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  • Gone Gone

    by Todd Meyers ...
    In Gone Gone, Todd Meyers reckons with grief in the face of overdose death and with the afterlives of loss created by the opioid crisis. Through conversations with friends, lovers, and family members of those who are gone, Meyers brings readers into an inquiry about lives shared, told through tenderness and tragedy. Meyers seeks to find methods to record and convey the many experiences of grief in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • All That Was Not Her

    by Todd Meyers ...
    Series series Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
    While studying caregiving and chronic illness in families living in situations of economic and social insecurity in Baltimore, anthropologist Todd Meyers met a woman named Beverly. In All That Was Not Her Meyers presents an intimate ethnographic portrait of Beverly, stitching together small moments they shared scattered over months and years and, following her death, into the present. He meditates ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Clinic and Elsewhere

    Addiction, Adolescents, and the Afterlife of Therapy

    by Todd Meyers ...
    Series series In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science
    Despite increasingly nuanced understandings of the neurobiology of addiction and a greater appreciation of the social and economic conditions that allow drug dependency to persist, there remain many unknowns regarding the individual experience of substance abuse and its treatment. In recent years, novel pharmaceutical therapies have given rise to both new hopes for recovery and renewed fears about ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Lilac People

    by Milo Todd ...
    Narrated by Max Meyers ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 19 min

    A moving and deeply humane story about a trans man who must relinquish the freedoms of prewar Berlin to survive first the Nazis then the Allies, all while protecting the ones he lovesIn 1932 Berlin, a trans man named Bertie and his friends spend carefree nights at the Eldorado Club, the epicenter of Berlin's thriving queer community. An employee of the renowned Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld at the ... Read more

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  • The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe

    Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War

    The injuries suffered by soldiers during WWI were as varied as they were brutal. How could the human body suffer and often absorb such disparate traumas? Why might the same wound lead one soldier to die but allow another to recover?In The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe, Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers uncover a fascinating story of how medical scientists came to conceptualize the body as ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • A Cultural History of Medicine in the Modern Age

    Edited by Todd Meyers ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    A Cultural History of Medicine presents anauthoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumescovers over 2500 years of history, charting the changes in medical experience,knowledge and practices throughout history.This volume, ACultural History of Medicine in the Modern Age, explores medicine as acultural practice from 1920 to the present day. As with all the volumes in ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Realizing the Witch

    Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible

    Series series Forms of Living
    Benjamin Christensen’s Häxan (The Witch, 1922) stands as a singular film within the history of cinema. Deftly weaving contemporary scientific analysis and powerfully staged historical scenes of satanic initiation, confession under torture, possession, and persecution, Häxan creatively blends spectacle and argument to provoke a humanist re-evaluation of witchcraft in European history as well as the ... Read more

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  • Cytomegalovirus

    A Hospitalization Diary

    Translated by Clara Orban ...
    Series series Forms of Living
    By the time of his death, Herve Guibert had become a singular literary voice on the impact of AIDS in France. He was prolific. His oeuvre contained some twenty novels, including To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life and The Compassion Protocol. He was thirty-six years old. In Cytomegalovirus, Guibert offers an autobiographical narrative of the everyday moments of his hospitalization because of ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century

    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

  • Farming across Borders

    A Transnational History of the North American West

    Series series Connecting the Greater West Series
    Farming across Borders uses agricultural history to connect the regional experiences of the American West, northern Mexico, western Canada, and the North American side of the Pacific Rim, now writ large into a broad history of the North American West. Case studies of commodity production and distribution, trans-border agricultural labor, and environmental change unite to reveal new perspectives on ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Hawkins' Heroes: Hell's Highway

    Hawkins’ Heroes, #2

    Series Book 2 - Hawkins’ Heroes
    Eddie Hawkins is the cupola gunner on a Humvee based in Afghanistan. He has a reputation as a man who shoots first and shoots straight, until things start to unravel. Ordered to accompany a combat engineer to give covering fire while he clears a dangerous highway of IEDs, a brutal, bullying Master Sergeant gives him the wrong route. The result is a debacle, American lives are lost, and they blame ... Read more

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  • Hawkins' Heroes Series - Box Set (1-6)

    Eddie Hawkins is part of a four-man crew, the cupola gunner on a Humvee in Afghanistan. His job, firing the .50 caliber Browning. His mission, to protect his buddies and kill the enemy.He's also the newest and youngest member of the team. Just a kid with a passion for gaming, where he uses a different set of shooting skills. The dismiss him as a newbie, a rookie. A guy they won't listen to, even ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus