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  • Healing by Hand

    Manual Medicine and Bonesetting in Global Perspective

    de Marc Weill, Simon Leyson, Isaac K. Nyamongo, Eric Levi Jacobson, Robert Anderson, Norman Klein, Servando Z. Hinojosa, John W. O'Malley, SJ, Jennifer Minor0, H Vincent Black1, Hans A. Baer2, Ian Coulter3, Susan Walkley4, Carol H. Browner5 ...
    Anthropologists have routinely overlooked the practice of body therapists, one of the primary providers of 'traditional' medicine. Healing by Hand presents the first cross-cultural primer on manual medicine studies. As a particular modality of healing, manual medicine has reached a high level of popularity and importance as its practitioners investigate the body's important capacities for self ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

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  • Birth and Breastfeeding

    Rediscovering the Needs of Women During Pregnancy and Childbirth

    de Michel Odent ...
    Humanity, argues Michel Odent, stands at a crossroads in the history of childbirth - and the direction we choose to take will have critical consequences. Until recently a woman could not have had a baby without releasing a complex cocktail of 'love hormones'. In many societies today, most women give birth without relying on the release of such a flow of hormones. Some give birth via caesarean ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Primal Health

    Understanding the Critical Period Between Conception and the First Birthday

    de Michel Odent ...
    Michel Odent, the leading pioneer for natural childbirth, indicates that the period between conception and a child's first birthday is critical to life-long health. In this prophetic book - first published in 1986 and reproduced here in its original form - he argues that different parts of the 'primal adaptive system' develop, regulate and adjust themselves during foetal life and the time around ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • DNA Is Not Destiny

    The Remarkable, Completely Misunderstood Relationship between You and Your Genes

    de Steven J. Heine ...
    “[An] important book.… Heine’s vibrant writing makes it come alive with personal significance for every reader.”—Carol Dweck, author of MindsetScientists expect one billion people to have their genomes sequenced by 2025. Yet cultural psychologist Steven J. Heine argues that, in trying to know who we are and where we come from, we’re likely to completely misinterpret what’s “in our DNA.” Heine’s ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

  • Period

    The Real Story of Menstruation

    de Kate Clancy ...
    A bold and revolutionary perspective on the science and cultural history of menstruationMenstruation is something half the world does for a week at a time, for months and years on end, yet it remains largely misunderstood. Scientists once thought of an individual’s period as useless, and some doctors still believe it’s unsafe for a menstruating person to swim in the ocean wearing a tampon. Period ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Trans Bodies, Trans Selves

    A Resource by and for Transgender Communities

    Edición de Laura Erickson-Schroth ...
    There is no one way to be transgender. Trans Bodies, Trans Selves is a revolutionary resource--a comprehensive, reader-friendly guide for transgender people, with each chapter written by transgender and gender expansive authors. Inspired by Our Bodies, Ourselves, the classic and powerful compendium written by and for cisgender women, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves is widely accessible to the ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Is Breast Best?

    Taking on the Breastfeeding Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhood

    de Joan B. Wolf ...
    Series Libro 4 - Biopolitics
    Why has breastfeeding re-asserted itself over the last twenty years, and why are the government, the scientific and medical communities, and so many mothers so invested in the idea? In Is Breast Best? Joan B. Wolf challenges the widespread belief that breastfeeding is medically superior to bottle-feeding. Despite the fact that breastfeeding has become the ultimate expression of maternal dedication ... Leer más

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  • Theory Of Chinese Medicine, The: A Modern Interpretation

    de Hai Hong ...
    This path-breaking book reinterprets Chinese medicine using the approach of the philosophy of science in a manner that strikes common ground with biomedical science. It strips Chinese medical theory of the mystique and metaphysical pretentions that too often plague the discipline, presenting this theory as being derived from empirical observations and clinical findings. Concepts like qi and phlegm ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • An Anthropology of Biomedicine

    de Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Margaret M. Lock ...
    An Anthropology of Biomedicine is an exciting new introduction to biomedicine and its global implications. Focusing on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies bring about radical changes to societies at large, cultural anthropologist Margaret Lock and her co-author physician and medical anthropologist Vinh-Kim Nguyen develop and integrate the thesis that the human body in ... Leer más

    $68.50 USD

  • Living with Lupus

    Women and Chronic Illness in Ecuador

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Plastic Bodies

    Sex Hormones and Menstrual Suppression in Brazil

    de Emilia Sanabria ...
    Series series Experimental Futures
    In Plastic Bodies Emilia Sanabria examines how sex hormones are enrolled to create, mold, and discipline social relations and subjectivities. She shows how hormones have become central to contemporary understandings of the body, class, gender, sex, personhood, modernity, and Brazilian national identity. Through interviews with women and doctors; observations in clinics, research centers and ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The Anthropology of Health and Healing

    de Mari Womack ...
    The Anthropology of Health and Healing provides the first holistic approach to the study of medical anthropology. Over the past two decades, medical anthropology has been the most rapidly growing subfield in anthropology, and a number of medial anthropology texts have been published, focusing primarily on public policy and health care delivery systems. Yet while Anthropologists have researched ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD