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Princeton University Press The Genome Factor What the Social Genomics
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Co-Winner of the 2018 Best Book Award, Evolution, Biology, and Society Section, American Sociological Association""Winner of the 2018 Otis Dudley Duncan Award, Section on Population of the American Sociological Association"
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Indian Gaming and Tribal Sovereignty
Book SynopsisProviding a clear account of the laws and politics of Indian gaming, this book explains how it has become one of the most politically charged phenomena: at stake are a host of competing legal rights and political interests for tribal, state, and federal governments. This book uses examples that reflect a wide range of tribal experience.Trade Review“Light and Rand have studied the history, legalities, economics, politics, and social issues surrounding Indian casinos to produce this readable and highly informative volume. Their work, the most significant and comprehensive book on the subject to date, remarkably examines and documents from both Indian and non-Indian perspectives the wide array of concerns, public policy shifts, and sovereignty issues that have surfaced in the wake of the ever-increasing visibility of Native American casinos. Highly recommended.”—Choice“The best book on Indian gaming to date. . . . Belongs in every serious American Indian studies collection.”—Wicazo Sa Review: A Journal of Native American Studies
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McGill-Queen's University Press A Sadly Troubled History
Book SynopsisMore people die by suicide each year than by homicide, wars, and terrorist attacks combined. Witnesses and survivors are left perplexed and troubled. Doctors, clinical psychologists, and social workers try to deal with it through their professional routines; sociologists and psychiatrists attempt to provide theoretical explanations of it. In a study of nearly 7000 suicides from 1900 to 1950 in New Zealand and Queensland, Australia, John Weaver documents the challenges that ordinary people experienced during turbulent times and, using witnesses'' testimony, death bed statements, and suicide notes, reconstructs individuals'' thoughts as they decide whether to endure their suffering. Bridging social and medical history, Weaver presents an intellectual and political history of suicide studies, a revealing construction and deconstruction of suicide rates, a discussion of gender, life stages, and socio-economic circumstances in relation to suicide patterns, reflections on reasoning processes
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McGill-Queen's University Press Working Bodies
Book SynopsisAn informative look at the experience of navigating the Canadian workplace while living with chronic illness.Trade Review"Working Bodies is a major contribution to research in the field of chronic illness and injury, especially in addressing work-related issues for those impacted. The notion that lived experience for those with chronic illness, especially at work is 'capricious' and 'laced with uncertainty' is so true and is captured very well in this important and immensely readable collection." Margaret H. Vickers, School of Business, University of Western Sydney
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University of British Columbia Press Intoxicating Manchuria
Book SynopsisIn China, both opium and alcohol were used for centuries in the pursuit of health and leisure while simultaneously linked to personal and social decline. The impact of these substances is undeniable, and the role they have played in Chinese social, cultural, and economic history is extremely complex.In Intoxicating Manchuria, Norman Smith reveals how warlord rule, Japanese occupation, and political conflict affected local intoxicant industries. These industries flourished throughout the early twentieth century, even as a vigorous anti-intoxicant movement raged. Through the lens of popular Chinese media depictions of alcohol and opium, Smith analyzes how intoxicants and addiction were understood in this society, the role the Japanese occupation of Manchuria played in their portrayal, and the efforts made to reduce opium and alcohol consumption. This is the first English-language book-length study to focus on alcohol use in modern China and the first dealing with intoxTable of ContentsIntroduction1 Alcohol and Opium in China2 Manchurian Context3 Evaluating Alcohol4 Selling Alcohol, Selling Modernity5 Writing Intoxicant Consumption6 The Hostess Scare7 Reasoning Addiction, Taking the Cures8 The Opium Monopoly’s “Interesting Discussion”ConclusionGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Thinking Differently about HIVAIDS
Book SynopsisAlmost four decades after the discovery of HIV/AIDS, Thinking Differently about HIV/AIDS: Contributions from Critical Social Science demonstrates the essential role of critical social science in helping us understand the complexity of the epidemic and develop appropriate solutions.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Knowing and Responding to HIV/AIDS Differently / Eric Mykhalovskiy and Viviane NamastePart 1: Critical Dispositions1 On the Possibility of Being Governed Otherwise: Exploring Foucault’s Legacy for Critical Social Science Studies in the Field of HIV/AIDS / Adrian Guta and Stuart J. Murray2 Tracking Treatment Adherence: Should Critical Social Scientific Accounts of HIV Theorize Non-Human Actants? / Martin French3 Institutional Ethnography as a Critical Research Strategy: Access, Engagement, and Implications for HIV/AIDS Research / Daniel Grace4 Conversation Analysis and Critical Social Science: The Interactional Organization of HIV-Positive Disclosures / Jeffrey P. Aguinaldo5 Indigenous Knowing in HIV Research in Canada: A Reflexive Dialogue / Randy JacksonPart 2: Empirical Case Studies6 Thinking Critically about HIV Prevention for Gay and Bisexual Men / Barry D. Adam7 Undetectable Optimism: The Science of Gay Male Sexual Risk-Taking and Serosorting in the Context of Uncertain Knowledge of Viral Load / Mark Gaspar8 A Critical Case-Study Analysis of the Logic and Practices of Prescribing HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) to At-Risk Adolescents / Chris Sanders, Jill Owczarzak and Andrew Petroll9 The Social Relations of Disclosure: Critical Reflections on the Community-Based Response to HIV Criminalization / Colin Hastings10 Epidemiology, the Media, and Vancouver’s Public Health Emergency: A Critical Ethnography / Denielle ElliottConclusion / Viviane Namaste and Eric MykhalovskiyList of Contributors; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Thinking Differently about HIVAIDS
Book SynopsisAlmost four decades after the discovery of HIV/AIDS, Thinking Differently about HIV/AIDS: Contributions from Critical Social Science demonstrates the essential role of critical social science in helping us understand the complexity of the epidemic and develop appropriate solutions.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Knowing and Responding to HIV/AIDS Differently / Eric Mykhalovskiy and Viviane NamastePart 1: Critical Dispositions1 On the Possibility of Being Governed Otherwise: Exploring Foucault’s Legacy for Critical Social Science Studies in the Field of HIV/AIDS / Adrian Guta and Stuart J. Murray2 Tracking Treatment Adherence: Should Critical Social Scientific Accounts of HIV Theorize Non-Human Actants? / Martin French3 Institutional Ethnography as a Critical Research Strategy: Access, Engagement, and Implications for HIV/AIDS Research / Daniel Grace4 Conversation Analysis and Critical Social Science: The Interactional Organization of HIV-Positive Disclosures / Jeffrey P. Aguinaldo5 Indigenous Knowing in HIV Research in Canada: A Reflexive Dialogue / Randy JacksonPart 2: Empirical Case Studies6 Thinking Critically about HIV Prevention for Gay and Bisexual Men / Barry D. Adam7 Undetectable Optimism: The Science of Gay Male Sexual Risk-Taking and Serosorting in the Context of Uncertain Knowledge of Viral Load / Mark Gaspar8 A Critical Case-Study Analysis of the Logic and Practices of Prescribing HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) to At-Risk Adolescents / Chris Sanders, Jill Owczarzak and Andrew Petroll9 The Social Relations of Disclosure: Critical Reflections on the Community-Based Response to HIV Criminalization / Colin Hastings10 Epidemiology, the Media, and Vancouver’s Public Health Emergency: A Critical Ethnography / Denielle ElliottConclusion / Viviane Namaste and Eric MykhalovskiyList of Contributors; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Screening Out HIV Testing and the Canadian
Book SynopsisA critical, compassionate, and highly readable narrative-driven analysis, this is the first-ever inquiry into how the Canadian immigration medical program works in practice to screen out people with HIV.Trade ReviewLaura Bisaillon’s Screening Out is a brilliant and much needed study of one barely known aspect of the Canadian immigration system: the medical screening of immigration applicants and the mandatory testing for HIV. -- Valentina Capurri, Toronto Metropolitan University * Canadian Journal of Disability Studies *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1 “Good Chickens” and “Bad Chickens”: The Immigration Application2 “It would be great to have you move to Canada”: The Medical Examination3 “It was just a form. I did not get a copy”: The Immigration DoctorConclusionNotes; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Screening Out
Book SynopsisA critical, compassionate, and highly readable narrative-driven analysis, this is the first-ever inquiry into how the Canadian immigration medical program works in practice to screen out people with HIV.Trade ReviewLaura Bisaillon’s Screening Out is a brilliant and much needed study of one barely known aspect of the Canadian immigration system: the medical screening of immigration applicants and the mandatory testing for HIV. -- Valentina Capurri, Toronto Metropolitan University * Canadian Journal of Disability Studies *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1 “Good Chickens” and “Bad Chickens”: The Immigration Application2 “It would be great to have you move to Canada”: The Medical Examination3 “It was just a form. I did not get a copy”: The Immigration DoctorConclusionNotes; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Global Health Security in China Japan and India
Book SynopsisGlobal Health Security in China, Japan, and India uses the targets set by the UN Sustainable Development Goals to conduct an impressively thorough assessment of coordinated health care in three major Asian countries.Table of ContentsForeword / Pitman B. PotterIntroduction: Framing Global Health Security in China, Japan and India Using the Sustainable Development Goals / Lesley A. Jacobs, Yoshitaka Wada, and Ilan VertinskyPart 1: Strengthening Access to Health Services1 Providing Access to Affordable Medicines and Health Care for All in China / Wenqin Liang and Ilan Vertinsky2 Mixed Billing and New Medicine in Japan: Will Lifting the Ban on Mixed Billing Improve Access to Health Care or Crash the System? / Yoshitaka Wada3 Health for All: Can India Meet Its International Human Rights Obligations? / Tiffany Chua, Marc McCrum, and Ilan VertinskyPart 2: Protecting and Promoting Public Health4 Linking Public Health Targets of the Sustainable Development Goals to Human Rights Performance in China / Lesley A. Jacobs5 Moving Japan Towards the Global Standard for Vaccines / Toshimi Nakanashi6 Global Health Standards and Food Security: Exploring the Double Science Standard of Review Under the SPS Agreement after India – Agricultural Products / Mariela de AmstaldenPart 3: Engaging and Integrating Global Markets in Primary Health Care and Public Health7 Does China National Tobacco Corporation Threaten Global Public Health? / Jennifer Fang, Kelley Lee, and Nidhi Sejpal Pouranik8 Exit and Voice Strategies by Patients in Dealing with Incentive Structures in the Chinese Healthcare System / Neil Munro and Ziying He9 Global Markets in Medicine: Japan’s Health Care Service Exports to Singapore and India / Hiroyuki KojinReferences; Contributors; Index
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University of British Columbia Press AntiAsian Racism and the COVID19 Pandemic in Canada
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The UCSF AIDS Health Project Guide to Counseling
Book SynopsisThis text comprises specific counselling approaches to help HIV positive people live with their illness. Also discussed is familiarity with specific techniques to treat AIDS clients experiencing substance abuse problems, personality disorders, and other dual diagnoses.Trade Review"This practical and state-of-the-art compAndium is a rich resourcethat should be a ?must read' for every health professional workingin the field of HIV.... The book is bound to instantaneously becomethe standard against which other books in the field will bejudged." (Michael Shernoff, editor of The Second Decade of AIDS: AMental Health Practice Handbook and Counseling Chemically DependentPeople with HIV Illness) "This is a startling book which eloquently presents insight andguidance on all levels of counseling around HIV issues....Thorough, articulate, practical, and shows a depth of understandingwhich can only emerge at the confluence of excellent academia andextensive experience." (Lorraine Sherr, Churchill Fellow, RoyalFree Hospital School of Medicine, University College London MedicalSchool) "This volume is authored and compiled by some of the mostexperienced and thoughtful authorities in the field. In itsdetailed consideration of the behavioral aspects of thetransmission and the mental health consequences of HIV infection,this volume provides an invaluable and welcome resource." (RichardW. Price, chief, neurology service, San Francisco General Hospitaland professor of neurology, University of California San Francisco)Table of ContentsPart I: Risk and Behavior: Helping Clients Remain Uninfected. 1. Harm Reduction and Client-Centered Counseling. 2. Counseling and Testing: Behavior Change and Mental Health. 3. Behavior Change Theory and HIV Prevention. 4. Moral and Psychological Development. 5. Prevention and Culture: Working Downhill to Change HIV RiskBehavior. 6. Substance Use Case Management and Harm Reduction Guide. Part II: Transformation and Psychotherapy: Helping Clients Livewith HIV. 7. Disease as an Agent of Transformation: A Survey of PsychologicalApproaches. 8. The Role of Psychotherapy in Coping the HIV Disease. 9. HIV Disease over the Long Haul: Hope, Uncertainty, andSurvival. 10. Beyond Stereotypes: Stigmas and the Counseling Process. Part III: Distress and Disorder: Helping Clients with PsychiatricConditions. 11. Anxiety and Depression: Mood and HIV Disease. 12. The Clinical Management of AIDS Bereavement. 13. Personality Disorders and HIV Disease: The Case of theBorderline Client. 14. The Wild Care of Triple Diagnosis: HIV, Mental Illness, andSubstance Abuse. 15. The Diagnosis and Management of HIV-Related Organic MentalDisorders. Part IV: Therapeutic Practice and Countertransference: PersonalChallenges for Therapists. 16. Present in the Balance of Time: The Therapist'sChallenge. 17. Making Difficult Decisions: Suicide and AIDS. 18. Multiple Loss and the Grief of Working in the Epidemic.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The Meaning of Addiction
Book SynopsisA controversial and persuasive analysis of addiction A tour de force, a spectacular effort of research andunderstanding. This book gives us the courage to bypass diseasenotions to deal with intrapsychic, family system, and social andcultural dynamics in addiction. ?David Cook, Counseling and Psychological Services, University ofWisconsin This compelling and controversial book challenges the widelyaccepted belief that alcohol and drug addiction have a genetic orbiological basis. The so-called disease theory suggests that a substance or activity can cause the addict to losecontrol of his behavior. Stanton Peele demonstrates how this notionfails to make sense of scientific observations. Analyzing studies of drug and cigarette addiction, alcoholism,obesity, and other potential compulsions such as running and sex,Peele reveals the surprising frequency of self-cure as part of theevidence. The author finds that compulsive habits and depAndencyare a way of coTrade Review"A tour de force, a spectacular effort of research andunderstanding. This book gives us the courage to bypass diseasenotions to deal with intrapsychic, family system, and social andcultural dynamics in addiction." (David Cook, Counseling andPsychological Services, University of Wisconsin) "The Meaning of Addiction presented a new paradigm of addiction.The field has since become more open to the kind of complex,contextual view of addiction and compulsive behavior that itpresents. Nonetheless, it remains the classic source for expressingthis point of view." (Archie Brodsky, Department of Psychiatry,Harvard Medical School) "Peele's theory of 'addiction as an experience' in The Meaning ofAddiction remains a pathbreaking one that offers readers anaccessible and empowering understanding of their own experiences,desires, and addictions. For understanding addictions, Peele is inmy view (and for my courses on this subject) still the source ofall sources." (Richard J. DeGrandpre, Department of Psychology, St.Michael's College, Burlington, Vermon) "Stanton Peele's books have been instrumental in helping meunderstand my own underlying causes of addiction and how, howeverwell-intentioned the 12-step model is, it led me to focus on thewrong aspects of addiction." (Marianne Gilliam, author, HowAlcoholics Anonymous Failed Me) "Offers a thought-provoking, insightful, and controversialperspective on the etiology of addictive behaviors. Peelechallenges the biological model and provides an importantalternative view on addictive behaviors. The Meaning of Addictionshould be required reading for students and professionals alike."(Kim Fromme, Department of Psychology, University of Texas) "Given the extraordinary, but largely unsubstantiated, confidencethat many in both the public an professional ranks have insimplistic conceptualizations of addictive behavior, it isreassuring that sophisticated and provocative alternatives such asthose proposed by Stanton Peele in The Meaning of Addiction surfacefrom time to time. It offers hope for constructive change byputting reason an choice back into the addiction formula." (Alan R.Lang, Department of Psychology, Florida State University) "This is a book to be read slowly, to be taken seriously, and to bedebated hotly by every professional in the field. This wholesubject is one of the major medical political and society problemsof our civilization, and we seem unable to find any workablesolution." (John A. Owen, Jr., M.D., Professor of InternalMedicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine)Table of ContentsThe Concept of Addiction: Opiate Addiction in the United States andthe Western World Divergent Evidence about Narcotic AddictionNonbiological Factors in Addiction The Nature of Addiction. The American Image of Alcohol: Does Liquor Have the Power toCorrupt and Control?: The Disease of Alcoholism Historical, Social,Ethnic, and Economic Factors in Alcoholism in the United States TheSocial Science Challenge to Disease Theory Controlled-DrinkingTherapy for Alcoholism. Theories of Addiction: Stanton Peele and Bruce K. Alexander GeneticTheories Exposure Theories: Biological Models Exposure Theories:Conditioning Models Adaptation Theories The Requirements of aSuccessful Theory of Addiction. Adult, Infant, and Animal Addiction: Bruce K. Alexander, StantonPeele, Patricia F. Hadaway, Stanley J. Morse, Archie Brodsky, andBarry L. Beyerstein. Addiction to an Experience: Elements of the Addictive ExperienceSusceptibility to Addiction and the Choice of Addictive Object:Social and Cultural Factors Susceptibility to and Choice ofAddiction: Situational Factors Susceptibiltity to and Choice ofAddiction: Individual Factors Susceptibility to and Choice ofAddiction: Developmental Factors The Nature of Addiction: TheAddiction Cycle. The Impaired Society: The Narcotic Connection--Supply and DemandThe Negative Effects of the Belief in Chemical Dependence Can WeTreat Away the Drug Problem? The Alcoholism and Chemical DependenceIndustry Spreading Diseases The Cure for Addiction.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The First Session with Substance Abusers
Book SynopsisIt is during the critical first session with substance abusers that clinicians have the first, and all too often the last, opportunity to break through the wall of denial and create an atmosphere of trust that is so crucial to changing behavior. Written by a father-daughter team of clinical psychologists, The First Session with Substance Abusers outlines a proven plan for conducting an initial session that can uncover substance abuse problems with clients no matter how resistant or manipulative they may be. Applying the methods outlined in this book, psychologists and health professionals can use the first session to assess and evaluate the depth and duration of the substance abuse problem and motivate the client to begin the most appropriate form of treatment.Trade Review"Therapists may have failed to detect underlying addictions because they had no compelling model for assessment and treatment. Cummings and Cummings illuminate this previously murky area and provide an easy-to-follow beacon for clinicians of all persuasions. My highest recommAndation." (Jeffrey K. Zeig, director, The Milton H. Erickson Foundation) "Full of insights and pearls of clinical wisdom. The Cummings' experience spans over five decades-they have seen trAnds come and go, and as a result they have rather solid information as to what truly works. Also, since a substantial number of clients seen in psychotherapy settings have substance abuse problems unknown to the therapist, the effective and modern clinician cannot afford not to have this book nearby." (J. Lawrence Thomas, neuropsychologist, New York University Medical Center, and author of Do You Have Attention Deficit Disorder?) "The First Session with Substance Abusers is a book built on the authors' combined 50 years of rich clinical experience. The father-daughter team of Drs. Nick and Janet Cummings have written a book full of practical suggestions, anecdotes, stories, and sage perceptions. For all of those working in the field of substance abuse treatment, this book provides a clear point of view and specific ideas about ways to carry out the challenging task of treating substance abuse." (Simon H. Budman, president, Innovative Training Systems, Inc., and assistant professor, Harvard Medical School and staff, Children's Hospital, Boston) "Drs. Cummings skillfully describe the biopsychosocial ramifications of substance abuse. Anyone who treats substance abusers but is not fully familiar with the facts that this book so eloquently documents is bound to bypass significant assessment-treatment processes-to the detriment of their patients and themselves." (Arnold A. Lazarus, distinguished professor emeritus of psychology, Rutgers University) "This book is a worthwhile addition to the book shelves of addiction counsellors and health professionals in general." (Addiction Today, September 2001)Table of ContentsForeword, Jeanne Albronda Heaton. Introduction. Who Is the Substance Abuser? Presenting Problems: Different Tugs from Different Drugs. Identifying the Problem in the First Session. Modalities of Treatment. Diagnostic and Treatment Considerations. Establishing the Therapeutic Alliance. Further Interviewing Strategies: The Games. The First Interview with the Enabler. Countertransference: Denial Is a Two-Way Street. Appendix. Suggested Readings. The Authors.
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Cornell University Press The Socioeconomic Dimensions of HIVAIDS in Africa
Book SynopsisSince the 1980s HIV/AIDS has occupied a singular position because of the rapidly emergent threat and devastation the disease has caused, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. New infections continue to create a formidable challenge to households, communities, and health systems: last year alone, 2.7 million new infections occurred globally. Sub-Saharan Africa remains the epicenter of the suffering, with around two-thirds of infected individuals worldwide found there, and a disproportionate number of deaths and new infections.For years there have been widespread and concerted efforts to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, identify a cure, and understand and mitigate the deleterious social and economic ramifications of the disease. Despite these efforts, and some apparent successes, there is still a long way to go in terms of altering behaviors in order to realize the objective of dramatic reductions in the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa. The authors in this volume examine the HIV/AIDSTable of ContentsIntroduction by David E. SahnChapter 1. HIV/AIDS, Economic Growth, Inequality By Markus HaackerChapter 2. Governing a World with HIV and AIDS: An Unfinished Success Story by Alex de WaalChapter 3. Microeconomic Perspectives on the Impacts of HIV/AIDS by Kathleen Beegle, Markus Goldstein, and Harsha ThirumurthyChapter 4. The AIDS Epidemic, Nutrition, Food Security, and Livelihoods: Review of Evidence in Africa by Suneetha Kadiyala and Antony ChapotoChapter 5. The Relationship between HIV Infection and Education: An Analysis of Six Sub-Saharan African Countries by Damien de Walque and Rachel KlineChapter 6. Back to Basics: Gender, Social Norms, and the AIDS Epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa by Susan Cotts WatkinsChapter 7. The Fight against AIDS in the Larger Context: The End of "AIDS Exceptionalism" by Roger EnglandChapter 8. Prevention Failure: The Ballooning Entitlement Burden of U.S. Global AIDS Treatment Spending and What to Do About It by Mead OverChapter 9. HIV Prevention in Africa: What Has Been Learned? by Peter GlickChapter 10. Treating Ourselves to Trouble? The Impact of HIV Treatment in Africa: Lessons from the Industrial World by Elizabeth Pisani
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MB - Cornell University Press The Viral Network
Book SynopsisIn The Viral Network, Theresa MacPhail examines our collective fascination with and fear of viruses through the lens of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. In April 2009, a novel strain of H1N1 influenza virus resulting from a combination of bird, swine, and human flu viruses emerged in Veracruz, Mexico. The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) announced an official end to the pandemic in August 2010. Experts agree that the global death toll reached 284,500. The public health response to the pandemic was complicated by the simultaneous economic crisis and by the public scrutiny of official response in an atmosphere of widespread connectivity. MacPhail follows the H1N1 influenza virus''s trajectory through time and space in order to construct a three-dimensional picture of what happens when global public health comes down with a case of the flu.The Viral Network affords a rare look inside the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, as well as Hong Kong's virology labs Trade ReviewThe author brings to light some very important issues associated with disease outbreaks that are worthy of dicsussion, and she offers a unique perspective on pandemic responses. Those with a particular interest in medical anthropology would likely enjoy this perspective. -- Sarah Bevins * BioScience *Table of ContentsPrologue to a Pathography1. Seeing the Past or Telling the Future?: On the Origins of Pandemics and the Phylogeny of Viral Expertise2. The Invisible Chapter (Work in the Lab)3. Quarantine, Epidemiological Knowledge, and Infectious Disease Research in Hong Kong4. The Siren's Song of Avian Influenza: A Brief History of Future Pandemics5. The Predictable Unpredictability of Viruses and the Concept of "Strategic Uncertainty"6. The Anthropology of Good Information: Data Deluge, Knowledge, and Context in Global Public Health7. The Heretics of Microbiology: Charisma, Expertise, Disbelief, and the Production of KnowledgeEpilogue Notes References
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University of Toronto Press Cannabis
Book SynopsisWith innovative scientific investigation and bold recommendations, this report, prefaced by Senator Nolin, is an indispensable tool in the national and international debate surrounding cannabis.
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University of Toronto Press Chasing Dragons
Book SynopsisChasing Dragons discusses avenues for resisting the insecurity produced by liberal states in the post-9/11 world. This critical approach reveals the pervasiveness of power in contemporary Canadian society, how this power is hidden, and the consequences for progressive social politics.
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MY - University of Toronto Press Jailed for Possession
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John Wiley & Sons In League Against King Alcohol Native American
Book SynopsisDrawing on the WCTU’s national records as well as state and regional organizational newspaper accounts and official state histories, historian Thomas John Lappas unearths the story of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in Indian country. His work reveals how Native American women embraced a type of social, economic, and political progress.
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University of Pennsylvania Press Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Addiction and Devotion performs valuable scholarly work by recovering a lost history of addiction, and illuminating a wide range of cultural attitudes both towards specific addictive practices and towards different forms of addiction as determined by the relationship of the addict to their object." * Renaissance and Reformation *"Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England simultaneously dismantles the modern, medical definition of addiction as pathology and expertly reconstructs an image of early modern addiction as a confluence between material and immaterial phenomena…[This book] will certainly appeal to scholars of Shakespearean drama looking for nuanced rebuttals of individual sovereignty in canonical plays. More broadly, it will speak to early modernists in search of the period’s potential for disrupting and recomposing historical teleologies. In this regard, Lemon’s book heartily deserves a glass raised in its honor." * Comitatus *"[Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England] succeeds in unfolding changing understandings of addiction, drawing attention to its forgotten links to devotion. Lemon amply demonstrates that addiction involved abandonment to something beyond oneself: God; the beloved; a community or cause; a substance… In prompting scholars to pay closer attention to the word’s implications, the work performs valuable service. Readers are unlikely to take the term or concept for granted in future." * Parergon *"Rebecca Lemon presents a compelling, richly substantiated treatment of early modern cultures of addiction that offers genuinely new perspectives. Charting the development of the modern sense of addiction while at the same time attending to its early modern senses as something laudable, even heroic, Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England is an important intervention." * Adam Smyth, University of Oxford *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction. Addiction in (Early) Modernity Chapter 1. Scholarly Addiction in Doctor Faustus Chapter 2. Addicted Love in Twelfth Night Chapter 3. Addicted Fellowship in Henry IV Chapter 4. Addiction and Possession in Othello Chapter 5. Addictive Pledging from Shakespeare and Jonson to Cavalier Verse Epilogue. Why Addiction? Notes Works Cited Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Before AIDS
Book SynopsisThe AIDS crisis of the 1980s looms large in recent histories of sexuality, medicine, and politics, and justly so—an unknown virus without a cure ravages an already persecuted minority, medical professionals are unprepared and sometimes unwilling to care for the sick, and a national health bureaucracy is slow to invest resources in finding a cure. Yet this widely accepted narrative, while accurate, creates the impression that the gay community lacked any capacity to address AIDS. In fact, as Katie Batza demonstrates in this path-breaking book, there was already a well-developed network of gay-health clinics in American cities when the epidemic struck, and these clinics served as the first responders to the disease. Before AIDS explores this heretofore unrecognized story, chronicling the development of a national gay health network by highlighting the origins of longstanding gay health institutions in Boston, Chicago, and Los Angeles, placing them in a larger political coTrade Review"[A] highly compelling, important book . . . Katie Batza's Before AIDS dramatically expands our portrait of the gay 1970s and of the relationships between gay liberation, the US state, and the politics of health. Through three case studies and a tightly argued, absorbingly written analysis, Batza shows that health activism was central to gay politics well before the beginning of the AIDS epidemic." * Journal of the History of Sexuality *"Before AIDS is the first book to chart the development of a national gay health network in the 1970s. Katie Batza's insightful and compelling analysis makes valuable contributions to the history of sexuality, LGBTQ studies, the history of medicine, and American political history." * Tamar Carroll, Rochester Institute of Technology *"Well-conceived, deftly argued, and based on an impressive range of primary materials, oral interviews, and a good command of the secondary literature, Before AIDS brings fresh light and perspective to the wider field of the history of sexuality in the United States." * Jonathan Bell, University College London *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Preface Introduction. Fighting Epidemics and Ignorance Chapter 1. Reimagining Gay Liberation Chapter 2. Beyond Gay Liberation Chapter 3. Gay Health Harnesses the State Chapter 4. Redefining Gay Health Chapter 5. The Gay Health Network Meets AIDS Epilogue. AIDS and the State Enmeshed Notes Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Age of Intoxication
Book SynopsisEating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. Tobacco cures cancer. Such beliefs circulated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, an era when the term drug encompassed everything from herbs and spices—like nutmeg, cinnamon, and chamomile—to such deadly poisons as lead, mercury, and arsenic. In The Age of Intoxication, Benjamin Breen offers a window into a time when drugs were not yet separated into categories—illicit and licit, recreational and medicinal, modern and traditional—and there was no barrier between the drug dealer and the pharmacist.Focusing on the Portuguese colonies in Brazil and Angola and on the imperial capital of Lisbon, Breen examines the process by which novel drugs were located, commodified, and consumed. He then turns his attention to the British Empire, arguing that it owed much of its success in this period to its usTrade Review"Everybody must get stoned: That's the great lesson of history, driven home by this elucidating survey . . . Breen makes a fine case for his title, which he suggests is more appropriate than the Age of Reason-and for reasons good and true . . . A provocative examination of the history of exploration as a quest for new and improved ways to change our minds." * Kirkus Reviews *"Analyzing psychoactive and medicinal substances together enables this elegantly and evocatively written book to challenge historical assumptions about drugs and more recent legal divisions between illicit and licit, recreational and medicinal . . . Breen's approach allows The Age of Intoxication to make significant contributions to the histories of science and empire, as well as cultural histories of difference making more broadly." * The William and Mary Quarterly *"The Age of Intoxication is extensively researched, full of fascinating details, and told in accessible, entertaining prose. With chapters drawing from Mesoamerica, Africa, Europe, and South Asia, it elucidates the far reaches of the Portuguese drug trade and the centrality of non-European actors...