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  • More-than-Human Aging

    Animals, Robots, and Care in Later Life

    by Cristina Douglas, Cristina Douglas, Andrew Whitehouse, Andrew Whitehouse, Susan McHugh, Vanessa Ashall, Katie Brittain, Ardra Cole, Cathrine Degnen, Carrie Friese0, Ruud Hendriks1, Larissa Hjorth2, Samantha Hurn3, Ike Kamphof4, Joanna Elizabeth Latimer5, Daniel López Gómez6, Susan MacLeod7, Ingrid Richardson8, Nete Schwennesen9, Lesley Sharp0 ...
    Series series Global Perspectives on Aging
    What does later life look like when it is lived in the companionship of other species? Similarly, how do other species age (or not) with humans, and what sort of (a)symmetries, if any, are brought to light around how we understand and think about aging? So far, aging has been investigated in the social sciences in purely human terms. This is the first collection of original work that considers ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • The Immortal Mind

    A Neurosurgeon's Case for the Existence of the Soul

    by Michael Egnor, Denyse O'Leary ...
    A neuroscientist and surgeon makes an argument for the existence of a spiritual human soul in this eye-opening book.Many scientists and doctors believe that there is no such thing as the soul. That there is no part of us that persists beyond death. We are not spiritual in any respect. We are made up of cells and tissue, and completely controlled by a material organ in our heads: the brain. In this ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Paradox of Hope

    Journeys through a Clinical Borderland

    by Cheryl Mattingly ...
    Grounded in intimate moments of family life in and out of hospitals, this book explores the hope that inspires us to try to create lives worth living, even when no cure is in sight. The Paradox of Hope focuses on a group of African American families in a multicultural urban environment, many of them poor and all of them with children who have been diagnosed with serious chronic medical conditions. ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Health Humanities

    by P. Crawford, B. Brown, C. Baker, V. Tischler ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This is the first manifesto for Health Humanities worldwide. It sets out the context for this emergent and innovative field which extends beyond Medical Humanities to advance the inclusion and impact of the arts and humanities in healthcare, health and well-being. ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Dissociation in Late Modern America

    A Defense Against Soul?

    by Laura K Kerr ...
    Dissociation typically describes a psychological defense that protects the psyche from emotionally overwhelming events. However, dissociation can also contribute to maintaining and restoring relationships after suffering traumatic stress and overwhelming social strain. Two aspects of late modern American society interfere with dissociation's contribution to social change: 1) the Enlightenment ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Digital Touch

    by Carey Jewitt, Sara Price ...
    Touch matters. It is fundamental to how we know ourselves and each other, and it is central to how we communicate. Digital touch is embedded in many technologies, from wearable devices and gaming hardware to tactile robots and future technologies. What would it be like if we could hug or touch digitally across distance? How might this shape our sense of connection? How might we establish trust or ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Rethinking Culture in Health Communication

    Social Interactions as Intercultural Encounters

    by Elaine Hsieh, Eric M. Kramer ...
    Rethinking Culture in Health CommunicationAn interdisciplinary overview of health communication using a cultural lens—uniquely focused on social interactions in health contextsPatients, health professionals, and policymakers embody cultural constructs that impact healthcare processes. Rethinking Culture in Health Communication explores the ways in which culture influences healthcare, introducing ... Read more

    $62.00 USD

  • Neuroscience and Media

    New Understandings and Representations

    Edited by Michael Grabowski ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    This volume explores how advances in the fields of evolutionary neuroscience and cognitive psychology are informing media studies with a better understanding of how humans perceive, think and experience emotion within mediated environments. The book highlights interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to the production and reception of cinema, television, the Internet and other forms of ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Embodying Gender and Age in Speculative Fiction

    A Biopsychosocial Approach

    by Derek Thiess ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    Following scholarship on gender in science fiction, this book explores the limits of considering age as a social construction, positing that an acknowledgement of aged bodies necessarily changes the way we read both age and science fiction. The volume employs contemporary clinical psychology, the biopsychosocial model, to demonstrate that age is an important and neglected topic relevant to the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Narrative and Stories in Health Care

    Illness, dying and bereavement

    Edited by Yasmin Gunaratnam, David Oliviere ...
    The use of narrative methods has a long history in palliative care, pioneered by Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of the modern hospice movement, Narrative and Stories in Health Care provides a vibrant, multidisciplinary examination of work with narrative and stories in contemporary health and social care, with a focus on the care of people who are ill and dying. It animates the academic literature ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

  • Fragile Kinships

    Child Welfare and Well-Being in Japan

    by Kathryn E. Goldfarb ...
    In Fragile Kinships**, Kathryn E. Goldfarb shows how child welfare systems do not always generate well-being.** This is true across the world, as it is in Japan. Policymakers, caregivers, and people with experience in state care endeavor to imagine—and implement—child welfare systems that are genuinely supportive. Yet despite these efforts, social welfare systems too often produce people who are ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Big Anxiety

    Taking Care of Mental Health in Times of Crisis

    Edited by Jill Bennett ...
    Series series Thinking in the World
    This book takes a creative approach in examining one of the biggest crises of our time: that of mental suffering, distress and anxiety. By bringing together essays and dialogues from thinkers and artists across a range of disciplines, it re-imagines approaches to crisis, support, and care. Amid growing recognition that mental health is not only the province of psychiatry and the health sector, but ... Read more

    $28.19 USD