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“robert meunier”

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  • Biomedical Visions

    Epistemology, Medicine and Art Practice

    by Virginia Marano, Charlotte Matter, Laura Valterio, Jacob van der Beugel, Lara Keuck, Jaipreet Virdi, Nimisha Bhanot, Paula Muhr, Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez, Stephen A. Geller, Gideon Manning, Flora Lysen, Marlene Bart, Cornelius Borck, Robert Meunier, Adam Christianson, Ariane Hanemaayer, Jan M. Friedman, Alison Elliott, Awa Naghipour, Joana Atemengue Owona, Golnar Kat Rahmani, Cat Dawson ...
    We live in an age of biomedical visions. There seems to be no end to the demystification of the body through visualization technologies and the promise of health is irresistible. Yet alongside these promising technologies, inequalities in healthcare persist. Life and illness play out in the gap between visualized bodies and ideological notions of health and disease. This publication brings ... Read more

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  • 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

  • Trans Medicine

    The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

    by stef m. shuster ...
    **Finalist, PROSE Award in Clinical Medicine**A rich examination of the history of trans medicine and current day practiceSurfacing in the mid-twentieth century, yet shrouded in social stigma, transgender medicine is now a rapidly growing medical field. In Trans Medicine, stef shuster makes an important intervention in how we understand the development of this field and how it is being used to ... Read more

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  • A History of Rhetoric, Sound, and Health and Healing

    by Kristin Marie Bivens ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
    A History of Rhetoric, Sound, and Health and Healing argues for medico-sonic knowledge — systematically interpreted bodily sounds with medical knowledge mediated by rhetoric — as an evolving corporeal practice with an incomparable, sprawling history.Taking a materialist-feminist perspective, the book rhetorically accounts for sound and suggests rhetoric enables bodily sounds as understandable, ... Read more

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  • Stem Cell Transplantations Between Siblings as Social Phenomena

    The Child’s Body and Family Decision-making

    Edited by Christina Schües, Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, Martina Jürgensen, Madeleine Herzog ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This open access book offers insights in short- and long-term experiences from families with bone marrow transplantations between minor siblings. It is based on the first extended qualitative study with 17 families about experiences with recent transplants and experiences with transplants up to 20 years in the past. It covers reflections of donors, recipients and other family members, as well as ... Read more

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  • Doctoring

    The Nature of Primary Care Medicine

    by Eric J. Cassell, M.D. ...
    American medicine attracts some of the brightest and most motivated people the country has to offer, and it boasts the most advanced medical technology in the world, a wondrous parade of machines and techniques such as PET scans, MRI, angioplasty, endoscopy, bypasses, organ transplants, and much more besides. And yet, writes Dr. Eric Cassell, what started out early in the century as the exciting ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Health Problems

    Philosophical Puzzles about the Nature of Health

    by Elizabeth Barnes ...
    Health is weird. Health is weird in a way that resists simple explanations or elegant theorizing. This book is a philosophical explanation of that weirdness, and an argument that grappling with the distinctive weirdness of health can give us insight into how we might approach difficult questions about social reality. After examining extant theories of health - and finding them lacking - the book ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The End of Normal

    Identity in a Biocultural Era

    by Lennard Davis ...
    In an era when human lives are increasingly measured and weighed in relation to the medical and scientific, notions of what is “normal” have changed drastically. While it is no longer useful to think of a person’s particular race, gender, sexual orientation, or choice as “normal,” the concept continues to haunt us in other ways. In The End of Normal, Lennard J. Davis explores changing perceptions ... Read more

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  • Homo Novus - A Human Without Illusions

    Edited by Charlotte Störmer, Kai P. Willführ, Ulrich J. Frey ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Converging evidence from disciplines including sociobiology, evolutionary psychology and human biology forces us to adopt a new idea of what it means to be a human. As cherished concepts such as free will, naïve realism, humans as creation's crowning glory fall and our moral roots in ape group dynamics become clearer, we have to take leave of many concepts that have been central to defining our ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication

    Edited by Wen-ying Sylvia Chou, Heidi E. Hamilton ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics
    The Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication consists of forty chapters that provide a broad, comprehensive, and systematic overview of the role that linguistics plays within health communication research and its applications.The Handbook is divided into three sections:Individuals’ everyday health communicationHealth professionals’ communicative practicesPatient-provider ... Read more

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  • 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

    $66.99 USD

  • Narrative Medicine

    Bridging the Gap between Evidence-Based Care and Medical Humanities

    by Maria Giulia Marini ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book examines all aspects of narrative medicine and its value in ensuring that, in an age of evidence-based medicine defined by clinical trials, numbers, and probabilities, clinical science is firmly embedded in the medical humanities in order to foster the understanding of clinical cases and the delivery of excellent patient care. The medical humanities address what happens to us when we are ... Read more

    $49.49 USD