[T]he book tells a convincing story about the cultural construction of mind-altering substances across the early modern globe. It is a thoroughly enjoyable read and an important addition to the scholarship on early modern pharmaceuticals." * Isis *"This book effectively challenges the historical concept of 'The Age of Reason' to describe the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as instead 'The Age of Intoxication.' [A] provocative volume...Breen ultimately reconstructs the rise of drugs, both licit and illicit, and their entanglement with the rise of global capitalism and empire [and] illustrates how modern societies hold fears of certain drugs and not others. " * Journal of Modern History *"Nature gives us opium poppies and Cannabis sativa; culture turns them into overprescribed opioids and overcriminalized dime bags. In his important new book, Benjamin Breen argues that all decisions about intoxicants are judgments about cultural difference, with roots in the early modern imperialism that spun many drugs into global circulation in the first place. The Age of Intoxication is a lively, edifying, wholly convincing book." * Joyce Chaplin, author of Round About the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit *"The Age of Intoxication is a fascinating, important, and evocative look at early modern 'drugs'-widely redefined-and their roles in European expansion, medicine, pharmacy, and culture. Benjamin Breen has a striking historical range, tying together histories of the Portuguese and British empires, of the Americas, of Africa, and of South Asia. Combining archival and conceptual depth, the book reveals a connected world of unsung, often subaltern actors. Breen strongly suggests that contemporary distinctions between 'illicit' and 'licit' drug cultures are rooted in this crucial era of global encounters." * Paul Gootenberg, author of Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug *"Innovative, smart, accessible, and a pleasure to read, The Age of Intoxication is the first history of drugs as cultural products. In Benjamin Breen's hands, this history contains as many lessons about society as it does about modern science." * James Sweet, University of Wisconsin, Madison *"The Age of Intoxication is an incisive, vividly recounted analysis of two vast yet interwoven imperial histories, using individual life stories, plant itineraries, medical recipes, and mercantile networks to tell the stories of 'failed' drugs we do not normally include alongside more 'successful' commodities such as chocolate, coffee, and tobacco. In engaging prose and humorous asides, from Portuguese Angola to the wilds of Brazil, Java, and beyond, Benjamin Breen takes us on a colorful historical trip through the mind-altering passageways of the early modern world, leaving no stone (or hallucinogenic mushroom) unturned." * Neil Safier, The John Carter Brown Library *"The Age of Intoxication shows how greater attention to the ambiguities of drugs and their history significantly enriches our understanding of many key features of modernity including colonialism, globalization science, medicine, commerce, and consumption. Benjamin Breen makes a strong and impassioned case for why early modern history is relevant to current discussions and public debates regarding drugs in society and the global drug trade." * Matthew Crawford, Kent State University *Table of ContentsIntroduction. At the Statue of Adamastor Part I. Inventions of Drugs Chapter 1. Searching for Drugs: Inventing Quina in Seventeenth-Century Amazonia Chapter 2. Selling Drugs: Early Modern Apothecaries and the Limits of Commodification Chapter 3. Fetishizing Drugs: Feitiçaria, Healing, and Intoxication in West Central Africa Part II. Altered States Chapter 4. Occult Qualities: British Natural Philosophers and Portuguese Drugs Chapter 5. Uses of Intoxication in the Enlightenment Chapter 6. Three Ways of Looking at Opium Conclusion. Drug Pasts and Futures Notes Glossary Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£70.55
University of Pennsylvania Press Sustaining Life
Book SynopsisAn ethnographic account of the South African AIDS movement and activistsFrom the historical roots of AIDS activism in the struggle for African liberation to the everyday work of community education in Khayelitsha, Sustaining Life tells the story of how the rights-based South African AIDS movement successfully transformed public health institutions, enabled access to HIV/AIDS treatment, and sustained the lives of people living with the disease. Typical accounts of the South African epidemic have focused on the political conflict surrounding it, Theodore Powers observes, but have yet to examine the process by which the national HIV/AIDS treatment program achieved near-universal access.In Sustaining Life, Powers demonstrates the ways in which non-state actors, from caregivers to activists, worked within the state to transform policy and state-based institutions in order to improve health-based outcomes. He shows how advocates in the South African AIDS mTrade Review"Sustaining Life provides an excellent introduction to anyone interested in knowing more about how South African AIDS activists—primarily those working as part of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC)—developed its political campaign for demanding access to life-saving HIV treatment for all South Africans…a very clearly and engagingly written book." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Sustaining Life provides an ethnographic and historically grounded rendering of HIV/AIDS activism in South Africa that successfully led to near universal access to HIV/AIDS treatment. It is a tremendous contribution to the literature on the HIV/ AIDS crisis in Africa and it is a story that needs to be told." * James Pfeiffer, University of Washington *Table of ContentsPreface List of Abbreviations Introduction. People, Pathogens, and Power: Situating the South African HIV/AIDS Epidemic Chapter 1. Contact, Colonization, and Apartheid: South African Social Formations in Historical Perspective Chapter 2. The Political History of South African HIV/AIDS Activism Chapter 3. Occupying the State: HIV/AIDS Activism and the South African National AIDS Council Chapter 4. A Policy Redirected: Transnational Donor Capital and Treatment Access in the Western Cape Province Chapter 5. Community Health Activism, AIDS Dissidence, and Local HIV/AIDS Politics in Khayelitsha Chapter 6. People in the State: Activism, Access, and Transformation Afterword. After Treatment Access: An Epidemic Unresolved Notes References Index
£49.30
Rutgers University Press In Sickness and in Play Children Coping with
Book SynopsisFor children who live with a chronic illness, each day is filled with endless treatments, painful symptoms, confusion, and embarrassment. How can an eight-year old girl understand diabetes let alone explain to her schoolmates why she has to leave class to have her blood tested? How can the father of a child with asthma ever sleep soundly through the night with the fear that his son may suffocate in the next room.In In Sickness and in Play, Cindy Dell Clark tells the stories of children who suffer from two common illnesses that are often underestimated by those not directly touched by them—asthma and diabetes. She describes how play, humor, and other expressive methods, invented by the kids themselves, allow families to cope with the pain. Clark’s work is one of the few studies to focus on maladies that kids must learn to live with rather than die from. Her interviews with forty-six families give readers an understanding of how children comprehendTable of ContentsJuvenile diabetes Enduring childhood asthma Imaginal coping Children, culture and coping Appendix A: Freeing children's voices Appendix B: A primer for adults
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Rutgers University Press Community Organizing and Community Building for
Book SynopsisThis third edition offers new and more established ways to approach community building and organising, from collaborating with communities on assessment and issue selection to using the power of social media to enhance the effectiveness of such work. Numerous case studies ranging from childhood obesity to immigrant worker rights to health care reform are provided.Trade Review"Minkler has created a volume useful to practitioners and academics interested in working together to produce positive community change. This is a must-read for anyone interested in making a difference in their communities in socially just and equitable ways." -- Marc Zimmerman * professor at University of Michigan School of Public Health *“This is an important resource of great value for those studying public health, health education, social work, and theory-based program planning. Minkler's new text offers insightful overviews, case examples, and a rich appendix of tools.” -- Dr. Rima Rudd * Harvard School of Public Health *“Minkler has authority in her field and is known for sound scholarship. This is an obvious text for courses in health education and social work both at the graduate and undergraduate levels.” -- Dona Schneider * Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University *"The third edition of this comprehensive, excellent book is a welcome resource for public health professionals and social workers interested in the 'art and science' of organizing and building communities. A must read for health education students interested in community-related work. Highly recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations AcknowledgmentsPART ONEIntroduction 1. Introduction to Community Organizing and Community Building 2. Why Organize? Problems and Promise in the Inner CityPART TWOContextual Frameworks and Approaches 3. Improving Health through Community Organization and Community Building 4. Contrasting Organizing Approaches 5. Community Building PracticePART THREEBuilding Effective Partnerships and Anticipating and Addressing Ethical Challenges 6. Community, Community Development, and the Forming of Authentic Partnerships 7. Ethical Issues in Community Organizing and Capacity Building 8. Building Partnerships between Local Health Departments and CommunitiesPART FOURCommunity Assessment and Issue Selection 9. Community Health Assessment or Healthy Community Assessment 10. Mapping Community Capacity 11. Selecting and “Cutting” the IssuePART FIVECommunity Organizing and Community Building within and across Diverse Groups and Cultures 12. Education, Participation, and Capacity Building in Community Organizing with Women of Color 13. African American Barbershops and Beauty Salons 14. Popular Education, Participatory Research, and Community Organizing with Immigrant Restaurant Workers in San Francisco’s ChinatownPART SIXUsing the Arts and the Internet as Tools for Community Organizing and Community Building 15. Creating an Online Strategy to Enhance Effective Community Building and Organizing 16. Using the Arts and New Media in Community Organizing and Community BuildingPART SEVENBuilding, Maintaining, and Evaluating Effective Coalitions and Community Organizing Efforts 17. A Coalition Model for Community Action 18. Community Organizing for Obesity Prevention in Humboldt Park, Chicago 19. Participatory Approaches to Evaluating Community Organizing and Coalition BuildingPART EIGHTInfluencing Policy through Community Organizing and Media Advocacy 20. Using Community Organizing and Community Building to Influence Public Policy 21. Organizing for Health Care Reform 22. Media AdvocacyAppendixes 1. Principles of Community Building 2. Action-Oriented Community Diagnosis Procedure 3. Challenging Ourselves 4. A Ladder of Community Participation in Public Health 5. Coalition Member Assessment 6. Community Mapping and Digital Technology 7. Using Force Field and “SWOT” Analysis as Strategic Tools in Community Organizing 8. A Checklist for Action 9. Criteria for Creating Triggers or Codes for Freirian Organizing 10. Scale for Measuring Perceptions of Control at the Individual, Organizational, Neighborhood, and beyond-the-Neighborhood Levels 11. Policy Bingo About the Contributors Index
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John Wiley & Sons From Residency to Retirement Physicians Careers
Book SynopsisTells the stories of twenty American doctors over the last half century, which saw a period of continuous, turbulent and transformative changes to the US health care system. The cohort's experiences are reflective of the generation of physicians who came of age as Presidents Carter and Reagan began to focus on costs and benefits of health services.Trade Review"This is a wonderful, unique book because it spans almost forty years in the careers of a group of physicians. It deals with important questions about aspects of career satisfaction from interpersonal relationships to health care reform. As a physician still in clinical practice, whose career evolved during the same period covered by these interviews, the book evoked some deep reflection on my own career." -- Oliver Fein * Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University *"Drawing on in-depth interviews of physicians that span their 35-year careers, Terry Mizrahi provides a unique, insightful account of early, mid-, and late-stage achievements, frustrations, and challenges from the 1980s through the second decade of the 21st century. Well organized and clearly written, this book will interest families, professionals, sociologists, and educators." -- Donald W. Light * Author of Becoming Psychiatrists: the Professional Transformation of Self *"Mizrahi's compelling portrait of physicians' career trajectories speaks to the failure of American health policy. Buffeted by waves of policy changes that failed to address key problems, many practitioners ended their careers profoundly dissatisfied, lamenting encroachments on their autonomy and feeling less valued by society." -- Martin Shapiro * Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University *"From Residency to Retirement is a unique, engaging, and very personal study of a group of over twenty physicians. Mizrahi’s work, notable for its longitudinal depth, personal information, and relation to the enormity of changes in the medical profession over the period, includes the cohort's struggles, professional and personal, all in the context of patient care and practices during the study period. It is unique, well-written, important, and timely. I highly recommend it." -- Ira Mehlman * Medical Corps physician *“From the War on Poverty to Obamacare, health activist and scholar Terry Mizrahi explores the careers of a cohort of physicians trained together in internal medicine, as they navigated our continuously changing health system. Her powerful new insights shed important light on the very human dimensions of the practice of medicine during its dramatic transformation over the last forty years.” -- Hal Strelnick * professor of Family & Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine *"In this incredible followup to her now classic work, Getting Rid of Patients, Mizrahi has provided us an incredible gift: a 'follow-up' on this cohort as they navigated their own lives, and the vast changes in medical practice that have overtaken them. It should give every young student aspiring to be a physician pause, as they think about entering medicine as a profession. They may—or may not—know what they are getting into." -- David K. Rosner * author of Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children *"Mizrahi’s latest book can be read alone or as a wonderfully informative sequel to Getting Rid of Patients, her earlier exploration of the career journeys of White male physicians. From Residency to Retirement begins with many of these same men 40+ years later sharing their stories. Through these narratives we learn how, over these years, these doctors and the medical profession have endured and adapted to an ever-changing often tumultuous environment." -- Darlyne Bailey, Ph.D., LISW * Professor, Dean Emeritus, and Director, Social Justice Initiative; Graduate School of Social Work an *Table of Contents1 Introduction 2 Meet the Doctors: Career Choices in Their Own Voices 3 Satisfaction and Strains: The Ups and Downs of Being a Doctor, Part I (Early to Mid-Career) 4 Satisfaction and Strains: The Ups and Downs of Being a Doctor, Part II (Mid-Career to Retirement) 5 “Speaking of Their Own”: Relationships with Peers, Partners, and Protégés 6 Mistakes and Malpractice: The Bane of Physicians 7 The Physicians on Health Regulations, Reimbursement, and Reform 8 Vulnerability from Within: Hidden Revelations about Disillusionment, Cynicism, Fear of Failure, and Self-Doubt 9 The Personal and the Professional: The Interaction between Private Lives and Public Postures 10 Physicians’ Happiest and Unhappiest Times, and Their Wishes and Misses throughout Their Careers 11 Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£39.60
Rutgers University Press Nursing the Nation Building the Nurse Labor Force
Book SynopsisNursing the Nation explores how nurses became employees of hospital and care agencies rather than independent, individual contractors. It also demonstrates how nurses missed opportunities to control their own destinies in practice, but gained the ability to establish themselves as the most critical part of health care today.Trade Review"We have needed this superb historical analysis for a very long time. Jean Whelan, analyzing perennial nursing shortages, explains why the American health care system seems to always be in crisis. Whelan's elegantly written book intertwines the experiences of individual nurses with the institutions that supported, transformed, and undermined their work, and the sexism and racism that thwarted their efforts. With its focus on nurses as workers not just professionals, Nursing the Nation should be read and taught widely to explain the origins of contemporary dilemmas in American health care." -- Susan M. Reverby * author of Ordered to Care: the Dilemma of American Nursing *"This timely and important book fills a much needed gap in our understanding of how the modern nursing profession has developed. Whelan draws on extensive sources to demonstrate the ways that both race and gender have impacted the workforce and patient care. A must read." -- Kylie Smith * Talking Therapy: Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing *"Filled with 'aha! moments,' Nursing the Nation provides an interesting lens through which to explore and illuminate the early days of the nursing profession. In an illuminating discussion, Whelan traces historical roots explaining our relationships to each other as nurses, our students, our physician colleagues and the hospitals in which many of us work." -- Dr. Robert Atkins * Director of New Jersey Health Initiatives *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Have Cap Will Travel: How and Why Nurses Became Professionals Chapter 2: Starting Out: Organizing the Work and the Profession Chapter 3: Supplying Nurses: The Central Registry Business Chapter 4: Surpluses, Shortages and Segregation Chapter 5: Private Duty’s Golden Age Chapter 6: The Great Depression: Collapse, Resurrection, and Success Chapter 7: More and More (and Better) Nurses Chapter 8: Conclusion Bibliography
£26.09
Rutgers University Press Fault Lines of Care Gender HIV and Global Health
Book SynopsisHeckert provides a detailed examination of the effects of global health and governmental policy decisions on the everyday lives of people living with HIV in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. She focuses on the gendered dynamics that play a role in the development and implementation of HIV care programs and shows how decisions made from above impact what happens on the ground. Trade Review“Fault Lines of Care is a remarkable book of the type many of us strive for: a finely grained, moving ethnography that articulates the nature of the broad interactions among individual, community, state-level, and global dynamics in the domain of international HIV/AIDS care. Heckert is a lucid, evocative writer and frankly, I found the book hard to put down.” -- Carole H. Browner * coauthor of Neurogenetic Diagnoses, the Power of Hope, and the Limits of Today’s Medicine *“Carina Heckert’s evocative and wrenching ethnography, Fault Lines of Care, conveys the frustrating and at times deadly entanglements of global health agendas with the intimate lived experiences of people living with HIV/ AIDS in resource poor communities in Bolivia. Heckert invites readers on an emotionally-charged journey through her interlocutors’ intimate and social experiences of seeking care for HIV/AIDS and ultimately their struggles for survival. This ethnographically rich rendering is an important contribution to our understanding of how people’s experiences of chronic disease interact with the biopolitical contours of inequality and poverty, in Bolivia and globally.” -- Nia Parson * author of Traumatic States: Gendered Violence, Suffering, and Care in Chile *"Chronicle of Higher Education Weekly Book List," by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *"As a case study in global health strategy, [Bolivia] is a useful example because of the often unexpected ways in which local politics, societal structures, and culture interact to undermine efforts to combat the HIV epidemic." * The Lancet *"Heckert writes in an engaging and accessible style and clearly explains her theoretical approach to understanding her ethnographic data. She nicely balances her discussion of the historical, social, and political context of HIV care with case studies of HIV-positive people doing their best to navigate the healthcare system and make decisions about when and how to access care." * American Journal of Human Biology *"Comprehensive and impressively written." * The Latin Americanist *"Fault Lines of Care offers a thoughtful examination of an HIV epidemic....This book offers an excellent resource for undergraduate and graduate courses in medical anthropology and health sciences. It poses important questions for future researchers to consider, including why our stubborn reliance on metrics and disease-specific approaches to global health care persist." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *Table of Contents1. Fault Lines 2. Decolonizing Bolivia 3. When Care is a “Systematic Route of Torture” 4. Aiding Women 5. Synergistic Silences 6. Blaming Machismo 7. The Biopolitical Drama of HIV Funding 8. Decolonizing Global Health Bibliography Notes Index Acknowledgments
£32.40
Rutgers University Press Fault Lines of Care Gender HIV and Global Health
Book SynopsisHeckert provides a detailed examination of the effects of global health and governmental policy decisions on the everyday lives of people living with HIV in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. She focuses on the gendered dynamics that play a role in the development and implementation of HIV care programs and shows how decisions made from above impact what happens on the ground. Trade Review“Fault Lines of Care is a remarkable book of the type many of us strive for: a finely grained, moving ethnography that articulates the nature of the broad interactions among individual, community, state-level, and global dynamics in the domain of international HIV/AIDS care. Heckert is a lucid, evocative writer and frankly, I found the book hard to put down.” -- Carole H. Browner * coauthor of Neurogenetic Diagnoses, the Power of Hope, and the Limits of Today’s Medicine *“Carina Heckert’s evocative and wrenching ethnography, Fault Lines of Care, conveys the frustrating and at times deadly entanglements of global health agendas with the intimate lived experiences of people living with HIV/ AIDS in resource poor communities in Bolivia. Heckert invites readers on an emotionally-charged journey through her interlocutors’ intimate and social experiences of seeking care for HIV/AIDS and ultimately their struggles for survival. This ethnographically rich rendering is an important contribution to our understanding of how people’s experiences of chronic disease interact with the biopolitical contours of inequality and poverty, in Bolivia and globally.” -- Nia Parson * author of Traumatic States: Gendered Violence, Suffering, and Care in Chile *"Chronicle of Higher Education Weekly Book List," by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *"As a case study in global health strategy, [Bolivia] is a useful example because of the often unexpected ways in which local politics, societal structures, and culture interact to undermine efforts to combat the HIV epidemic." * The Lancet *"Heckert writes in an engaging and accessible style and clearly explains her theoretical approach to understanding her ethnographic data. She nicely balances her discussion of the historical, social, and political context of HIV care with case studies of HIV-positive people doing their best to navigate the healthcare system and make decisions about when and how to access care." * American Journal of Human Biology *"Comprehensive and impressively written." * The Latin Americanist *"Fault Lines of Care offers a thoughtful examination of an HIV epidemic....This book offers an excellent resource for undergraduate and graduate courses in medical anthropology and health sciences. It poses important questions for future researchers to consider, including why our stubborn reliance on metrics and disease-specific approaches to global health care persist." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *Table of Contents1. Fault Lines 2. Decolonizing Bolivia 3. When Care is a “Systematic Route of Torture” 4. Aiding Women 5. Synergistic Silences 6. Blaming Machismo 7. The Biopolitical Drama of HIV Funding 8. Decolonizing Global Health Bibliography Notes Index Acknowledgments
£105.40
Rutgers University Press When the Air Became Important A Social History
Book SynopsisJanet Greenlees examines the working environments of the heartlands of the British and American cotton textile industries from the nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. She contends that the air quality within these pioneering workplaces was a key contributor to the health of the wider communities of which they were a part.Trade Review"This is a promising, important, and long-awaited project—the first comparative history of industry-related hazards in the United States and Britain. The author has synthesized a vast body of research, much of it her own original work. At once comprehensive and selective, When the Air Became Important is illuminating scholarship." -- Chris Sellers * Stony Brook University *"In this truly comparative social and environmental history of air pollution, Greenlees deftly weaves public health, regulatory politics and labor relations into a prescient reminder that protecting workers from hazardous workplaces remains a pressing issue on a global scale." -- Graham Mooney * Johns Hopkins University, and author of Instrusive Interventions: Public Health, Domestic Space, and *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations List of Tables List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction – When does the air in the workplace become important? 2 Textile town and mill environments 3 Tuberculosis in the factory 4 “I used to feel ill with it:” Heat, humidity and fatigue 5 Dust: A New Socio-Environmental Relationship 6 “The noise were horrendous:” The ignored industrial hazard 7 Conclusion: When does the air become important? Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index
£40.50
Rutgers University Press Children as Caregivers The Global Fight against
Book SynopsisIn Zambia, due to the rise of TB and the connected HIV epidemic, a large number of children have experienced the illness or death of at least one parent. This study examines how well intentioned practitioners fail to realise that children take on active caregiving roles when their guardians become seriously ill and demonstrates why understanding children's care is crucial for global health policy.Trade Review"Hunleth presents a moving, yet clear-eyed, account of children's hitherto unacknowledged caregiving in the tuberculosis and HIV epidemic. Children as Caregivers is a spectacular demonstration of the vital importance of detailed ethnography for policy development." -- Anthony Simpson * author of Boys to Men in the Shadow of AIDS: Masculinities and HIV Risk in Zambia *"Children as Caregivers offers a very interesting insight on how discourses on prevention, care, and welfare in the context of infectious diseases should not ignore the specific contribution provided by children." * The Lancet *"Children as Caregivers is a rare and timely ethnographic study of childhood and illness. Readers interested in expanding their knowledge of critical global health, infectious disease, and kinship politics will find tremendous value in this book. As a testament to ethnography’s value in the social sciences, Children as Caregivers provides researchers with new, creative methods on how to capture children’s voices and experiences, in all their complexity." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Children's Carework in a Global Pandemic: Anthropology of Childhood and Infectious Disease" interview with Jean Hunleth https://culanth.org/fieldsights/childrens-carework-in-a-global-pandemic-anthropology-of-childhood-and-infectious-disease * AnthroPod *"Hunleth presents a moving, yet clear-eyed, account of children's hitherto unacknowledged caregiving in the tuberculosis and HIV epidemic. Children as Caregivers is a spectacular demonstration of the vital importance of detailed ethnography for policy development." -- Anthony Simpson * author of Boys to Men in the Shadow of AIDS: Masculinities and HIV Risk in Zambia *"Children as Caregivers offers a very interesting insight on how discourses on prevention, care, and welfare in the context of infectious diseases should not ignore the specific contribution provided by children." * The Lancet *"Children as Caregivers is a rare and timely ethnographic study of childhood and illness. Readers interested in expanding their knowledge of critical global health, infectious disease, and kinship politics will find tremendous value in this book. As a testament to ethnography’s value in the social sciences, Children as Caregivers provides researchers with new, creative methods on how to capture children’s voices and experiences, in all their complexity." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Children's Carework in a Global Pandemic: Anthropology of Childhood and Infectious Disease" interview with Jean Hunleth https://culanth.org/fieldsights/childrens-carework-in-a-global-pandemic-anthropology-of-childhood-and-infectious-disease * AnthroPod *Table of Contents Introduction 1. Growing Up in George 2. Residence and Relationships 3. Between Silence and Disclosure 4. Following the Medicine 5. Care by Women and Children 6. Children and Global Health Postscript: Childhood Tuberculosis Notes References Index
