Health, illness or addiction: social aspects Books
Stanford University Press Breathless
Book SynopsisEach year in India more than two million people fall sick with tuberculosis (TB), an infectious, airborne, and potentially deadly lung disease. The country accounts for almost 30 percent of all TB cases worldwide and well above a third of global deaths from it. Because TB''s prevalence also indicates unfulfilled development promises, its control is an important issue of national concern, wrapped up in questions of postcolonial governance. Drawing on long-term ethnographic engagement with a village in North India and its TB epidemic, Andrew McDowell tells the stories of socially marginalized Dalit (ex-untouchable) farming families afflicted by TB, and the nurses, doctors, quacks, mediums, and mystics who care for them. Each of the book''s chapters centers on a material or metaphorical substancesuch as dust, clouds, and ghoststo understand how breath and airborne illness entangle biological and social life in everyday acts of care for the self, for others, and for the environment.
£77.35
University of Minnesota Press Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS,
Book SynopsisThe experience of illness (both mental and physical) figures prominently in the critical thought and activism of the 1960s and 1970s, though it is largely overshadowed by practices of sexuality. Lisa Diedrich explores how and why illness was indeed so significant to the social, political, and institutional transformation beginning in the 1960s through the emergence of AIDS in the United States. A rich intervention—both theoretical and methodological, political and therapeutic—Indirect Action illuminates the intersection of illness, thought, and politics.Not merely a revision of the history of this time period, Indirect Action expands the historiographical boundaries through which illness and health activism in the United States have been viewed. Diedrich explores the multiplicity illness–thought–politics through an array of subjects: queering the origin story of AIDS activism by recalling its feminist history; exploring health activism and the medical experience; analyzing psychiatry and self-help movements; thinking ecologically about counterpractices of generalism in science and medicine; and considering the experience and event of epilepsy and the witnessing of schizophrenia. Indirect Action places illness in the leading role in the production of thought during the emergence of AIDS, ultimately showing the critical interconnectedness of illness and political and critical thought.Trade Review"Complex yet disarmingly candid, Indirect Action queers the process of history itself, offering a politics of indirectness that is still action, of remembering that doesn't overshadow. Lisa Diedrich is skilled at presenting a turn of thought or analytic term with extraordinary precision and historical weight."—Catherine Belling, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine"Moving through several sites that link illness, thought, and political action, Indirect Action is an engaged, vital, and generative critical practice. Lisa Diedrich demonstrates that when we take a longer view of complex phenomena, we discover the occluded origins and overlooked factors leading to their emergence."—Susan M. Squier, Pennsylvania State University"Beautifully crafted, Indirect Action helps us to see how present activism, specifically health activism, might be done differently. Lisa Diedrich’s gift is her ability to capture the transversal view without losing sight of this important argument: There is enormous power in indirect action."—Lisa Cartwright, University of California, San Diego"Diedrich offers crucial new methodological resources and a rich and compelling counterarchive of theory, activism, and cultural practice that has the potential to unsettle and reorient our approach to understanding health and illness as both historical and urgently ongoing sites of political struggle."—Disability Studies QuarterlyTable of ContentsContents Introduction: Illness-Thought-Activism 1. Doing Queer Love, circa 1985 Snapshot 1: Gregg Bordowitz’s “The Order of Image Production,” 2003 and “Queer Structures of Feeling,” 1993 2. Que(e)rying the Clinic, circa 1970 Snapshot 2: Félix Guattari’s “David Wojnarowicz,” 1989 3. Enacting Clinical Experience, circa 1963 Snapshot 3: Samuel R. Delany’s Happening, 1959 4. Thinking Ecologically, circa 1962 and 1971 Snapshot 4: Frantz Fanon’s “Colonial War and Mental Disorders,” 1961 and Isaac Julien’s “Fanon,” 1996 5. Drawing Epilepsy Snapshot 5: Disability Law Center’s Investigation of Bridgewater State Hospital, 2014, and Frederick Wiseman’s Titicut Follies, 1967 6. Witnessing Schizophrenia Afterimage: ACT-UP’s “Drugs into Bodies,” the Near Present Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£70.40
University of Minnesota Press Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS,
Book SynopsisThe experience of illness (both mental and physical) figures prominently in the critical thought and activism of the 1960s and 1970s, though it is largely overshadowed by practices of sexuality. Lisa Diedrich explores how and why illness was indeed so significant to the social, political, and institutional transformation beginning in the 1960s through the emergence of AIDS in the United States. A rich intervention—both theoretical and methodological, political and therapeutic—Indirect Action illuminates the intersection of illness, thought, and politics.Not merely a revision of the history of this time period, Indirect Action expands the historiographical boundaries through which illness and health activism in the United States have been viewed. Diedrich explores the multiplicity illness–thought–politics through an array of subjects: queering the origin story of AIDS activism by recalling its feminist history; exploring health activism and the medical experience; analyzing psychiatry and self-help movements; thinking ecologically about counterpractices of generalism in science and medicine; and considering the experience and event of epilepsy and the witnessing of schizophrenia. Indirect Action places illness in the leading role in the production of thought during the emergence of AIDS, ultimately showing the critical interconnectedness of illness and political and critical thought.Trade Review"Complex yet disarmingly candid, Indirect Action queers the process of history itself, offering a politics of indirectness that is still action, of remembering that doesn't overshadow. Lisa Diedrich is skilled at presenting a turn of thought or analytic term with extraordinary precision and historical weight."—Catherine Belling, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine"Moving through several sites that link illness, thought, and political action, Indirect Action is an engaged, vital, and generative critical practice. Lisa Diedrich demonstrates that when we take a longer view of complex phenomena, we discover the occluded origins and overlooked factors leading to their emergence."—Susan M. Squier, Pennsylvania State University"Beautifully crafted, Indirect Action helps us to see how present activism, specifically health activism, might be done differently. Lisa Diedrich’s gift is her ability to capture the transversal view without losing sight of this important argument: There is enormous power in indirect action."—Lisa Cartwright, University of California, San Diego"Diedrich offers crucial new methodological resources and a rich and compelling counterarchive of theory, activism, and cultural practice that has the potential to unsettle and reorient our approach to understanding health and illness as both historical and urgently ongoing sites of political struggle."—Disability Studies QuarterlyTable of ContentsContents Introduction: Illness-Thought-Activism 1. Doing Queer Love, circa 1985 Snapshot 1: Gregg Bordowitz’s “The Order of Image Production,” 2003 and “Queer Structures of Feeling,” 1993 2. Que(e)rying the Clinic, circa 1970 Snapshot 2: Félix Guattari’s “David Wojnarowicz,” 1989 3. Enacting Clinical Experience, circa 1963 Snapshot 3: Samuel R. Delany’s Happening, 1959 4. Thinking Ecologically, circa 1962 and 1971 Snapshot 4: Frantz Fanon’s “Colonial War and Mental Disorders,” 1961 and Isaac Julien’s “Fanon,” 1996 5. Drawing Epilepsy Snapshot 5: Disability Law Center’s Investigation of Bridgewater State Hospital, 2014, and Frederick Wiseman’s Titicut Follies, 1967 6. Witnessing Schizophrenia Afterimage: ACT-UP’s “Drugs into Bodies,” the Near Present Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£21.59
University of Minnesota Press Mediating Alzheimer's: Cognition and Personhood
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the representational culture of Alzheimer’s disease and how media technologies shape our ideas of cognition and aging With no known cause or cure despite a century of research, Alzheimer’s disease is a true medical mystery. In Mediating Alzheimer’s, Scott Selberg examines the nature of this enduring national health crisis by looking at the disease’s relationship to media and representation. He shows how collective investments in different kinds of media have historically shaped how we understand, treat, and live with this disease. Selberg demonstrates how the cognitive abilities that Alzheimer’s threatens—memory, for example—are integrated into the operations of representational technologies, from Polaroid photographs to Post-its to digital artificial intelligence. Focusing on a wide variety of media technologies, such as neuroimaging, art therapy, virtual reality, and social media, he shows how these cognitively oriented media ultimately help define personhood for people with Alzheimer’s. Media have changed the practices of successful aging in the United States, and Selberg takes us deep into how technologies like digital brain-training and online care networks shape ideas of cognition and healthy aging.Packed with startlingly fresh insights, Mediating Alzheimer’s contributes to debates around bioethics, the labor of caregiving, and a national economy increasingly invested in communication and digital media. Probing the very technologies that promise to save and understand our brains, it gives us new ways of understanding Alzheimer’s disease and aging in America.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Alzheimer’s and Media1. Origin Myths: History, Histology, and Representational Value2. New Media Pioneers: Neuroimaging a National Crisis3. Use It or Lose It: Affirming the Self, Defining the Person4. PET Scans and Polaroids: Anachronizing Personhood5. Dementia in the Museum: Modern Art as Public Care6. Dementia on the Canvas: Art, Therapy, and Creativity’s Values7. Loved Ones: The Capacity for Representation, Recognition, and CareEpilogue: “How to Not Forget”AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£86.40
University of Minnesota Press Mediating Alzheimer's: Cognition and Personhood
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the representational culture of Alzheimer’s disease and how media technologies shape our ideas of cognition and aging With no known cause or cure despite a century of research, Alzheimer’s disease is a true medical mystery. In Mediating Alzheimer’s, Scott Selberg examines the nature of this enduring national health crisis by looking at the disease’s relationship to media and representation. He shows how collective investments in different kinds of media have historically shaped how we understand, treat, and live with this disease. Selberg demonstrates how the cognitive abilities that Alzheimer’s threatens—memory, for example—are integrated into the operations of representational technologies, from Polaroid photographs to Post-its to digital artificial intelligence. Focusing on a wide variety of media technologies, such as neuroimaging, art therapy, virtual reality, and social media, he shows how these cognitively oriented media ultimately help define personhood for people with Alzheimer’s. Media have changed the practices of successful aging in the United States, and Selberg takes us deep into how technologies like digital brain-training and online care networks shape ideas of cognition and healthy aging.Packed with startlingly fresh insights, Mediating Alzheimer’s contributes to debates around bioethics, the labor of caregiving, and a national economy increasingly invested in communication and digital media. Probing the very technologies that promise to save and understand our brains, it gives us new ways of understanding Alzheimer’s disease and aging in America.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Alzheimer’s and Media1. Origin Myths: History, Histology, and Representational Value2. New Media Pioneers: Neuroimaging a National Crisis3. Use It or Lose It: Affirming the Self, Defining the Person4. PET Scans and Polaroids: Anachronizing Personhood5. Dementia in the Museum: Modern Art as Public Care6. Dementia on the Canvas: Art, Therapy, and Creativity’s Values7. Loved Ones: The Capacity for Representation, Recognition, and CareEpilogue: “How to Not Forget”AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£23.39
University of Minnesota Press Breathtaking: Asthma Care in a Time of Climate
Book SynopsisAnalyzing asthma care in the twenty-first centuryAsthma is not a new problem, but today the disease is being reshaped by changing ecologies, healthcare systems, medical sciences, and built environments. A global epidemic, asthma (and our efforts to control it) demands an analysis attentive to its complexity, its contextual nature, and the care practices that emerge from both. At once clearly written and theoretically insightful, Breathtaking provides a sweeping ethnographic account of asthma’s many dimensions through the lived experiences of people who suffer from disordered breathing, as well as by considering their support networks, from secondary school teachers and coaches, to breathing educators and new smartphone applications designed for asthma control. Against the backdrop of unbreathable environments, Alison Kenner describes five modes of care that illustrate how asthma is addressed across different sociocultural scales. These modes of care often work in combination, building from or preceding one another. Tensions also exist between them, a point reflected by Kenner’s description of the structural conditions and material rhythms that shape everyday breathing, chronic disease, and our surrounding environments. She argues that new modes of distributed, collective care practices are needed to address asthma as a critical public health issue in the time of climate change.Trade Review"This elegant first monograph from the Asthma Files Project is written simply for all audiences and provides five practical recommendations. Breathtaking is social science at its best: experiential, explanatory, critical, and providing ways forward. Alison Kenner herself is an active participant as community social-scientist and as partner to someone who suffers disordered breathing. She guides us vividly across scales and registers."—Michael M.J. Fischer, author of Anthropology in the Meantime"Breathtaking is a sweeping ethnographic account of asthma and its treatments that expertly traverses questions of lived experience, medical technology, and critical ecology as they bear on the epidemic of disordered breathing. Beautifully written and poignant, this book makes a robust contribution to our understanding of the health effects of environmental degradation and climate change, deepens the critiques of biomedicalization, and heralds the promise of complementary and alternative medicine."—Anthony Ryan Hatch, author of Blood Sugar"Breathtaking is an engrossing read."