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  • Islam and New Kinship
    Morgan Clarke
    Clarke engages in a thorough and captivating assessment of the numerous fatwas issued in the context of global Islamic legal scholarship concerning medical ethics, in particular, medically assisted conception . . . This book will be of considerable interest to scholars in the areas of gender and health, reproduction and reproductive technologies, Islamicists, and those engaged ...
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    44,47 €

  • Migration-Induced HIV and AIDS in Rural Mozambique and Swaziland
    Jonathan Crush
    South Africa’s gold mining workforce has the highest prevalence rates of tuberculosis and HIV infection of any industrial sector in the country. The contract migrant labour system, which has long outlived apartheid, is responsible for this unacceptable situation. The spread of HIV to rural communities in Southern Africa is not well understood. The accepted wisdom is that migran...
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    42,92 €

  • Unsafe Motherhood
    Nicole S. Berry / Nicole SBerry
    '...a compelling account of maternal mortality and maternal health care among indigenous populations in Guatemala.' · Sarah Pinto, Tufts UniversitySince 1987, when the global community first recognized the high frequency of women in developing countries dying from pregnancy-related causes, little progress has been made to combat this problem. This study follows the global pol...
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    184,15 €

  • Fat China
    Matthew Crabbe / Paul French
    ’Fat China’ provides an in-depth analysis of the growing problem of obesity in China and its relationship to the nation’s changing diet, lifestyle trends and healthcare system. ...
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    142,23 €

  • Fat China
    Matthew Crabbe / Paul French
    ’Fat China’ provides an in-depth analysis of the growing problem of obesity in China and its relationship to the nation’s changing diet, lifestyle trends and healthcare system. ...
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    33,54 €

  • The Hidden Health Care System
    Ellen L Idler / Lowell S Levin
    Health care policy traditionally views lay people as health care consumers. This groundbreaking book offers evidence of a new perspective: lay people are the primary providers of health care. The family, organized religion, voluntary associations, neighborhoods, and ethnic and racial groups act as a buffer between the individual and the large institutions of modern society. ...
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    18,10 €

  • Directory of Biomedical and Health Care Grants 2010
    Grants are supposed to enable work, not create more of it. You need a guide, a map, and the right tools for the job. Helping you from your earliest brainstorming sessions to fully funded projects, this essential directory offers countless tips and resources for novice and experienced researchers seeking funding for anyone seeking funding for research, faculty development, disse...
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    149,14 €

  • The Anthropology of Health and Healing
    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...
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    186,64 €

  • The Anthropology of Health and Healing
    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...
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    104,50 €

  • Youth, HIV/AIDS and Social Transformations in Africa
    Ayalew Gebre / Donald Anthony Mwiturubani / Margarida Paulo
    The five research reports that constitute this monograph are a fruit of the collaboration between the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in African (CODESRIA) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), two institutions with a longstanding interest in the study of youth and social transformations in Africa. Under the collaboration, 12 young African resea...
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    51,46 €

  • Can We Live Forever?
    Bryan S. Turner / Bryan STurner
    An enlightening look into the medical, cultural, religious and philosophical implications of life extension. ...
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    142,54 €

  • Can We Live Forever?
    Bryan S. Turner / Bryan STurner
    An enlightening look into the medical, cultural, religious and philosophical implications of life extension. ...
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    47,43 €

  • This Little Kiddy Went To Market
    Richard Gosden / Sharon Beder / Wendy Varney
    This book investigates the way that corporations are strategically shaping children to be hyper-consumers as well as the submissive employees and uncritical citizens of the future.Sharon Beder shows how marketers and advertisers are targeting ever younger children in a relentless campaign, transforming children’s play into a commercial opportunity and taking advantage of childi...
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    147,64 €

  • Let Them Eat Junk
    Robert Albritton
    This book to analyses the food industry from a Marxist perspective.Let The Eat Junk argues that the capitalist system, far from delivering on the promise of cheap, nutritious food for all, has created a world where 25% of the world population are over-fed and 25% are hungry. This malnourishment of 50% of the world’s population is explained systematically, a refreshing change fr...
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    44,67 €

  • The Concept of Botho and HIV/AIDS in Botswana
    Ever since the publication of Placide Tempel’s epoch-making work Bantu Philosophy, African philosophers have worked to dispel the myth that there is no metaphysics in Africa. In the East African context we remember the names of Joseph Nyasmi and Odera Oruka, and in the West African context, Pauline Hotoundji and Kwesi Wiredu have made monumental contributions to elucidate Afric...
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    51,46 €

  • Culture, Entertainment and Health Promotion in Africa
    Kimani Njogu
    This book brings together multiple voices and positions from Africa. These voices, assembled during a 2003 Soap Summit held in Nairobi, are powerful and varied and suggest ways in which issues of health could be tackled in an entertaining manner. The summit organised by Population Communications International - Africa. highlighted the critical role that the arts can play in ens...
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    59,98 €

  • As They See It
    Raymond Downing
    African AIDS, in the West, is often associated with media images of skeletal, forlorn-looking and dying Africans inviting the sympathy of the viewer or reader. Associated with these images are often motleys of subtly hidden narratives - poverty, promiscuity, failed leadership, impending Armageddon, and lately the greed and heartlessness of Western drugs companies who are harang...
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    25,79 €

  • Beyond Shame
    Patrick Moore
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    17,79 €

  • Future of the Disabled in Liberal Society, The
    Hans S. Reinders / Hans SReinders
    The Future of the Disabled in Liberal Society questions developments in human genetic research from the perspective of persons with mental disabilities and their families. Hans S. Reinders argues that when we use terms such as 'disease' and 'defect' to describe conditions that genetic engineering might well eliminate, we may also be assuming that disabled lives are deplorable a...
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    41,20 €


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