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Rutgers University Press Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin
Book SynopsisTransnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work documents the social and emotional contributions of older persons to their families in settings shaped by migration, their everyday lives in domestic and community spaces, and in the context of intergenerational relationships and diasporas. Trade Review"These thought-provoking, poetic, critical, nuanced, heartbreaking, and diverse accounts of older people's complex roles in transnational 'kin-work' provide an important and understudied contribution to the wider field of Aging Studies." -- Annette Leibing * professor of medical anthropology at the Université de Montréal *“This book is bursting with engaging ethnographic and theoretical contributions from across the world and life course. It’s indisputable: aging and kin-work are critical frames for understanding transnational connections, disruptions, and meaning-making in today’s precarious global economy.” -- Caitrin Lynch * author of Retirement on the Line: Age, Work, and Value in an American Factory *"An indispensable contribution to research on transnationalism, family relations and aging and a must read for anyone working on these topics. Apart from providing various ethnographic writings from different authors that describe their findings nuanced and rich in detail, the book enables the reader to gain new perspectives into the lives of aging migrants." * Anthropology News *"Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work reminds us of the importance of kinship studies in anthropology, making visible the notion of 'kin work,' that hitherto remained underexplored in transnational and aging studies....An essential and accessible book for academics in the social, human, and public policy sciences, as well as for any researcher or student who seeks to deepen their insights into the everyday processes of aging and care in transnational contexts." * Anthropology & Aging *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin WorkParin Dossa and Cati Coe Part One: The Kin-scription of Older People into Care1. Flexible Kin Work, Flexible Migration: Aging Migrants Caught between Productive and Reproductive Labor in the European UnionNeda Deneva2. The New Aging Trajectories of Chinese Grandparents in CanadaYanqiu Rachel Zhou3. Sacrifice or Abandonment? Nicaraguan Grandmothers’ Narratives of Migration as Kin WorkKristin Elizabeth Yarris Part Two: Reconfigurations of Kinship and Care in Migration Contexts4. Fostering Change: Elderly Foster Mothers’ Intergenerational Influence in Contemporary ChinaErin L. Raffety5. Negotiating Sacred Values: Dharma, Karma, and Migrant Hindu WomenMushira Mohsin Khan and Karen Kobayashi6. Transformations in Transnational Aging: A Century of Caring among Italians in AustraliaLoretta Baldassar Part Three: Aging, Kin Work, and Migrant Trajectories7. Returning Home: The Retirement Strategies of Aging Ghanaian Care WorkersCati Coe8. Balancing the Weight of Nations and Families Transnationally: The Case of Older Caribbean Canadian WomenDelores V. Mullings9. The Recognition and Denial of Kin Work in Palliative Care: Epitomizing Narratives of Canadian Ismaili MuslimsParin Dossa ReferencesAbout the ContributorsIndex
£28.80
Rutgers University Press Pyrrhic Progress The History of Antibiotics in
Book SynopsisMass-introduced after 1945, antibiotics helped revolutionize post-war agriculture, but food producers soon became dependent on routine antibiotic use to sustain and increase production. Pyrrhic Progress analyses over half a century of antibiotic use, regulation, and resistance in US and British food production.Trade Review"This is a great book! Essential reading for anyone concerned about the rise in antibiotics and resistance: Kirchhelle’s carefully researched text reveals the back-stories of antibiotics and farming.” -- Clare Chandler * Professor in Medical Anthropology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine *"Kirchhelle reveals both the local contexts and the global consequences of the historical relationship between antibiotics and food production. Beautifully written and exhaustively researched, this is a crucial work for understanding how we evaluate and react to 'risks' more broadly." -- Scott Podolsky * Harvard Medical School, author of The Antibiotic Era: Reform, Resistance, and the Pursuit of a Ratio *"Pyrrhic Progress is an excellent work of scholarship that makes important, path-breaking contributions to the history of agriculture, pharmaceuticals, politics, and policymaking in the United States and Britain in the post-World War II era. The connection between guarding against and preparing for antimicrobial resistance and climate change is fantastic, and no other work has examined these important issues as exhaustively." -- Kendra Smith-Howard * author of Pure and Modern Milk: An Environmental History since 1900 *"Antibiotics fueled a great leap forward in food production in the twentieth century, but the price of that progress in terms of potential drug resistant infections was known from the start. This timely historical analysis shows us why previous warnings went unheeded and, in the current climate of concern over a post-antibiotic future, how a history of public discourse can provide salient lessons for one this century’s most pressing issues." -- Steve Hinchliffe * University of Exeter, author of Pathological Lives *"A thorough, critical review of the use of antimicrobials in the US and British agricultural industries since the turn of the 20th century, examining the effects on production volume and quality from the perspective of three spheres of interest: agricultural. regulatory, and public....Highly recommended." * Choice *"Provides a much-needed and painstakingly researched history of the nonhuman use of antibiotics in live‐ stock production and the professional turf wars and policy debates that have followed their use in farming since the 1940s....Pyrrhic Progress adds to a growing literature on the chemical revolution that has trans‐ formed modern agriculture and the environment more broadly. It adds to a vibrant literature on animal studies which is bringing down conceptual walls that falsely divide the history of humans from that of other animals." * H-Net *"This is an impressive, well-researched, and crucial contribution to the histories of science, technology, medicine, agriculture and policymaking. In the context of our current moment, it helps illuminate the importance and cultural specificity of risk communication work in the wake of both accelerated and slow building health crises." * The English Historical Review *"Provides crucial insight into the historical complexity of risk regimes and their consequences with regard to antibiotic use in livestock farming." * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *"With Pyrrhic Progress, Kirchhelle is delivering on its promise to provide the first detailed, and often thrilling, historiographical analysis of the use of antibiotics in animal health. If we may be surprised at the choice of leaving aside international organizations - the three 'sisters' that are the WHO (World Health Organization), the FAO and the OIE (Word organization for animal health) having played an important role - this absence ultimately opens up new horizons for social scientists interested in veterinary antibiotics and AMR. For them, as for those involved in the field more generally, this book promises to become an essential reference." * Études Rurales *“The meticulous work done by Kirchhelle is certainly commendable: the book stimulates the reader imagination for developing further stories and historical investigations of farmed antibiotics that would be more-than-Western, more-than-elitist and more-than-human.” -- Camille Bellet * Agricultural History Review *“Detailed, ambitious, and enormously capable of explaining the economic, political, industrial, and agricultural cultures relevant to the use of antibiotics in the production of animals for human consumption. Kirchhelle's book is very useful [and] a very interesting contribution on the trajectory of consumer society.” -- María Jesús Santesmases * Dynamis *"Kirchhelle’s study achieves a considerable and important feat, adding an innovative comprehensive framework, which integrates the production and perception of risks across human and animal medicine as well as across two key countries, to the historiography of antibiotics, technological consequences, and risks." -- Lucas M. Mueller * Technology and Culture *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations 1. The Sound of Coughing PigsPart I. USA: From Industrialized Agriculture to Manufactured Hazards, 1949-1967 2. Picking One's Poisons: Antibiotics and the Public 3. Chemical Cornucopia: Antibiotics on the Farm 4. Toxic Priorities: ANtibiotics and the FDAPart II. Britain: From Rationing to Gluttony, 1945-1969 5. Fusing Concerns: Antibiotics and the British Public 6. Bigger, Better, Faster: Antibiotics and British Farming 7. Typing Resistence: Antibiotic Regulation in BritainPart III. USA: The Problem of Plenty, 1967-2013 8. Marketplace Environmentalism: Antibiotics, Public Concerns, and Consumer Solutions 9. Light-Green Reform: Antibiotic Change on American Farms 10. Statutory Defeat: Voluntarism and the Limits of FDA PowerPart IV Britain: From Gluttony to Fear, 1970-2018 11. Between Swann Patriotism and BSE: Antibiotics in the Public Sphere 12. Persistent Infrastructures: Antibiotic Reform and British Farming 13. Swann Song: British Antibiotic Policy After 1969 Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Pyrrhic Progress The History of Antibiotics in
Book SynopsisMass-introduced after 1945, antibiotics helped revolutionize post-war agriculture, but food producers soon became dependent on routine antibiotic use to sustain and increase production. Pyrrhic Progress analyses over half a century of antibiotic use, regulation, and resistance in US and British food production.Trade Review"This is a great book! Essential reading for anyone concerned about the rise in antibiotics and resistance: Kirchhelle’s carefully researched text reveals the back-stories of antibiotics and farming.” -- Clare Chandler * Professor in Medical Anthropology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine *"Kirchhelle reveals both the local contexts and the global consequences of the historical relationship between antibiotics and food production. Beautifully written and exhaustively researched, this is a crucial work for understanding how we evaluate and react to 'risks' more broadly." -- Scott Podolsky * Harvard Medical School, author of The Antibiotic Era: Reform, Resistance, and the Pursuit of a Ratio *"Pyrrhic Progress is an excellent work of scholarship that makes important, path-breaking contributions to the history of agriculture, pharmaceuticals, politics, and policymaking in the United States and Britain in the post-World War II era. The connection between guarding against and preparing for antimicrobial resistance and climate change is fantastic, and no other work has examined these important issues as exhaustively." -- Kendra Smith-Howard * author of Pure and Modern Milk: An Environmental History since 1900 *"Antibiotics fueled a great leap forward in food production in the twentieth century, but the price of that progress in terms of potential drug resistant infections was known from the start. This timely historical analysis shows us why previous warnings went unheeded and, in the current climate of concern over a post-antibiotic future, how a history of public discourse can provide salient lessons for one this century’s most pressing issues." -- Steve Hinchliffe * University of Exeter, author of Pathological Lives *"A thorough, critical review of the use of antimicrobials in the US and British agricultural industries since the turn of the 20th century, examining the effects on production volume and quality from the perspective of three spheres of interest: agricultural. regulatory, and public....Highly recommended." * Choice *"Provides a much-needed and painstakingly researched history of the nonhuman use of antibiotics in live‐ stock production and the professional turf wars and policy debates that have followed their use in farming since the 1940s....Pyrrhic Progress adds to a growing literature on the chemical revolution that has trans‐ formed modern agriculture and the environment more broadly. It adds to a vibrant literature on animal studies which is bringing down conceptual walls