—CHOICE"Breathtaking presents a compelling and very readable ethnographic overview of the ways that asthma is grappled with across a variety of 21st century American contexts. This book offers an insightful and multi-faceted account of a condition that affects so many around the world."—Somatosphere"Overall, Breathtaking takes asthma from the biomedical world, and using a multi-sited ethnography, traces connections between the experience of asthma, the environment and our bodies, allowing us to imagine new carescapes that could make the world more breathable."—LSE Review of Books"In the absence of swift and uncompromising action on the part of US legislators to combat climate change, Kenner advocates democratizing access to affordable health care; integrating breathing training into the doctor’s toolkit; and enacting policy, at all levels of government, to improve the indoor environments in which we spend the majority of our time."—H-EnvironmentTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Attuning to Asthma in Time and Place2. Three Modes of Control as Asthma Care3. Counting on Breath: Making Time with Respiratory Retraining4. The Datafication of Care5. Public Health Carescapes for Climate ChangeConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press Deadly Biocultures: The Ethics of Life-making
Book SynopsisA trenchant analysis of the dark side of regulatory life-making today In their seemingly relentless pursuit of life, do contemporary U.S. “biocultures”—where biomedicine extends beyond the formal institutions of the clinic, hospital, and lab to everyday cultural practices—also engage in a deadly endeavor? Challenging us to question their implications, Deadly Biocultures shows that efforts to “make live” are accompanied by the twin operation of “let die”: they validate and enhance lives seen as economically viable, self-sustaining, productive, and oriented toward the future and optimism while reinforcing inequitable distributions of life based on race, class, gender, and dis/ability. Affirming life can obscure death, create deadly conditions, and even kill.Deadly Biocultures examines the affirmation to hope, target, thrive, secure, and green in the respective biocultures of cancer, race-based health, fatness, aging, and the afterlife. Its chapters focus on specific practices, technologies, or techniques that ostensibly affirm life and suggest life’s inextricable links to capital but that also engender a politics of death and erasure. The authors ultimately ask: what alternative social forms and individual practices might be mapped onto or intersect with biomedicine for more equitable biofutures?Trade Review"Nadine Ehlers and Shiloh Krupar have written a brilliant book about the Janus-faced nature of neoliberal biopolitics. Focusing on a diverse range of topics, from race-based medicine to the ‘war on cancer,’ they superbly show how practices and technologies aimed at fostering life in liberal democratic regimes perversely produce vulnerability, death-in-life, and even death itself."—Jonathan Xavier Inda, author of Racial Prescriptions: Pharmaceuticals, Difference, and the Politics of Life"Deadly Biocultures is a highly original and innovative text which aims to shed light on the dual nature of neoliberal biopolitics."—Ethnic and Racial Studies "Deadly Biocultures offers a timely and provocative contribution to the rich literature on biopolitics from which it draws. Ehlers and Krupar provide unique examples and deep engagement with a wide array of American biocultures."—Disability Studies Quarterly
£77.60
University of Minnesota Press Archiving Medical Violence: Consent and the
Book SynopsisA major new reading of a U.S. public health system shaped by fraught perceptions of culture, race, and criminality At the heart of Archiving Medical Violence is an interrogation of the notions of national and scientific progress, marking an advance in scholarship that shows how such violence is both an engine of medical progress and, more broadly, the production of empire. It reads the medical archive through a lens that centers how it is produced, remembered, and contested within cultural production and critical memory. In this innovative and interdisciplinary book, Christopher Perreira argues that it is in the contradictions of settler colonialism and racial capitalism that we find how medical violence is narrated as a public good. He presents case studies from across a range of locations—Hawai‘i, California, Louisiana, Guatemala—and historical periods from the nineteenth century on. Examining national and scientific conceptions of progress through the lens of medicine and public health, he places official archives in dialogue with visual and literary works, patient writing, and more. Archiving Medical Violence explores the contested public terrains for narrating value and vulnerabilities, bodies and geographical locations. Ultimately, Perreira reveals for us a medical imaginary built on racialized criminality driving contemporary politics of citizenship, memory, and identity. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.Trade Review "In this deeply researched and sweeping examination of medical violence across time, space, and scale, Christopher Perreira takes us on a journey that unsettles progress narratives about medicine and asks us to reckon with the everyday forms of harm embedded in a profession purportedly dedicated to healing. Ultimately, Archiving Medical Violence forces us to remember all those devalued as prisoners and revalued as patients and to reimagine whose stories and lives matter for anticarceral futures animated by justice."—Ruha Benjamin, author of Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want "Examining the ways in which human bodies are rendered subject to biomedicine’s epistemological and material violence, Christopher Perreira highlights the discursive technology of the ‘prisoner-patient,’ a figure which bears the histories of white supremacy and settler colonialism. Contemporary biomedicine would do well to engage Archiving Medical Violence to think through its reliance on the same racial–carceral logics that places like prisons and segregated schools rely on, which in turn might provide new public policies to address the deep health care inequalities that are the long-term effects of the violences that Perreira’s book reveals."—James Kyung-Jin Lee, director, Center for Medical Humanities, University of California, Irvine Table of Contents Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Archiving Medical Consent 1. Medical Violence, Archival Fictions 2. Memory, Memoir, and the Carville Leprosarium 3. Imagining Medical Archives at Olive View Epilogue: Futures of Medical Violence Notes Index
£72.00
University of Minnesota Press Archiving Medical Violence: Consent and the
Book SynopsisA major new reading of a U.S. public health system shaped by fraught perceptions of culture, race, and criminality At the heart of Archiving Medical Violence is an interrogation of the notions of national and scientific progress, marking an advance in scholarship that shows how such violence is both an engine of medical progress and, more broadly, the production of empire. It reads the medical archive through a lens that centers how it is produced, remembered, and contested within cultural production and critical memory. In this innovative and interdisciplinary book, Christopher Perreira argues that it is in the contradictions of settler colonialism and racial capitalism that we find how medical violence is narrated as a public good. He presents case studies from across a range of locations—Hawai‘i, California, Louisiana, Guatemala—and historical periods from the nineteenth century on. Examining national and scientific conceptions of progress through the lens of medicine and public health, he places official archives in dialogue with visual and literary works, patient writing, and more. Archiving Medical Violence explores the contested public terrains for narrating value and vulnerabilities, bodies and geographical locations. Ultimately, Perreira reveals for us a medical imaginary built on racialized criminality driving contemporary politics of citizenship, memory, and identity. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.Trade Review "In this deeply researched and sweeping examination of medical violence across time, space, and scale, Christopher Perreira takes us on a journey that unsettles progress narratives about medicine and asks us to reckon with the everyday forms of harm embedded in a profession purportedly dedicated to healing. Ultimately, Archiving Medical Violence forces us to remember all those devalued as prisoners and revalued as patients and to reimagine whose stories and lives matter for anticarceral futures animated by justice."—Ruha Benjamin, author of Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want "Examining the ways in which human bodies are rendered subject to biomedicine’s epistemological and material violence, Christopher Perreira highlights the discursive technology of the ‘prisoner-patient,’ a figure which bears the histories of white supremacy and settler colonialism. Contemporary biomedicine would do well to engage Archiving Medical Violence to think through its reliance on the same racial–carceral logics that places like prisons and segregated schools rely on, which in turn might provide new public policies to address the deep health care inequalities that are the long-term effects of the violences that Perreira’s book reveals."—James Kyung-Jin Lee, director, Center for Medical Humanities, University of California, Irvine Table of Contents Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Archiving Medical Consent 1. Medical Violence, Archival Fictions 2. Memory, Memoir, and the Carville Leprosarium 3. Imagining Medical Archives at Olive View Epilogue: Futures of Medical Violence Notes Index
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive
Book SynopsisA critical investigation into the use of psychotropic drugs to pacify and control inmates and other captives in the vast U.S. prison, military, and welfare systemsFor at least four decades, U.S. prisons and jails have aggressively turned to psychotropic drugs—antidepressants, antipsychotics, sedatives, and tranquilizers—to silence inmates, whether or not they have been diagnosed with mental illnesses. In Silent Cells, Anthony Ryan Hatch demonstrates that the pervasive use of psychotropic drugs has not only defined and enabled mass incarceration but has also become central to other forms of captivity, including foster homes, military and immigrant detention centers, and nursing homes. Silent Cells shows how, in shockingly large numbers, federal, state, and local governments and government-authorized private agencies pacify people with drugs, uncovering patterns of institutional violence that threaten basic human and civil rights. Drawing on publicly available records, Hatch unearths the coercive ways that psychotropics serve to manufacture compliance and docility, practices hidden behind layers of state secrecy, medical complicity, and corporate profiteering.Psychotropics, Hatch shows, are integral to “technocorrectional” policies devised to minimize public costs and increase the private profitability of mass captivity while guaranteeing public safety and national security. This broad indictment of psychotropics is therefore animated by a radical counterfactual question: would incarceration on the scale practiced in the United States even be possible without psychotropics?Trade Review"For residents of state-managed institutions, the American Dream too often has been warped into a drug-addled nightmare. Combining novel insights supported by rigorous scholarship with fresh, accessible writing, Anthony Ryan Hatch presents a powerful indictment of imposing psychotropics upon the caged powerless, building an unimpugnable case that unveils a deeply troubling pattern and also affords us the chance to end it."—Harriet A. Washington, author of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present "Silent Cells is a ground-breaking study of psychiatric violence in U.S. prisons—not as an exception to the rule, but as a normalized practice of prison management without which mass incarceration would be impossible to sustain. A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the material conditions of the U.S. carceral state."—Lisa Guenther, author of Solitary Confinement: Social Death and Its Afterlives"Hatch champions a more recent neologism: necropolitics, a system for managing the socially dead." —Inside Higher Education
£57.60
University of Minnesota Press Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive
Book SynopsisA critical investigation into the use of psychotropic drugs to pacify and control inmates and other captives in the vast U.S. prison, military, and welfare systemsFor at least four decades, U.S. prisons and jails have aggressively turned to psychotropic drugs—antidepressants, antipsychotics, sedatives, and tranquilizers—to silence inmates, whether or not they have been diagnosed with mental illnesses. In Silent Cells, Anthony Ryan Hatch demonstrates that the pervasive use of psychotropic drugs has not only defined and enabled mass incarceration but has also become central to other forms of captivity, including foster homes, military and immigrant detention centers, and nursing homes. Silent Cells shows how, in shockingly large numbers, federal, state, and local governments and government-authorized private agencies pacify people with drugs, uncovering patterns of institutional violence that threaten basic human and civil rights. Drawing on publicly available records, Hatch unearths the coercive ways that psychotropics serve to manufacture compliance and docility, practices hidden behind layers of state secrecy, medical complicity, and corporate profiteering.Psychotropics, Hatch shows, are integral to “technocorrectional” policies devised to minimize public costs and increase the private profitability of mass captivity while guaranteeing public safety and national security. This broad indictment of psychotropics is therefore animated by a radical counterfactual question: would incarceration on the scale practiced in the United States even be possible without psychotropics?Trade Review"For residents of state-managed institutions, the American Dream too often has been warped into a drug-addled nightmare. Combining novel insights supported by rigorous scholarship with fresh, accessible writing, Anthony Ryan Hatch presents a powerful indictment of imposing psychotropics upon the caged powerless, building an unimpugnable case that unveils a deeply troubling pattern and also affords us the chance to end it."—Harriet A. Washington, author of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present "Silent Cells is a ground-breaking study of psychiatric violence in U.S. prisons—not as an exception to the rule, but as a normalized practice of prison management without which mass incarceration would be impossible to sustain. A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the material conditions of the U.S. carceral state."—Lisa Guenther, author of Solitary Confinement: Social Death and Its Afterlives"Hatch champions a more recent neologism: necropolitics, a system for managing the socially dead." —Inside Higher Education
£15.29
University of Minnesota Press The Alchemy of Meth: A Decomposition
