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  • Normality, Abnormality, and Pathology in Merleau-Ponty

    Edited by Susan Bredlau, Talia Welsh ...
    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
    Drawing on Merleau-Ponty offers new insights into our understandings of health and illness, ability and disability, and the scientific and cultural practices that both enable and limit our capacity for diverse experiences.Maurice Merleau-Ponty's work draws our attention to how the body is always our way of having a world and never merely a thing in the world. Our conception of the body must take ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Food and Everyday Life

    by Stephanie Greene, Joanna Henryks, David Livert, Irina D. Mihalache, Marianne LeGreco, Klara Seddon, Stacy M. Jameson, Roblyn Rawlins, Derek B. Shaw, Amy Singer, J. Nikol Beckham, Matthew Day, Hui-tun Chuang, Zachary Schrank, Bethaney Turner, Talia Welsh ...
    Food and Everyday Life provides a qualitative, interpretive, and interdisciplinary examination of food and food practices and their meanings in the modern world. Edited by Thomas M. Conroy, the book offers a number of complementary approaches and topics around the parameters of the “ordinary, everyday” perspective on food. These studies highlight aspects of food production, distribution, and ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Feminist Existentialism, Biopolitics, and Critical Phenomenology in a Time of Bad Health

    by Talia Welsh ...
    Series series
    This book explores the personal value of healthy behavior, arguing that our modern tendency to praise or blame individuals for their health is politically and economically motivated and has reinforced growing health disparities between the wealthy and poor under the guise of individual responsibility.We are awash in concerns about the state of our health and recommendations about how to improve it ... Read more

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  • Perfect Me

    Beauty as an Ethical Ideal

    by Heather Widdows ...
    How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today’s worldThe demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today's visual and virtual culture. Rightly or wrongly, being perfect has become an ethical ideal to live by, and according to which we judge ourselves good or bad, a success or a failure. Perfect Me explores the changing nature of the beauty ideal, showing how it is more ... Read more

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  • Free Will and Consciousness

    A Determinist Account of the Illusion of Free Will

    by Gregg D. Caruso ...
    In recent decades, with advances in the behavioral, cognitive, and neurosciences, the idea that patterns of human behavior may ultimately be due to factors beyond our conscious control has increasingly gained traction and renewed interest in the age-old problem of free will. In this book, Gregg D. Caruso examines both the traditional philosophical problems long associated with the question of free ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Transgender Marxism

    Edited by Jules Joanne Gleeson, Elle O'Rourke ...
    The first collection of its kind, Transgender Marxism is a provocative and groundbreaking union of transgender studies and Marxist theory.Exploring trans lives and movements, the authors delve into the experience of surviving as transgender under capitalism. They explore the pressures, oppression and state persecution faced by trans people living in capitalist societies, their tenuous positions in ... Read more

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  • The Logic of Care

    Health and the Problem of Patient Choice

    by Annemarie Mol ...
    **Shortlisted for the BSA Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2010**What is good care? In this innovative and compelling book, Annemarie Mol argues that good care has little to do with 'patient choice' and, therefore, creating more opportunities for patient choice will not improve health care.Although it is possible to treat people who seek professional help as customers or citizens, Mol ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Side Affects

    On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

    by Hil Malatino ...
    How the “bad feelings” of trans experience inform trans survival and flourishingSome days—or weeks, or months, or even years—being trans feels bad. Yet as Hil Malatino points out, there is little space for trans people to think through, let alone speak of, these bad feelings. Negative emotions are suspect because they unsettle narratives of acceptance or reinforce virulently phobic framings of ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

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  • The Body and Social Theory

    by Chris Shilling ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    "Great to have a new edition - this is essential reading and provides a clear, accessible yet original overview of social theory and the body."- Sarah Nettleton***, University of York***"Lucidly argued and accessibly written, this book avoids the pitfalls of either too much naturalism or too much social constructivism. It is a book with something for everyone, from the classics in social theory on ... Read more

    $92.69 USD

  • Phenomenology for Therapists

    Researching the Lived World

    by Linda Finlay ...
    This book provides an accessible comprehensive exploration of phenomenological theory and research methods and is geared specifically to the needs of therapists and other health care professionals.An accessible exploration of an increasingly popular qualitative research methodologyExplains phenomenological concepts and how they are applied to different stages of the research process and to topics ... Read more

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  • The Emotions

    A Philosophical Introduction

    by Julien Deonna, Fabrice Teroni ...
    The emotions are at the centre of our lives and, for better or worse, imbue them with much of their significance. The philosophical problems stirred up by the existence of the emotions, over which many great philosophers of the past have laboured, revolve around attempts to understand what this significance amounts to. Are emotions feelings, thoughts, or experiences? If they are experiences, what ... Read more

    $62.99 USD