that falsely divide the history of humans from that of other animals." * H-Net *"This is an impressive, well-researched, and crucial contribution to the histories of science, technology, medicine, agriculture and policymaking. In the context of our current moment, it helps illuminate the importance and cultural specificity of risk communication work in the wake of both accelerated and slow building health crises." * The English Historical Review *"Provides crucial insight into the historical complexity of risk regimes and their consequences with regard to antibiotic use in livestock farming." * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *"With Pyrrhic Progress, Kirchhelle is delivering on its promise to provide the first detailed, and often thrilling, historiographical analysis of the use of antibiotics in animal health. If we may be surprised at the choice of leaving aside international organizations - the three 'sisters' that are the WHO (World Health Organization), the FAO and the OIE (Word organization for animal health) having played an important role - this absence ultimately opens up new horizons for social scientists interested in veterinary antibiotics and AMR. For them, as for those involved in the field more generally, this book promises to become an essential reference." * Études Rurales *“The meticulous work done by Kirchhelle is certainly commendable: the book stimulates the reader imagination for developing further stories and historical investigations of farmed antibiotics that would be more-than-Western, more-than-elitist and more-than-human.” -- Camille Bellet * Agricultural History Review *“Detailed, ambitious, and enormously capable of explaining the economic, political, industrial, and agricultural cultures relevant to the use of antibiotics in the production of animals for human consumption. Kirchhelle's book is very useful [and] a very interesting contribution on the trajectory of consumer society.” -- María Jesús Santesmases * Dynamis *"Kirchhelle’s study achieves a considerable and important feat, adding an innovative comprehensive framework, which integrates the production and perception of risks across human and animal medicine as well as across two key countries, to the historiography of antibiotics, technological consequences, and risks." -- Lucas M. Mueller * Technology and Culture *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations 1. The Sound of Coughing PigsPart I. USA: From Industrialized Agriculture to Manufactured Hazards, 1949-1967 2. Picking One's Poisons: Antibiotics and the Public 3. Chemical Cornucopia: Antibiotics on the Farm 4. Toxic Priorities: ANtibiotics and the FDAPart II. Britain: From Rationing to Gluttony, 1945-1969 5. Fusing Concerns: Antibiotics and the British Public 6. Bigger, Better, Faster: Antibiotics and British Farming 7. Typing Resistence: Antibiotic Regulation in BritainPart III. USA: The Problem of Plenty, 1967-2013 8. Marketplace Environmentalism: Antibiotics, Public Concerns, and Consumer Solutions 9. Light-Green Reform: Antibiotic Change on American Farms 10. Statutory Defeat: Voluntarism and the Limits of FDA PowerPart IV Britain: From Gluttony to Fear, 1970-2018 11. Between Swann Patriotism and BSE: Antibiotics in the Public Sphere 12. Persistent Infrastructures: Antibiotic Reform and British Farming 13. Swann Song: British Antibiotic Policy After 1969 Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Watching Our Weights The Contradictions of
Book SynopsisWatching Our Weights explores the competing and contradictory fat representations on television that are related to weight-loss and health, medicalization and disease, and body positivity and fat acceptance. Melissa Zimdars establishes how television shapes our knowledge of fatness and how fatness helps us better understand contemporary television. Trade Review"Well-written and enjoyable to read, Watching Our Weights evaluates the various ways that fatness is portrayed on television. It will make an important contribution to popular culture studies in general and television studies specifically." -- Esther Rothblum * coeditor of The Fat Studies Reader *"Zimdars offers a gripping analysis of fat TV as a site for contesting meanings of health, fatness, and embodiment. Her examination of global trends in televising fatness is meticulously researched." -- Kathleen A. LeBesco * author of Revolting Bodies?: The Struggle to Redefine Fat Identity *"Well-written and enjoyable to read, Watching Our Weights evaluates the various ways that fatness is portrayed on television. It will make an important contribution to popular culture studies in general and television studies specifically." -- Esther Rothblum * coeditor of The Fat Studies Reader *"Zimdars offers a gripping analysis of fat TV as a site for contesting meanings of health, fatness, and embodiment. Her examination of global trends in televising fatness is meticulously researched." -- Kathleen A. LeBesco * author of Revolting Bodies?: The Struggle to Redefine Fat Identity *Table of ContentsContents 1 Televising Fatness 2 Competing Understandings of Fatness 3 Does TV Make You Fat?: Television as Causing and Solving the “Obesity Epidemic” 4 The Globesity Epidemic: Adapting Weight-Loss Television Around the World 5 Exercising Control and the Illogics of Weight-Loss Television 6 Spectacle, Sympathy, and the Medicalized Disease of “Obesity” 7 Celebrating Large Bodies on the Small Screen: From Fat Visibility to Fat Acceptance 8 The Decline of The Biggest Loser Acknowledgments Index
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Rutgers University Press Pathogenic Policing Immigration Enforcement and
Book SynopsisIn Pathogenic Policing, Nolan Kline focuses on the hidden, health-related impacts of immigrant policing to examine the role of policy in shaping health inequality in the U.S., and responds to fundamental questions regarding biopolitics, especially the ways in which policy can reinforce ‘race’ as a vehicle of social division.Trade Review“Pathogenic Policing tells an important story that we all need to hear. The pipeline from local policing to deportation does not just remove unauthorized immigrants for petty traffic offenses. It frightens them, their families, and neighborhoods—indeed, this is a major cause of family separation—leading to self-denial of needed health care, a serious burden on communities. Kline’s explanation of these connections is clear, well-supported, and passionate; this is a vital book.” -- Josiah Heyman * co-editor of The U.S.-Mexico Transborder Region: Cultural Dynamics and Historical Interactions *“Attrition through enforcement has become the dominant response to the presence of unauthorized immigrants in the United States. Nolan Kline, through careful ethnographic exploration of the situation in Georgia, reveals the many negative impacts of this approach, not just on immigrants, but on American society as a whole. Told from the first-hand perspective of a participant observer, this book is a cri de coeur.” -- Doris Marie Provine * co-author of Policing Immigrants: Local Law Enforcement on the Front Lines *"This ethnography compels us to pay close attention to the multiple layers of immigration enforcement that mark the current moment, to recognize how policing reaches beyond any one encounter, and to consider what forms of community we hope to foster. Kline reveals how policing directly threatens the health and well-being of immigrants and their loved ones, and, in the end, erodes rights for all." -- Deborah A. Boehm * author of Returned: Going and Coming in an Age of Deportation *"Recommended." * Choice *Cohesively argued and well-written, Pathogenic Policing will make a valuable addition to courses in medical anthropology, public health, and migration, among others. More broadly, its timely lessons on the public health consequences of racist policing have important implications for anti-racist social movements and public policy alike. As the controversial relationship between policing and public safety (or endangerment) commands international attention, Pathogenic Policing advances a prescient and robustly evidenced argument for the incompatibility of racist law enforcement and community well-being." * Journal of Latin and American and Caribbean Anthropology *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Introduction: “They Will Stop You” How Did We Get Here? Immigrant Policing in the United States Inside the Statehouse: Legislators’ Perspectives on Georgia’s Immigration Laws “We Live Here in Fear:” Policing, Trauma, and a Shadow Medical System Immigrant Policing and Interpersonal Relationships “A Death by a Thousand Little Cuts:” Health Providers and Immigrant Policing Patient Dumping, Immigrant Policing, and Health Policy “Stand Up, Fight Back!” Notes Bibliography Index
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John Wiley & Sons Pathogenic Policing Immigration Enforcement and Health in the US South Medical Anthropology
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Rutgers University Press Cultural Anxieties Managing Migrant Suffering in
Book SynopsisA gripping ethnography about Centre Minkowska, a transcultural psychiatry clinic in Paris, France. From her unique position as both observer and staff member, anthropologist Stéphanie Larchanché explores the challenges of providing non-stigmatizing mental healthcare to migrants.Trade Review"Cultural Anxieties provides rich food for thought on a range of topics, but its greatest contribution lies in the book’s nuanced analysis of the distinctive approach to “cultural competence” undergirding Centre Minkowska’s work. A timely, fascinating, and vitally important ethnography that elegantly captures the heart of Centre Minkowska’s ethos as well as its distinct approach to cultural competence."— EuropeNow “Stéphanie Larchanché’s Cultural Anxieties is a timely and compelling account not only of contemporary French politics of mental health, difference, and migration, but also of a broad and pervasive sense of anxious living which informs and shape the institutional practices of care and cure in many Western liberal democracies. Larchanché is particularly well positioned – both as a medical anthropologist and as a therapist – to reflect upon the work of anxiety within and outside clinical settings, providing an important ethnography of the contemporary.” — Cristiana Giordano, author of Migrants in Translation: Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy "Cultural Anxieties offers a nuanced, thoughtful and engaged anthropological look at the management of cultural difference in a country where universalism is the national ideology. Taking the transcultural psychiatry clinic as a laboratory and a site of contestation, Larchanché refuses easy critiques, instead drawing attention to the difficult work of everyday care, and how it can build a politics of hospitality in the face of racism, injustice and inequality." — Miriam Ticktin, author of Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in FranceTable of ContentsForeword by Lenore Manderson List of Abbreviations / Glossary Introduction: Cultural Anxieties A Day at Centre Minkowska Part I The Context 1 A Genealogy of “Migrant Suffering” 2 Transcultural Practice at Centre Minkowska Part II Referral Narratives and Ethical Double-Binds 3 Cultural and Linguistic Difference as Obstacles to Care 4 Managing “Migrant Youth” Part III Ethical Deliberations 5 Enacting Cultural Competence 6 Psychotherapy at the Borderland 7 Beyond Anxieties: Praxis Conclusion Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Cultural Anxieties
Book SynopsisCultural Anxieties is a compelling ethnography about Centre Minkowska, a transcultural psychiatry clinic in Paris, France. From her unique position as both observer and staff member, Stéphanie Larchanché explores the challenges of providing non-stigmatizing mental healthcare to migrants, and she identifies practical routes for improving caregiving practices.Trade Review“Stéphanie Larchanché’s Cultural Anxieties is a timely and compelling account not only of contemporary French politics of mental health, difference, and migration, but also of a broad and pervasive sense of anxious living which informs and shape the institutional practices of care and cure in many Western liberal democracies. Larchanché is particularly well positioned – both as a medical anthropologist and as a therapist – to reflect upon the work of anxiety within and outside clinical settings, providing an important ethnography of the contemporary.” -- Cristiana Giordano * author of Migrants in Translation: Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy *"Cultural Anxieties offers a nuanced, thoughtful and engaged anthropological look at the management of cultural difference in a country where universalism is the national ideology. Taking the transcultural psychiatry clinic as a laboratory and a site of contestation, Larchanché refuses easy critiques, instead drawing attention to the difficult work of everyday care, and how it can build a politics of hospitality in the face of racism, injustice and inequality." -- Miriam Ticktin * author of Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France *"Cultural Anxieties provides rich food for thought on a range of topics, but its greatest contribution lies in the book’s nuanced analysis of the distinctive approach to “cultural competence” undergirding Centre Minkowska’s work. A timely, fascinating, and vitally important ethnography that elegantly captures the heart of Centre Minkowska’s ethos as well as its distinct approach to cultural competence." * EuropeNow *“Stéphanie Larchanché’s Cultural Anxieties is a timely and compelling account not only of contemporary French politics of mental health, difference, and migration, but also of a broad and pervasive sense of anxious living which informs and shape the institutional practices of care and cure in many Western liberal democracies. Larchanché is particularly well positioned – both as a medical anthropologist and as a therapist – to reflect upon the work of anxiety within and outside clinical settings, providing an important ethnography of the contemporary.” -- Cristiana Giordano * author of Migrants in Translation: Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy *"Cultural Anxieties offers a nuanced, thoughtful and engaged anthropological look at the management of cultural difference in a country where universalism is the national ideology. Taking the transcultural psychiatry clinic as a laboratory and a site of contestation, Larchanché refuses easy critiques, instead drawing attention to the difficult work of everyday care, and how it can build a politics of hospitality in the face of racism, injustice and inequality." -- Miriam Ticktin * author of Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France *"Cultural Anxieties provides rich food for thought on a range of topics, but its greatest contribution lies in the book’s nuanced analysis of the distinctive approach to “cultural competence” undergirding Centre Minkowska’s work. A timely, fascinating, and vitally important ethnography that elegantly captures the heart of Centre Minkowska’s ethos as well as its distinct approach to cultural competence." * EuropeNow *Table of ContentsForeword by Lenore Manderson List of Abbreviations / Glossary Introduction: Cultural Anxieties A Day at Centre Minkowska Part I The Context 1 A Genealogy of “Migrant Suffering” 2 Transcultural Practice at Centre Minkowska Part II Referral Narratives and Ethical Double-Binds 3 Cultural and Linguistic Difference as Obstacles to Care 4 Managing “Migrant Youth” Part III Ethical Deliberations 5 Enacting Cultural Competence 6 Psychotherapy at the Borderland 7 Beyond Anxieties: Praxis Conclusion Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Medicine over Mind Mental Health Practice in the