Book SynopsisMeth cooks practice late industrial alchemy—transforming base materials, like lithium batteries and camping fuel, into gold Meth alchemists all over the United States tap the occulted potencies of industrial chemical and big pharma products to try to cure the ills of precarious living: underemployment, insecurity, and the feeling of idleness. Meth fires up your attention and makes repetitive tasks pleasurable, whether it’s factory work or tinkering at home. Users are awake for days and feel exuberant and invincible. In one person’s words, they “get more life.” The Alchemy of Meth is a nonfiction storybook about St. Jude County, Missouri, a place in decomposition, where the toxic inheritance of deindustrialization meets the violent hope of this drug-making cottage industry. Jason Pine bases the book on fieldwork among meth cooks, recovery professionals, pastors, public defenders, narcotics agents, and pharmaceutical executives. Here, St. Jude is not reduced to its meth problem but Pine looks at meth through materials, landscapes, and institutions: the sprawling context that makes methlabs possible. The Alchemy of Meth connects DIY methlabs to big pharma’s superlabs, illicit speed to the legalized speed sold as ADHD medication, uniquely implicating the author’s own story in the narrative. By the end of the book, the backdrop of St. Jude becomes the foreground. It could be a story about life and work anywhere in the United States, where it seems no one is truly clean and all are complicit in the exploitation of their precious resources in exchange for a livable present—or even the hope of a future.Trade Review"The Alchemy of Meth is a sui generis masterpiece. Jason Pine's kaleidoscopic vision provides a portrait of the American Dream seen from a place where instead something else flourishes: home methamphetamine production. He depicts both a human tragedy and the socioeconomic pressures that have made tragedy inevitable. The contemporary political moment makes this book particularly timely, but its grace and power will remain timeless."—Anthony Marra, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena"This is a truly remarkable ethnography of the affects, economies, and materialities of methamphetamine production (and consumption) in the decaying heartlands of the United States. Fearlessly experimental yet compulsively readable, it picks its way through debris-strewn landscapes, interweaving voices, stories, and idioms (from legal documents to poetry), encountering not only ruin and devastation but also strangeness, magic, and even, on occasion, hope."—Stuart McLean, University of Minnesota"Jason Pine’s writing is alchemical. By fusing his tales of ordinary citizens in Missouri cooking meth, he cooks up a story that goes deep and gives us a raw taste of the decaying fabric of American life today."—Norman Ohler, author of Blitzed and The Bohemians"By weaving together vignettes culled from interviews of users, cooks, family members of the affected, enforcement agents, and pharmaceutical company executives, Pine traced the topography of meth as its use expanded dramatically during the early 21st century."—CityLab"The Alchemy of Meth is like the best of person-centred ethnographies: humane, deliberate, and impactful."—Anthropological Forum
£54.40
University of Minnesota Press The Alchemy of Meth: A Decomposition
Book SynopsisMeth cooks practice late industrial alchemy—transforming base materials, like lithium batteries and camping fuel, into gold Meth alchemists all over the United States tap the occulted potencies of industrial chemical and big pharma products to try to cure the ills of precarious living: underemployment, insecurity, and the feeling of idleness. Meth fires up your attention and makes repetitive tasks pleasurable, whether it’s factory work or tinkering at home. Users are awake for days and feel exuberant and invincible. In one person’s words, they “get more life.” The Alchemy of Meth is a nonfiction storybook about St. Jude County, Missouri, a place in decomposition, where the toxic inheritance of deindustrialization meets the violent hope of this drug-making cottage industry. Jason Pine bases the book on fieldwork among meth cooks, recovery professionals, pastors, public defenders, narcotics agents, and pharmaceutical executives. Here, St. Jude is not reduced to its meth problem but Pine looks at meth through materials, landscapes, and institutions: the sprawling context that makes methlabs possible. The Alchemy of Meth connects DIY methlabs to big pharma’s superlabs, illicit speed to the legalized speed sold as ADHD medication, uniquely implicating the author’s own story in the narrative. By the end of the book, the backdrop of St. Jude becomes the foreground. It could be a story about life and work anywhere in the United States, where it seems no one is truly clean and all are complicit in the exploitation of their precious resources in exchange for a livable present—or even the hope of a future.Trade Review"The Alchemy of Meth is a sui generis masterpiece. Jason Pine's kaleidoscopic vision provides a portrait of the American Dream seen from a place where instead something else flourishes: home methamphetamine production. He depicts both a human tragedy and the socioeconomic pressures that have made tragedy inevitable. The contemporary political moment makes this book particularly timely, but its grace and power will remain timeless."—Anthony Marra, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena"This is a truly remarkable ethnography of the affects, economies, and materialities of methamphetamine production (and consumption) in the decaying heartlands of the United States. Fearlessly experimental yet compulsively readable, it picks its way through debris-strewn landscapes, interweaving voices, stories, and idioms (from legal documents to poetry), encountering not only ruin and devastation but also strangeness, magic, and even, on occasion, hope."—Stuart McLean, University of Minnesota"Jason Pine’s writing is alchemical. By fusing his tales of ordinary citizens in Missouri cooking meth, he cooks up a story that goes deep and gives us a raw taste of the decaying fabric of American life today."—Norman Ohler, author of Blitzed and The Bohemians"By weaving together vignettes culled from interviews of users, cooks, family members of the affected, enforcement agents, and pharmaceutical company executives, Pine traced the topography of meth as its use expanded dramatically during the early 21st century."—CityLab"The Alchemy of Meth is like the best of person-centred ethnographies: humane, deliberate, and impactful."—Anthropological Forum
£17.09
University of Minnesota Press Medical Technics
Book SynopsisA personal account of the aging body and advanced technologies by a preeminent philosopher of technologyMedical Technics is a rigorous examination of how medical progress has modified our worlds and contributed to a virtual revolution in longevity. Don Ihde offers a unique autobiographical tour of medical events experienced in a decade, beginning in his 70s. Ihde offers experiential and postphenomenological analyses of technologies such as sonography and microsurgery, and ultimately asks what it means to increasingly become a cyborg. Forerunners: Ideas FirstShort books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead
£9.00
University of Minnesota Press Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2
