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  • Gender, Madness, and Colonial Paranoia in Australian Literature
    Laura Deane
    This book offers an original and compelling analysis of women’s madness, gender and the Australian family. Taking up Anne McClintock’s call for critical works that psychoanalyze colonialism, this radical re-assessment of novels by Christina Stead and Kate Grenville provides a sustained account of women’s madness and masculine colonial psychosis from a feminist postcolonial pers...
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    136,16 €

  • The Health of People
    Campaign for Social Science
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    26,23 €

  • Drug Law Reform in East and Southeast Asia
    Drug Law Reform in East and Southeast Asia is a multi-author look at drugs in East and Southeast Asia, on drug policy, patterns and trends, local problems, human rights abuses, treatment prospects, and potential reforms. From the history of drugs in Asia, the book examines recent trends in illicit drugs, especially the present enormous amphetamine problems. It addresses recent ...
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    70,64 €

  • Witchcraft as a Social Diagnosis
    Elias Bongmba / Rice University Elias Bongmba / Richter / Roxane Richter / Thomas Flowers
    This book examines medical outreach in the condemned witches’ village of Gnani in Ghana, focusing on clashes between traditional beliefs, religious tenets, and contemporary medical science. It analyzes questions of stigmatization to explore how disease, injury, and illness relate to social condition and the dialogue surrounding witchcraft. ...
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    129,31 €

  • What Are You Eating? Food Journal for Eating Healthy
    @Journals Notebooks
    Healthy eating isn’t a myth. Even if you are surrounded with so many 3-minute meals out of boxes, you can still be determined to eat healthy by keeping a journal. A journal awakens your consciousness and helps you identify opportunities as they come. Keeping a food journal will also help you break down your food’s nutritional values to determine if you’re overeating or undereat...
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    15,06 €

  • What to Eat This Week? Mixing It Up Edition Journal
    @Journals Notebooks
    Create variety in your meals by creating a meal plan. A meal plan means a list of food that you are scheduled to eat for the day or the week. You can plan for meals with the right nutritional value to boost your health and even help you lose weight. Start a meal plan now! ...
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    14,11 €

  • Condition Critical
    Alice Rothchild
    Since 2003, obstetrician Alice Rothchild has traveled annually to Israel/Palestine with other concerned Americans, to learn about health and human rights situation of politically marginalized communities, especially Palestinians. Condition Critical presents key blog posts and analytical essays that explore everyday life in Israel, East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza up clos...
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    21,30 €

  • Unequal Health
    Grace Budrys
    Unequal Health examines the reasons why stark differences in health and well-being persist, even as the health care industry and access to health care grow. The third edition of this powerful book retains the accessible style and focus on inequality from previous editions while featuring significant new material throughout.After an overview of key themes, the book introduces th...
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    136,15 €

  • Unequal Health
    Grace Budrys
    Unequal Health examines the reasons why stark differences in health and well-being persist, even as the health care industry and access to health care grow. The third edition of this powerful book retains the accessible style and focus on inequality from previous editions while featuring significant new material throughout.After an overview of key themes, the book introduces th...
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    51,75 €

  • Goodbye Daddy
    Beverly Dotson
    Thoughtful and heartfelt, Goodbye Daddy is a journey of comfort, relief, enlightenment and advocacy all rolled into one woman’s insightful experiences with hundreds of families and their caregivers. Beyond the sorrow, tears, denial, disbelief and pain of losing a loved one, Beverly Dotson, a hospice and palliative care social worker, shares stories her eyes have seen and her h...
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    11,19 €

  • Immigration, Public Policy, and Health
    Dennis Raphael
    A critical assessment of how public policy affects the health of immigrants, this interdisciplinary volume is an integral contribution to the study of immigration in modern developed nations. Authors employ a welfare state analysis to examine the political and economic systems that shape public policy, turning to several Canadian and international case studies that demonstrate ...
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    148,92 €

  • Patient Multiple
    Jonathan Taee
    In the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, medical patients engage a variety of healing practices to seek cures for their ailments. Patients use the expanding biomedical network and a growing number of traditional healthcare units, while also seeking alternative practices, such as shamanism and other religious healing, or even more provocative practices. The Patient Multiple delves in...
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    184,30 €

  • Black LGBT Health in the United States
    Black LGBT Health in the United States: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation focuses on the mental, physical, and spiritual aspects of health, and considers both risk and resiliency factors for the Black LGBT population. Contributors to this collection intimately understand the associations between health and intersectional anti-Black racism, heterosexism, h...
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    136,03 €

  • Researching Corporations and Global Health Governance
    The profound changes to the world economy since the late twentieth century have been characterised by a growth in the number and size of transnational corporations. In this context, there is now increasing evidence of unprecedented reversals in health indicators among populations around the world. Research in this area has focused on documenting the global health impacts arisin...
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    171,71 €

  • Fake Healing Claims for HIV and Aids in Malawi
    Klaus Fiedler
    In this book Klaus Fiedler offers a candid critique of religious faith healing claims - a critique that extents to the Voluntary Male Medical Circumcision Campaign (VMMCC). The book reveals the lack of substantive evidence to back such healing claims and the contradiction between the VMMCC claims and the consequences of those claims in sexual health and practice. ...
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    38,02 €

  • How Nonprofits Work
    Grace Budrys
    How Nonprofits Work looks at nonprofit organizations through a sociological lens, identifying characteristics that make some nonprofits successful and characteristics that cause challenges, focusing on nonprofits in the health services sector. The book opens with helpful background information about nonprofit organizations, then shares case studies that take readers more deeply...
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    46,09 €

