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  • - Surviving AIDS in Uganda
     
    338,95 kr.

    During the first decade of this millennium, many thousands of people in Uganda who otherwise would have died from AIDS got second chances at life. The essays in Second Chances draw on personal accounts and a broad knowledge of Ugandan culture and history to explore antiretroviral therapy from the perspective of those people.

  • af Joao Biehl & Vincanne Adams
    354,95 - 1.177,95 kr.

  • af Todd Meyers
    307,95 - 1.054,95 kr.

    Todd Meyers offers an intimate ethnographic portrait of a woman he met during his fieldwork as a way to explore the complexity of the anthropologist's personal relationships with their subjects and how to speak of and to someone who is gone.

  • af Bharat Jayram Venkat
    336,95 - 1.147,95 kr.

    Drawing on historical and ethnographic research on tuberculosis in India, Bharat Jayram Venkat explores what it means to be cured and what it means for a cure to be partial, temporary, or selectively effective.

  • - Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi
    af Dwaipayan Banerjee
    310,95 - 1.090,95 kr.

    Dwaipayan Banerjee explores the efforts of Delhi's urban poor to create a livable life with cancer as they negotiate an over-extended health system unequipped to respond to the disease.

  • - Lyme Disease, Contested Illness, and Evidence-Based Medicine
    af Abigail A. Dumes
    350,95 - 1.112,95 kr.

    Abigail A. Dumes offers an ethnographic exploration of the Lyme disease controversy to shed light on the relationship between contested illness and evidence-based medicine in the United States.

  • - A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa
    af Julie Livingston
    275,95 - 893,95 kr.

    Julie Livingston shows how the global pursuit of economic and resource-driven growth comes at the expense of catastrophic destruction, thereby upending popular notions that economic growth and development is necessary for improving a community's wellbeing.

  • - A Field Diary, Zambezi Valley, 1984-1985
    af Pamela Reynolds
    298,95 - 938,95 kr.

    Anthropologist Pamela Reynolds shares her fieldwork diary from her time spent in Zimbabwe's Zambezi valley during the 1980s, in which she recounts the difficulties, pleasures, and contradictions of studying the daily lives of the Tonga people three decades after their forced displacement.

  • - Men's Medicine and Sexual Desire in Contemporary China
    af Everett Yuehong Zhang
    334,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

    In this ethnography of impotence as a medical and social phenomenon, Everett Yuehong Zhang argues that the recent increase in Chinese men seeking treatment for impotence represents a shift in changing sexual attitudes in capitalist China.

  • af Kelly Ray Knight
    388,95 - 1.112,95 kr.

    In this ethnography of addicted, pregnant, and poor women living in daily-rent hotels in San Francisco, Kelly Ray Knight examines the myriad struggles these women face, as well as their encounters with social and medical institutions. She asks: what kinds of futures are possible for these women?

  • - Surviving AIDS in Uganda
     
    1.110,95 kr.

    During the first decade of this millennium, many thousands of people in Uganda who otherwise would have died from AIDS got second chances at life. The essays in Second Chances draw on personal accounts and a broad knowledge of Ugandan culture and history to explore antiretroviral therapy from the perspective of those people.

  • - Making African Global Health
     
    350,95 kr.

  • - Making African Global Health
     
    1.112,95 kr.

    P. Wenzel Geissler is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. He is the coauthor (with R. J. Prince) of The Land Is Dying and coeditor of a number of books, including Evidence, Ethos and Experiment.

  • - Culture and Politics in an African Research World
    af Cal (Crystal) Biruk
    326,95 - 1.095,95 kr.

    In Cooking Data Crystal Biruk offers an ethnographic account of research into the demographics of HIV and AIDS in Malawi in which she rethinks how quantitative health data is produced by showing how data production is inevitably entangled with the lives of those who produce it.

  • - The Work of Care in Mozambique
    af Ramah McKay
    310,95 - 963,95 kr.

    Ramah McKay follows two medical projects in Mozambique through the day-to-day lives of patients and health care providers, showing how transnational medical resources and infrastructures give rise to diverse possibilities for work and care amid constraint.

  • - Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives, and Where to Draw the Line
    af Sharon R. Kaufman
    265,95 - 1.110,95 kr.

    Sharon R. Kaufman examines the quandary of patients, families and doctors not knowing the point where enough medical treatment becomes too much treatment. A hidden chain of drivers among science, industry, new technology, and insurance spur this quandary, serving to obscure the ability to identify the difference between extraordinary and ordinary medicine.

  • - Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India
    af Harris Solomon
    337,95 - 1.147,95 kr.

    In Metabolic Living Harris Solomon studies obesity and diabetes in Mumbai, India, presenting a new narrative of metabolic illness in which it is less about the overconsumption of food than it is about the body's relationship to its environment and the substances it absorbs.

  • - What Counts in Global Health
    af Vincanne Adams
    368,95 - 1.091,95 kr.

    The contributors to Metrics use ethnographic evidence from around the globe to evaluate the accomplishments, limits, and the consequences of applying metrics to global health. Now the standard in measuring global health program success, metrics has far implications that extend beyond patients to the political and financial realms.

  • - The Weight of Life at Walter Reed
    af Zoe H. Wool
    323,95 - 1.093,95 kr.

    Zoe H. Wool explores how the most severely injured veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars rehabilitating at Walter Reed Medical Center-whether recovering from losing a limb or sustaining a traumatic brain injury-struggle to build some kind of ordinary life in a situation that is anything but ordinary.

  • - Rabies, Indigenous Knowledge, and Communicative Justice
    af Charles L. Briggs & Clara Mantini-Briggs
    350,95 - 1.149,95 kr.

    This gripping book narrates the efforts to identify a strange disease that killed thirty-eight people in a Venezuelan rainforest between 2007 and 2008 and sketches out systematic health inequities regarding the rights to produce and circulate knowledge about health throughout indigenous communities.

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