Book SynopsisA bold new indictment of the racialization of science Decades of data cannot be ignored: African American adults are far more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes than white adults. But has science gone so far in racializing diabetes as to undermine the search for solutions? In a rousing indictment of the idea that notions of biological race should drive scientific inquiry, Sweetness in the Blood provides an ethnographic picture of biotechnology’s framings of Type 2 diabetes risk and race and, importantly, offers a critical examination of the assumptions behind the recruitment of African American and African-descent populations for Type 2 diabetes research.James Doucet-Battle begins with a historical overview of how diabetes has been researched and framed racially over the past century, chronicling one company’s efforts to recruit African Americans to test their new diabetes risk-score algorithm with the aim of increasing the clinical and market value of the firm’s technology. He considers African American reticence about participation in biomedical research and examines race and health disparities in light of advances in genomic sequencing technology. Doucet-Battle concludes by emphasizing that genomic research into sub-Saharan ancestry in fact underlines the importance of analyzing gender before attempting to understand the notion of race. No disease reveals this more than Type 2 diabetes.Sweetness in the Blood challenges the notion that the best approach to understanding, managing, and curing Type 2 diabetes is through the lens of race. It also transforms how we think about sugar, filling a neglected gap between the sugar- and molasses-sweetened past of the enslaved African laborer and the high-fructose corn syrup- and corporate-fed body of the contemporary consumer-laborer.Trade Review"James Doucet-Battle has given us a brilliant book that uncovers the networks that support the pharmacapitalism of Type 2 diabetes. In this important study, we see the impact of economizing risk through biomarketing. Sweetness in the Blood is a must-read because it underscores the sacrificial labor of Black people as they become the targets of risk assessments for Type 2 diabetes and role that the technology plays in constructing ‘racial risk.’"—Dána-Ain Davis, author of Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth"Sweetness in the Blood is an indictment, not only of the global sugar industry, but of medical and biotech industries that insist on using biological race as a lens to explain and predict health disparities. Traversing breathtaking terrain, from sugar plantations to pharmaceutical board rooms, this is a must-read for everyone who wants to understand how social inequity gets under the skin and for all those committed to health justice."—Ruha Benjamin, author of Race After Technology"Sweetness in the Blood adds nuance to our understanding of race and chronic disease prevention management."—Ethnic and Racial Studies"In Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes, James Doucet-Battle offers a sweeping indictment of ways in which racial essentialism infiltrates the science and industry surrounding modern diabetes."—Social Forces"In this important contribution to deconstructing the intersections of race, capital, and disease, Doucet-Battle employs an ethnographic approach to explore the racialization of a disease, showing how the combined enterprises of pharma and medicine have constructed being African American as a risk. "—CHOICE"Doucet-Battle successfully presses his readers to question a handful of taken-for-granted concepts (i.e., race, risk, and diabetes). In that respect, Sweetness in the Blood is a wonderful example of the sociological craft. "—American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroduction. Sugar’s Racial Project: From Slavery to Diabetes1. The At-Risk Ethnographer of Sweetness2. Sweet Blood: Inventing the Prediabetic3. Algorithms of Risk and Race: Recruiting Black Risk and Marketing Black Bodies4. A Dark Past in Present Light: The Black Church, Medicine, and Trust5. The Ascension of the Black Matriarch: The Search for Metabolic AfricaConclusion. The Racialized Pancreas: Toward Biosocial JusticeAcknowledgmentsA Subversive GlossaryNotesIndex
£72.00
University of Minnesota Press Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2
Book SynopsisA bold new indictment of the racialization of science Decades of data cannot be ignored: African American adults are far more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes than white adults. But has science gone so far in racializing diabetes as to undermine the search for solutions? In a rousing indictment of the idea that notions of biological race should drive scientific inquiry, Sweetness in the Blood provides an ethnographic picture of biotechnology’s framings of Type 2 diabetes risk and race and, importantly, offers a critical examination of the assumptions behind the recruitment of African American and African-descent populations for Type 2 diabetes research.James Doucet-Battle begins with a historical overview of how diabetes has been researched and framed racially over the past century, chronicling one company’s efforts to recruit African Americans to test their new diabetes risk-score algorithm with the aim of increasing the clinical and market value of the firm’s technology. He considers African American reticence about participation in biomedical research and examines race and health disparities in light of advances in genomic sequencing technology. Doucet-Battle concludes by emphasizing that genomic research into sub-Saharan ancestry in fact underlines the importance of analyzing gender before attempting to understand the notion of race. No disease reveals this more than Type 2 diabetes.Sweetness in the Blood challenges the notion that the best approach to understanding, managing, and curing Type 2 diabetes is through the lens of race. It also transforms how we think about sugar, filling a neglected gap between the sugar- and molasses-sweetened past of the enslaved African laborer and the high-fructose corn syrup- and corporate-fed body of the contemporary consumer-laborer.Trade Review"James Doucet-Battle has given us a brilliant book that uncovers the networks that support the pharmacapitalism of Type 2 diabetes. In this important study, we see the impact of economizing risk through biomarketing. Sweetness in the Blood is a must-read because it underscores the sacrificial labor of Black people as they become the targets of risk assessments for Type 2 diabetes and role that the technology plays in constructing ‘racial risk.’"—Dána-Ain Davis, author of Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth"Sweetness in the Blood is an indictment, not only of the global sugar industry, but of medical and biotech industries that insist on using biological race as a lens to explain and predict health disparities. Traversing breathtaking terrain, from sugar plantations to pharmaceutical board rooms, this is a must-read for everyone who wants to understand how social inequity gets under the skin and for all those committed to health justice."—Ruha Benjamin, author of Race After Technology"Sweetness in the Blood adds nuance to our understanding of race and chronic disease prevention management."—Ethnic and Racial Studies"In Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes, James Doucet-Battle offers a sweeping indictment of ways in which racial essentialism infiltrates the science and industry surrounding modern diabetes."—Social Forces"In this important contribution to deconstructing the intersections of race, capital, and disease, Doucet-Battle employs an ethnographic approach to explore the racialization of a disease, showing how the combined enterprises of pharma and medicine have constructed being African American as a risk. "—CHOICE"Doucet-Battle successfully presses his readers to question a handful of taken-for-granted concepts (i.e., race, risk, and diabetes). In that respect, Sweetness in the Blood is a wonderful example of the sociological craft. "—American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroduction. Sugar’s Racial Project: From Slavery to Diabetes1. The At-Risk Ethnographer of Sweetness2. Sweet Blood: Inventing the Prediabetic3. Algorithms of Risk and Race: Recruiting Black Risk and Marketing Black Bodies4. A Dark Past in Present Light: The Black Church, Medicine, and Trust5. The Ascension of the Black Matriarch: The Search for Metabolic AfricaConclusion. The Racialized Pancreas: Toward Biosocial JusticeAcknowledgmentsA Subversive GlossaryNotesIndex
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press Opioid Reckoning: Love, Loss, and Redemption in
