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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

  • Wellness Beyond Words

    Maya Compositions of Speech and Silence in Medical Care

    by T.S. Harvey ...
    The delivery of health care can present a minefield of communication problems, particularly in cross-cultural settings where patients and health practitioners come from dissimilar cultures and speak different languages. Responding to the need for in-depth ethnographic studies in cultural and communicative competence, this anthropological account of Maya language use in health care in highland ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

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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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  • The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine

    by Rita Charon, Sayantani DasGupta, Nellie Hermann, Craig Irvine, Eric R. Marcus, Edgar Rivera Colsn, Danielle Spencer, Maura Spiegel ...
    Narrative medicine is a fresh discipline of health care that helps patients and health professionals to tell and listen to the complex and unique stories of illness. The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine expresses the collective experience and discoveries of the originators of the field. Arising at Columbia University in 2000 from roots in the humanities and patient-centered care, ... Read more

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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 Outward Path

    The Wisdom of the Aztecs

    by Sebastian Purcell ...
    A practical and eye-opening guide to the Aztec philosophy on how to live.During the twilight decades of their empire, the learned ones among the Aztec filled numerous volumes with philosophical and ethical thought in testimony recorded by Spanish priests. However, these have been largely overlooked and Westerners often see Aztec culture as a matter for history, anthropology, and archaeology—not ... Read more

    $20.59 USD

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  • Inclusion

    The Politics of Difference in Medical Research

    by Steven Epstein ...
    With Inclusion, Steven Epstein argues that strategies to achieve diversity in medical research mask deeper problems, ones that might require a different approach and different solutions.Formal concern with this issue, Epstein shows, is a fairly recent phenomenon. Until the mid-1980s, scientists often studied groups of white, middle-aged men—and assumed that conclusions drawn from studying them ... Read more

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  • Translanguaging with Multilingual Students

    Learning from Classroom Moments

    Edited by Ofelia García, Tatyana Kleyn ...
    Looking closely at what happens when translanguaging is actively taken up to teach emergent bilingual students across different contexts, this book focuses on how it is already happening in classrooms as well as how it can be implemented as a pedagogical orientation. It extends theoretical understandings of the concept and highlights its promises and challenges. Using a Transformative Action ... Read more

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  • When People Come First

    Critical Studies in Global Health

    Edited by João Biehl, Adriana Petryna ...
    A people-centered approach to global healthWhen People Come First critically assesses the expanding field of global health. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address the medical, social, political, and economic dimensions of the global health enterprise through vivid case studies and bold conceptual work. The book demonstrates the crucial role of ... Read more

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  • Intercultural Communication

    A Practical Guide

    by Tracy Novinger ...
    Successfully communicating with people from another culture requires learning more than just their language. While fumbling a word or phrase may cause embarrassment, breaking the unspoken cultural rules that govern personal interactions can spell disaster for businesspeople, travelers, and indeed anyone who communicates across cultural boundaries. To help you avoid such damaging gaffes, Tracy ... Read more

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  • Living with Lupus

    Women and Chronic Illness in Ecuador

    by Ann Miles ...
    Series series Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series
    Once associated only with the wealthy and privileged in Latin America, lifelong illnesses are now emerging among a wider cross section of the population as an unfortunate consequence of growing urbanization and increased life expectancy. One of these diseases is the chronic autoimmune disorder lupus erythematosus. Difficult to diagnose and harder still to effectively manage, lupus challenges the ... Read more

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