Book SynopsisIn an era in which the medicalization of mental health troubles and treatment has been settled for several decades, little is known about how this biomedical framework affects practitioners’ experiences. This book explores how practitioners make sense of a field that has shifted rapidly in just a few decades.Trade Review"This is a compelling project. Too often sociologists assume that the blueprint laid out by the DSM is equivalent to practice. This colors our discussions of medicalization in general, perhaps leading us to overstate its reach and breadth and obscuring the ways it is negotiated in practice. By delving more deeply into these practices – and the reasoning behind them – Smith’s research has great potential to bring nuance to the discussion of medicalization. The book wants to go beneath our general discussions of medicalization to see how it plays out in practice. Through a comparison of three groups of clinicians, she reveals the distinct dilemmas clinicians face, as well as their responses to the prevailing paradigm in practice. These play out in often unanticipated ways." -- Owen Whooley * author of Knowledge in the Time of Cholera: The Struggle over American Medicine in the Nineteenth Ce *"Dena Smith provides us with an analysis of the medicalization of mental disorder, and its impact on the conceptions and treatments in psychiatry. Basing her work on 43 interviews with mental health professionals, Smith provides new insights on the role of medicalized perspectives on psychiatric work.” -- Peter Conrad * Brandeis University *"Highly recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsFrom meaning-making to medicalization Practitioner portraits and pathways to practice The promise of 'imperfect communication' and the 'prison' of rigid categorization : the DSM in practice Etiological considerations and the tools of the trade : the role of medication and talk therapy in practice The consequences of the biomedical model for practice and practitioners : psychodynamic therapy in a biomedical world Conclusion : the dangling conversation : ambiguity in mental health practice
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Rutgers University Press Medicine over Mind Mental Health Practice in the
Book SynopsisUsing interviews with forty-three practitioners in the New York City area, this book offers insight into how the medical model maintains its dominant role in mental health treatment. Smith explores how practitioners grapple with available treatment models, and make sense of a field that has shifted rapidly in just a few decades.Trade Review"This is a compelling project. Too often sociologists assume that the blueprint laid out by the DSM is equivalent to practice. This colors our discussions of medicalization in general, perhaps leading us to overstate its reach and breadth and obscuring the ways it is negotiated in practice. By delving more deeply into these practices – and the reasoning behind them – Smith’s research has great potential to bring nuance to the discussion of medicalization. The book wants to go beneath our general discussions of medicalization to see how it plays out in practice. Through a comparison of three groups of clinicians, she reveals the distinct dilemmas clinicians face, as well as their responses to the prevailing paradigm in practice. These play out in often unanticipated ways." — Owen Whooley, author of Knowledge in the Time of Cholera: The Struggle over American Medicine in the Nineteenth Ce "Highly recommended."— Choice "Dena Smith provides us with an analysis of the medicalization of mental disorder, and its impact on the conceptions and treatments in psychiatry. Basing her work on 43 interviews with mental health professionals, Smith provides new insights on the role of medicalized perspectives on psychiatric work.” — Peter Conrad, Brandeis UniversityTable of ContentsFrom meaning-making to medicalization Practitioner portraits and pathways to practice The promise of 'imperfect communication' and the 'prison' of rigid categorization : the DSM in practice Etiological considerations and the tools of the trade : the role of medication and talk therapy in practice The consequences of the biomedical model for practice and practitioners : psychodynamic therapy in a biomedical world Conclusion : the dangling conversation : ambiguity in mental health practice
£105.40
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Sobering Wisdom
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Reading Trauma Narratives The Contemporary Novel
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Reading Trauma Narratives is a perceptive, timely, and challenging work."" —J. Brooks Bouson, Loyola University of Chicago
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Topography of Wellness How Health and
Book SynopsisOffers a chronological narrative of how six epidemics transformed the American urban landscape, reflecting changing views of the power of design, pathology of disease, and the epidemiology of the environment.Trade ReviewA substantial contribution to the field illustrating how public health and planning policies merged and supported each other after the Industrial Revolution, parted ways in the twentieth century, and have now remerged in tackling contemporary issues of health and the built environment. Carr draws on a myriad of sources, and the work represents sound and thorough scholarship." —Clare Cooper Marcus, University of California, Berkeley, author of Iona Dreaming: The Healing Power of Place"I cannot imagine a more perfect post-pandemic book. Public health provides the legal foundations for the architecture, landscape architecture, and planning professions in the United States. As a result, it is essential to understand the role that public health has played in shaping our cities. In The Topography of Wellness, Sara Jensen Carr provides a tour-de-force review and analysis of the checkered history of the contributions that public health and disease have played in designing and planning the American landscape." —Frederick Steiner, University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, author of Making Plans: How to Engage with Landscape, Design, and the Urban Environment
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New York University Press Biopolitics
Book SynopsisThe first systematic overview of the notion of biopolitics and its relevance in contemporary theoretical debateThe biological features of human beings are now measured, observed, and understood in ways never before thought possible, defining norms, establishing standards, and determining average values of human life. While the notion of biopolitics has been linked to everything from rational decision-making and the democratic organization of social life to eugenics and racism, Thomas Lemke offers the very first systematic overview of the history of the notion of biopolitics, exploring its relevance in contemporary theoretical debates and providing a much needed primer on the topic. Lemke explains that life has become an independent, objective and measurable factor as well as a collective reality that can be separated from concrete living beings and the singularity of individual experience. He shows how our understanding of the processes of life, the organizing of Trade ReviewWhat Lemkes final chapter makes plain, and what can thus be read back into the book on the whole...is that biopolitics is a coherent field of inquiry for future work in anthropology, sociology, science studies, and of course history and philosophy, and that it is such precisely because it is a field of inquiry, namely an arena for rigorous investigation and severe thought... This is a crucial task. Lemke is to be applauded for showing both its coherence and its needfulness. * Theory & Event *Thomas Lemke's Biopolitics: An Advanced Introductionis required reading for anyone interested in this concept. -- Carlos Novas * New Genetics and Society *[This book] advances an analytics of 'biopolitics' as a 'prospective' methodological approach, offering a number of valuable and provocative questions to guide future research. * Foucault Studies *Lemke (Goethe Univ., Germany) offers an overview of biopolitics and an account of its relevance in theoretical debate... Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword by Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore Preface Introduction 1 Life as the Basis of Politics 2 Life as an Object of Politics 3 The Government of Living Beings: Michel Foucault 4 Sovereign Power and Bare Life: Giorgio Agamben 5 Capitalism and the Living Multitude: Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri 6 The Disappearance and Transformation of Politics 7 The End and Reinvention of Nature 8 Vital Politics and Bioeconomy 9 Prospect: An Analytics of Biopolitics Notes References Index About the Author
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New York University Press Against Health
Book SynopsisNavigates the divergent cultural meanings of health, and its entanglement with morality in current political discourseYou see someone smoking a cigarette and say,Smoking is bad for your health, when what you mean is, You are a bad person because you smoke. You encounter someone whose body size you deem excessive, and say, Obesity is bad for your health, when what you mean is, You are lazy, unsightly, or weak of will. You see a woman bottle-feeding an infant and say,Breastfeeding is better for that child's health, when what you mean is that the woman must be a bad parent. You see the smokers, the overeaters, the bottle-feeders, and affirm your own health in the process. In these and countless other instances, the perception of your own health depends in part on your value judgments about others, and appealing to health allows for a set of moral assumptions to fly stealthily under the radar.Against Health argues that health is a concept, a norm, and a set of Trade Review[T]his collection of essays reexamines the definition of & health, particularly as a mechanism for moral judgment... Lots of food for thought- this highly philosophical book... will be of interest to those wanting to stretch their views on health care. * Library Journal *These essays are well-researched and supported, and this volume is suitable for academic studyin sociology, bioethics public health and public policy. It is also remarkably well written and engaging, and makes its sophisticated theoretical premises readily accessible to a wide audience. -- Lisa Bellatoni * Metapsychology Reviews *This book provides a strong antidote to the common notion that health is an unqualified good and often an individual responsibility. -- Peter Conrad * Sociology of Health & Illness *From obesity to mental health to pharmacology, the essays explore the ways in which "public" health translates increasingly as a moral judgement of behavior. * Society Magazine *A powerful group of essays, and the topics addressed in the respective chapters are interesting, insightful, and thought-provoking. -- David Serlin,author of Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America[A]n important new book. * Psychology Today *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introduction: Why "Against Health"? Jonathan M. MetzlPart I: What Is Health, Anyway? 2 What Is Health and How Do You Get It? Richard Klein 3 Risky Bigness: On Obesity, Eating, and the Ambiguity of "Health" Lauren Berlant 4 Against Global Health? Arbitrating Science, Non-Science, and Nonsense through Health Vincanne Adams Part II: Seeing Health through Morality 5 The Social Immorality of Health in the Gene Age: Race, Disability, and Inequality Dorothy Roberts 6 Fat Panic and the New Morality Kathleen LeBesco 7 Against Breastfeeding (Sometimes) Joan B. WolfPart III: Making Health and Disease 8 Pharmaceutical Propaganda Carl Elliott 9 The Strangely Passive-Aggressive History of Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder Christopher Lane 10 Obsession: Against Mental Health Lennard J. Davis 11 Atomic Health, or How The Bomb Altered American Notions of Death Joseph MascoPart IV: Pleasure and Pain after Health 12 How Much Sex Is Healthy? The Pleasures of Asexuality Eunjung Kim 13 Be Prepared S. Lochlann Jain 14 In the Name of Pain Tobin Siebers 15 Conclusion: What Next? Anna Kirkland About the Contributors Index
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