Book SynopsisExamines the complexity and the humanity of the opioid epidemic America’s opioid epidemic continues to ravage families and communities, despite intense media coverage, federal legislation, criminal prosecutions, and harm reduction efforts to prevent overdose deaths. More than 450,000 Americans have died from opioid overdoses since the late 1990s. In Opioid Reckoning, Amy C. Sullivan explores the complexity of the crisis through firsthand accounts of people grappling with the reverberating effects of stigma, treatment, and recovery. Nearly everyone in the United States has been touched in some way by the opioid epidemic, including the author and her family. Sullivan uses her own story as a launching point to learn how the opioid epidemic challenged longstanding recovery protocols in Minnesota, a state internationally recognized for pioneering addiction treatment. By centering the voices of many people who have experienced opioid use, treatment, recovery, and loss, Sullivan exposes the devastating effects of a one-size-fits-all approach toward treatment of opioid dependency. Taking a clear-eyed, nonjudgmental perspective of every aspect of these issues—drug use, parenting, harm reduction, medication, abstinence, and stigma—Opioid Reckoning questions current treatment models, healthcare inequities, and the criminal justice system. Sullivan also imagines a future where anyone suffering an opioid-use disorder has access to the individualized care, without judgment, available to those with other health problems. Opioid Reckoning presents a captivating look at how the state that invented “rehab” addresses the challenges of the opioid epidemic and its overdose deaths while also taking readers into the intimate lives of families, medical and social work professionals, grassroots activists, and many others impacted by the crisis who contribute their insights and potential solutions. In sharing these stories and chronicling their lessons, Sullivan offers a path forward that cultivates empathy, love, and hope for anyone affected by chaotic drug use and its harms.Trade Review "From the Land of 10,000 Rehabs comes this generous and heartening testament to the power of empathy and the wisdom of harm reduction. Living with Amy Sullivan’s stories of ‘trauma parenting,’ we are compelled to take stock of how our own lives and losses intertwine with those who people these pages."—Nancy D. Campbell, author of OD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose "An important contribution that documents the lives of those faced with America's overdose crisis in the state that originated the twelve-step/abstinence treatment approach. Addiction care must change—and this book shows why."—Maia Szalavitz, author of Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction and Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction "In this timely book, Amy C. Sullivan illuminates how the public health crisis of opioid use disorder cannot be adequately conveyed through abstract statistics. Rather, it is located in childhood bedrooms and around kitchen tables, affecting families and especially mothers. The personal narratives and oral histories Sullivan weaves together tell an indelible story of the trauma, stigma, and, above all, humanity of the experience of addiction and recovery."—Sarah Gollust, University of Minnesota School of Public Health "Dr. Sullivan’s work on behalf of addiction and treatment is remarkable and Opioid Reckoning offers a glimpse into the faces of the epidemic. With heart and soul and considerable scholarship, Sullivan has written a book that offers hope and help for anyone affected by addiction."—Superior Reads "More even than demonstrating empathy for persons affected by abuse, Sullivan models commitment to tackling stigma to best combat the abuse."—CHOICE "Although much of her book tells the stories of Addicts and their families and explores new initiatives in the recovery industry, Sullivan makes clear in the prologue that this isn't only an academic take on an important topic."—Minnesota Alumni Table of ContentsContentsPrologueIntroduction: Opioids, Oral History, and the Rehab State1. Mothering Addiction: Lessons in Trauma Parenting2. Prognosis Cloudy: Who’s to Blame for an Overdose?3. Prescription for Humility: Opioids and Addiction Medicine4. Women of Substance: Harm Reduction in Minnesota5. Dissecting Stigma: Treatment ReimaginedConclusion: My Son, Relapsed and RecoveredAbout the Minnesota Opioid ProjectAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in
Book SynopsisA personal health crisis, stories from environmental refugees, and our climate in danger prompt a meditation on intimate connections between the health of the body and the health of the ecosystem The body of the earth, beset by a climate in crisis, experiences drought much like the human body experiences thirst, as Ranae Lenor Hanson’s body did as a warning sign of the disease that would change her life: Type 1 diabetes. What if we tended to an ailing ecosystem just as Hanson learned to care for herself in the throes of a chronic medical condition. This is the possibility explored in a work that is at once a memoir of illness and health, a contemplation of the surrounding natural world in distress, and a reflection on the ways these come together in personal, local, and global opportunities for healing.Beginning with memories from a childhood nurtured among the waters of Minnesota, Watershed follows the streams and tributaries that connect us to our world and to each other, as revealed in the life stories of Hanson’s students, Minnesotans driven from their faraway homelands by climate disruption. The book’s currents carry us to threatened mangrove swamps in Saudi Arabia, to drought-stricken Ethiopia, to rocks bearing ancient messages above crooked rivers in northern Minnesota, to a diabetic crisis in an ICU bed at a St. Paul hospital. With the benefit of gentle insight and a broad worldview, Hanson encourages us at every turn to find our own way, to discover how the health of our bodies and the health of the world they inhabit are inextricably linked and how attending, and tending, to their shared distress can lead to a genuine, grounded wellbeing. When, in the grip of a global pandemic, humans drastically change their behavior to preserve human life, we also see how the earth breathes more freely as a result. In light of that lesson, Watershed helps us to consider our place and our part in the health and healing of the world around us. Trade Review "The credo ‘water is life’ has become a key environmental rallying cry in the years since Standing Rock, and this book helps us remember why. It recalls an American past, inhabits a global present, and imagines a working future—it will be an aid to many as they grapple with our difficult moment."—Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org and author of The End of Nature "In a direct and often wise voice, through a series of moving, revealing, and entertaining stories, Watershed makes clear the connection between climate change and our own bodies. A difficult task in a culture that ignores the urgency of climate change while denying that human beings are part of nature. Difficult, but needed now while the earth that sustains our bodies is under assault. This book presents us with a paradoxical gift, the idea that we can make use of the aches and pains and illnesses plaguing so many of us to wake up and act in common cause with the earth."—Susan Griffin, author of Woman and Nature "Ranae Hanson’s elegy for the Earth and our bodies speaks of the holy, the sacred. The fates of water, our bodies, our communities are intertwined. She gives voice to the voiceless. She reports on the sacred and challenges us to live our lives knowing that the connection to each other and the Earth is the basis for health, the holy, the sacred."