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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

  • Living Worth

    Value and Values in Global Pharmaceutical Markets

    by Stefan Ecks ...
    Series series Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
    In Living Worth Stefan Ecks draws on ethnographic research on depression and antidepressant usage in India to develop a new theory of value. Framing depressive disorder as a problem of value, Ecks traces the myriad ways antidepressants come to have value, from their ability to help make one’s life worth living to the wealth they generate in the multibillion-dollar global pharmaceutical market. ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Eating Drugs

    Psychopharmaceutical Pluralism in India

    by Stefan Ecks ...
    Series Book 20 - Biopolitics
    A Hindu monk in Calcutta refuses to take his psychotropic medications. His psychiatrist explains that just as his body needs food, the drugs are nutrition for his starved mind. Does it matter how—or whether—patients understand their prescribed drugs?Millions of people in India are routinely prescribed mood medications. Pharmaceutical companies give doctors strong incentives to write as many ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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    Edited by Mara Buchbinder, Michele Rivkin-Fish, Rebecca L. Walker ...
    Series series Studies in Social Medicine
    The need for informed analyses of health policy is now greater than ever. The twelve essays in this volume show that public debates routinely bypass complex ethical, sociocultural, historical, and political questions about how we should address ideals of justice and equality in health care. Integrating perspectives from the humanities, social sciences, medicine, and public health, this volume ... Read more

    $18.99 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

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  • Troubling Natural Categories

    Engaging the Medical Anthropology of Margaret Lock

    by Naomi Adelson, Leslie Butt, Karina Kielmann ...
    Where do our conventional understandings of health, illness, and the body stem from? What makes them authoritative? How are the boundaries set around these areas of life unsettled in the changing historical and political contexts of science, technology, and health care delivery? These questions are at the heart of Troubling Natural Categories, a collection of essays honouring the tradition of ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Spontaneous Happiness

    by Andrew Weil, MD ...
    Bestselling author Dr. Andrew Weil presents his revolutionary approach to peak emotional wellness and finding lasting happiness.Everyone wants to be happy. But what does that really mean? Increasingly, scientific evidence shows us that true satisfaction and well-being come only from within.Dr. Andrew Weil has proven that the best way to maintain optimum physical health is to draw on both ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Gender

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Laura Erickson-Schroth, Benjamin Davis ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs to Know
    The term "gender" was first distinguished from "sex" in the 1950s when psychologists began to discuss the idea of "gender roles," behaviors and responsibilities given to people by a society rather than flowing from their biology. Since then, leaders across disciplines have sought to better understand the roles of biology, psychology, and culture on gender. New language has emerged alongside rich ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Public Health

    Edited by Sridhar Venkatapuram, Alex Broadbent ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Applied Ethics
    In comparison to medicine, the professional field of public health is far less familiar. What is public health, and perhaps as importantly, what should public health be or become? How do causal concepts shape the public health agenda? How do study designs either promote or demote the environmental causal factors or health inequalities? How is risk understood, expressed, and communicated? Who is ... Read more

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  • Happiness

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    There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. We all want more money, but as societies become richer, they do not become happier. This is not speculation: It's the story told by countless pieces of scientific research. We now have sophisticated ways of measuring how happy people are, and all the evidence shows that on average people have grown no happier in the last fifty years, even as average ... Read more

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  • The Relaxation Response

    by Herbert Benson, M.D., Miriam Z. Klipper ...
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  • A Companion to Bioethics

    Edited by Helga Kuhse, Peter Singer ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
    This second edition of A Companion to Bioethics, fully revised and updated to reflect the current issues and developments in the field, covers all the material that the reader needs to thoroughly grasp the ideas and debates involved in bioethics.Thematically organized around an unparalleled range of issues, including discussion of the moral status of embryos and fetuses, new genetics, life and ... Read more

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