of clinical judgment. Although physicians make use of science, this book argues that medicine is not itself a science but rather an interpretive practice that relies on clinical reasoning. A physician looks at the patient's history along with the presenting physical signs and symptoms and juxtaposes these with clinical experience and empirical ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Gut Feminism

    by Elizabeth A. Wilson ...
    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    In Gut Feminism Elizabeth A. Wilson urges feminists to rethink their resistance to biological and pharmaceutical data. Turning her attention to the gut and depression, she asks what conceptual and methodological innovations become possible when feminist theory isn’t so instinctively antibiological. She examines research on anti-depressants, placebos, transference, phantasy, eating disorders and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Handbook for Synthesizing Qualitative Research

    by Julie Barroso, PhD, ANP, APRN, Margarete J. Sandelowski ...
    Designated a Doody's Core Title!Written for graduate-level students and faculty in health care science disciplines, this handbook will help you integrate the findings in reports of primary qualitative studies as well as extrapolate the methods and techniques used to create a qualitative research synthesis.Using reports of studies in two domains of research and across behavior, social science, and ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Pain and Suffering

    by Ronald Schleifer ...
    Series series The Routledge Series Integrating Science and Culture
    Pain is felt by everyone, yet understanding its nature is fragmented across myriad modes of thought. In this compact, yet thoroughly integrative account uniting medical science, psychology, and the humanities Ronald Schleifer offers a deep and complex understanding along with possible strategies of dealing with pain in its most overwhelming forms. A perfect addition to many courses in medicine, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Medicine

    by Fred Gifford, John Woods, Dov M. Gabbay, Paul Thagard ...
    Series Book 16 - Handbook of the Philosophy of Science
    This volume covers a wide range of conceptual, epistemological and methodological issues in the philosophy of science raised by reflection upon medical science and practice. Several chapters examine such general meta-scientific concepts as discovery, reduction, theories and models, causal inference and scientific realism as they apply to medicine or medical science in particular. Some discuss ... Read more

    $189.99 USD

  • The Philosophical Defence of Psychiatry

    by Lawrie Reznek ...
    Series series Philosophical Issues in Science
    By first analysing the arguments of psychiatry's critics and the philosophical ideas of such thinkers as Freud, Eysenck, Laing, Szasz, Sedgwick and Foucault and by then providing answers to the many contentious and diverse questions raised, Dr. Reznek aims to establish a philosophical defence of the theory and practice of psychiatry. As both a qualified philosopher and psychiatrist, the author is ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Ethics of Gender-Specific Disease

    by Mary Ann Cutter ...
    Series series Routledge Annals of Bioethics
    Our understanding of gender carries significant bioethical implications. An errant account of gender-specific disease can lead to overgeneralizations, undergeneralizations, and misdiagnoses. It can also lead to problems in the structure of health-care delivery, the creation of policy, and the development of clinical curricula.In this volume, Cutter argues that gender-specific disease and related ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Medicine

    Edited by Miriam Solomon, Jeremy R. Simon, Harold Kincaid ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Medicine is a comprehensive guide to topics in the fields of epistemology and metaphysics of medicine. It examines traditional topics such as the concept of disease, causality in medicine, the epistemology of the randomized controlled trial, the biopsychosocial model, explanation, clinical judgment and phenomenology of medicine and emerging topics, such as ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Reading the Psychosomatic in Medical and Popular Culture

    Something. Nothing. Everything

    Edited by Carol-Ann Farkas ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities
    Pain. Chronic digestive symptoms. Poor sleep. Neuropathy. Sensory disturbances. Fatigue. Panic. Constant illness and discomfort. Frequent difficulty coping with work, school, relationships.Despite the common experience of being told that it’s all in their heads, that they’re just making themselves sick, individuals with these symptoms are experiencing a very real, sometimes debilitating, illness ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Women and Health Psychology

    Volume I: Mental Health Issues

    by Cheryl Brown Travis ...
    Series series Environment and Health Series
    The author proposes that the conditions, events, and experiences that contribute to serious mental health problems for a percentage of women, will at some point be experienced by all. Mental Health Issues presents two basic themes: that social contexts and frameworks are experienced and expressed, and then subconsciously internalized as part of the self; and that specific diagnostic conditions, ... Read more

    $36.99 USD