  • Researching Corporations and Global Health Governance
    The profound changes to the world economy since the late twentieth century have been characterised by a growth in the number and size of transnational corporations. In this context, there is now increasing evidence of unprecedented reversals in health indicators among populations around the world. Research in this area has focused on documenting the global health impacts arisin...
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    56,87 €

  • Selling Our Souls
    Adam Dalton Reich
    Health care costs make up nearly a fifth of U.S. gross domestic product, but health care is a peculiar thing to buy and sell. Both a scarce resource and a basic need, it involves physical and emotional vulnerability and at the same time it operates as big business. Patients have little choice but to trust those who provide them care, but even those providers confront a great de...
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    37,73 €

  • LEFT SHIFT
    M.DDavid NArmstrong
    As US healthcare delivery is in flux, an international surgeon dissects and scrutinizes the performance of “socialized medicine” in Britain vs the “free market” healthcare system in the US. The results are sobering. Lacking funds, resources and personnel, socialized medicine results in almost twice the death rate from breast and colon cancer and 50 percent higher mortality from...
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    33,14 €

  • LEFT SHIFT
    M.DDavid NArmstrong
    As US healthcare delivery is in flux, an international surgeon dissects and scrutinizes the performance of “socialized medicine” in Britain vs the “free market” healthcare system in the US. The results are sobering. Lacking funds, resources and personnel, socialized medicine results in almost twice the death rate from breast and colon cancer and 50 percent higher mortality from...
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    16,17 €

  • Biomedical Entanglements
    Franziska A Herbst
    Biomedical Entanglements is an ethnographic study of the Giri people of Papua New Guinea, focusing on the indigenous population's interaction with modern medicine. In her fieldwork, Franziska A. Herbst follows the Giri people as they circulate within and around ethnographic sites that include a rural health center and an urban hospital. The study bridges medical anthropolog...
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    184,24 €

  • THROW OPEN THE DOORS
    Gary Johns
    The World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control is a closed shop. It suffers strategic and resource weaknesses. The result is more harm to tobacco consumers than would otherwise be the case. As long as the sole strategy is supply and demand reduction and the dominant tactic is to use exclusion to silence debate, little progress will be evident. These weakn...
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    11,70 €

  • The Day We Gave Up Health
    Adam Musselli
    The Day We Gave Up Health. How in the world did we get so fat so fast! Obesity is now well beyond acceptable limits and it continues to rise worldwide. Even children and animals are now prone to obesity. Have we become lazier in the last few decades or is it due to our growing addiction to foods. Has global obesity become a pandemic by design or by chance? Are we, as humans, in...
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    17,18 €

  • Music, Culture, and the Politics of Health
    Austin C Okigbo / Austin C. Okigbo / Austin COkigbo
    This book is an ethnographic study of a HIV/AIDS choir who use music to articulate their individual and collective experiences of the disease. The study interrogates as to understand the bigger picture of HIV/AIDS using the approach of microanalysis of music event. It places the choir, and the cultural and political issues addressed in their music in the broader context of Sout...
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    120,85 €

  • Case Studies on Corporations and Global Health Governance
    There is growing evidence of the wide-ranging impacts of corporations in selected industries on global patterns of health and disease. However, limited analysis has been undertaken of the increasing corporate involvement in collective action needed to effectively address these impacts.This book brings together a wide ranging collection of case studies that provide new empirical...
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    171,83 €

  • Public Opinion, Public Policy, and Smoking
    Thomas R Marshall / Thomas R. Marshall / Thomas RMarshall
    Public Opinion, Public Policy, and Smoking tracks Americans’ changing attitudes about cigarette smoking over the last century. With data from more than five thousand public and privately conducted polls, this book carefully examines how Americans came to understand the health risks of smoking; how the tobacco industry sought to reframe smoking; and how public opinion support fo...
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    136,12 €

  • Case Studies on Corporations and Global Health Governance
    There is growing evidence of the wide-ranging impacts of corporations in selected industries on global patterns of health and disease. However, limited analysis has been undertaken of the increasing corporate involvement in collective action needed to effectively address these impacts.This book brings together a wide ranging collection of case studies that provide new empirical...
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    56,98 €

  • Representing Ebola
    Marouf A JrHasian / Marouf A. Jr. Hasian / Marouf AJrHasian
    Representing Ebola provides readers with a critical legal analysis of the recent West African Ebola Outbreak. The author argues that a review of the scientific, military, legal, economic, political, and mediated coverage of this latest outbreak highlights the ways that organizations like the World Health Organization or Doctors Without Borders want to conceptualize the importan...
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    115,20 €

  • Socialising the Biomedical Turn in HIV Prevention
    Niamh Stephenson / Susan Kippax
    This book addresses the major challenge for HIV prevention: that is, to reach beyond the limitations of biomedical approaches to disease and to design prevention strategies informed by and connected with the social realities of people’s lives. ...
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    165,84 €

  • Health Communication and Breast Cancer among Black Women
    Annette D. Madlock / Annette DMadlock / Annette DMadlock Gatison
    Health Communication and Breast Cancer among Black Women: Culture, Identity, Spirituality, and Strength addresses how the discourse of strength constructs the identity of Black women even during times of chronic illness through the lens of Black feminist thought and womanist ideology. In doing so, Madlock Gatison explores how the narratives surrounding pink ribbon awareness and...
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    119,96 €


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