—Carolyn Raffensperger, executive director, Science and Environmental Health Network "We need Watershed now. There’s no book like it. It’s as clear-eyed and immersive as the northern Minnesota waters that birthed it. It’s the story for our time, and just in the nick of time. With courage and tenderness, Ranae Hanson pulls back the curtain to show us that the harm we have wrought on the world is no longer a future problem to be solved. It is here now in our bodies as much as in our watersheds and forests—and in the beloved homelands of her immigrant-refuge students whose voices and stories pierce any doubt, any ill-founded hope that all will be well."—Eric Utne, founder, Utne Reader "Ranae Hanson’s remarkable book is a deep, rich, profoundly personal, and powerful exploration of how we are inseparable from the water that surrounds us, that flows through, around, and beneath our lives. It’s a book that connects us to where we stand, to the place, the watershed, the webs of love, water, family, and nature that hold us throughout our lives. Its roots run deep, its implications even deeper, and it brings many rich gifts for these extraordinary times."—Rob Hopkins, founder, Transition Movement "Such a beautiful blend of Ranae Hanson’s own story and how it connects to the deeper story of environmental damage and climate change. The book gains gravitas and urgency by weaving the impact of environmental crisis on our own human bodies with stories from all over the globe. It shows that we must face this worldwide, systemic issue together now."—Ann Manning, director, Future First Initiatives "Born in northern Minnesota where waters divide, Ranae Hanson has been communicating with the earth with reverence and empathy since early childhood. Decades of conversations are gathered in Watershed, a beautifully written memoir that weaves together explorations of keenly observed impacts of ecologic damage, climate change, and personal illness. Wisdom that Ranae Hanson has gleaned from many years of service to the earth and her students is now available to us all. It is a captivating, cautionary tale urging humility, respect, and action."—Ted Schettler, science director, Science and Environmental Health Network "Watershed is grounded and calming. It brings the full story of ecological disruption into view. Ranae Hanson’s life story combined with an exploration of the real threat and the embodied response that is necessary is a new and important angle to address climate change."—Julia Nerbonne, executive director, Minnesota Interfaith Power and Light "This book took me away from this daily dose of gloom and filled me with a sense of preciousness enabling action that isn’t just reaction. Ranae Hanson’s personal and intimate stories are full of unsentimental love for people, trees, plants, and animals displaced by our political and climate brutality. In the stories told here, those of us who are in true community with the world around, close by and far away, find moments of joy and solace by standing side-by-side near the trauma without averting our eyes. The stories point toward possible sustaining acceptance even in the midst of nightmare realities."—Robert Bosnak, author A Little Course in Dreams "This book is very unique. Much like a memoir peppered with meditations and insights, it’s filled with so many anecdotes and details, it’s easy to relate to Hanson and her somewhat unconventional upbringing."—Rochester Post-Bulletin "Watershed helps us to consider our place and our part in the health and healing of the world around us."—The Thirteen Towns "In a sea of books about the environment and personal health, Hanson’s Watershed demonstrates the remarkable degree to which they are the same topic."—Minnesota Brown "Hanson encourages us to examine our own experiences of place, home, landscape, and watershed."—Land Stewardship Project "Ranea Lenor Hanson’s memoir intertwines reflections about how her body’s health challenges reflect the earth in distress."—Minnesota Women’s Press "The book connects people across generations, cultures, and continents."—Creative Nursing "Ranae Hanson weaves a connection of humanity like a watershed collects the essence of the land it flows through."—Ely Summer Times "Hanson manages to write a memoir that truly captures interconnectedness: between people, cultures, species, and watersheds... the book as a whole feels deeply rooted, with a full and conscious awareness of the issues and challenges inherent to environmental justice. "—ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment Table of ContentsContentsNavigating the Waters of This BookHow to Live1. Where Waters DivideHandholds and Stepping Stones2. Do Not Fall Away3. Pause to SurveyConsider the Need to Stop4. The Pattern of BreathStop. Breathe. Settle.5. ThirstLonging for Water6. Listen and AcceptThe Voice of the Body7. Rely on a Deep, Cool Lake8. Feel the GriefPractice for Mourning9. Connect Humbly10. Accept BothHow to Die11. Bear WitnessCome to Know12. Walk With and Nourish Others13. Water, Plant, and Make SoilComing Home14. Fog15. Miracles, Mystery, and Dreams16. When the Time ComesListen and Prepare17. Return18. May Your Watershed Live – and You with ItRemember the Branches and StonesCoda: Life Principles of the Indigenous People of My Natal WatershedNotes
£15.29
University of Minnesota Press Therapy Tech: The Digital Transformation of
Book SynopsisA pointed look at the state of tech-based mental healthcare and what we must do to change it Proponents of technology trumpet it as the solution to the massive increase in the mental distress that confronts our nation. They herald the arrival of algorithms, intelligent chatbots, smartphone applications, telemental healthcare services, and more—but are these technological fixes really as good as they seem? In Therapy Tech, Emma Bedor Hiland presents the first comprehensive study of how technology has transformed mental healthcare, showing that this revolution can’t deliver what it promises.Far from providing a solution, technological mental healthcare perpetuates preexisting disparities while relying on the same failed focus on personal responsibility that has let us down before. Through vivid, in-depth case studies, Therapy Tech reveals these problems, covering issues including psychosurveillance on websites like Facebook and 7 Cups of Tea, shortcomings of popular AI “doctors on demand” like Woebot, Wysa, and Joy, and even how therapists are being conscripted into the gig economy.Featuring a vital coda that brings Therapy Tech up to date for the COVID era, this book is the first to give readers a large-scale analysis of mental health technologies and the cultural changes they have enabled. Both a sobering dissection of the current state of mental health and a necessary warning of where things are headed, Therapy Tech makes an important assertion about how to help those in need of mental health services today.Trade Review"Therapy Tech is a spirited, contrarian take on the idea that technology can solve or mitigate the U.S. mental health care crisis. Emma Bedor Hiland convincingly argues that smartphone wellness apps, telemedicine, and therapeutic chatbots will not cure the structural inequalities of the healthcare system; moreover, these mental health technologies carry insidious neoliberal baggage. A thought-provoking, critical exploration into the cultural life of modern mental health technologies."—Elizabeth J. Donaldson, author of Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health"Clear, concise, and accessible, Therapy Tech wades into the massive digital mental healthcare industry, providing readers with front-line reporting on the most recent episode in America’s long history of health-related consumerism. Emma Bedor Hiland shows that increased development of products and platforms—what she calls ‘technological solutionism’—does not improve access to mental healthcare for historically marginalized and under-resourced poor, rural, and racialized communities, and, if unchecked, will result in intensified forms of ‘psychosurveillance.’"—Michael Rembis, director, Center for Disability Studies, University at BuffaloTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Pursuing a Technological Fix1. Mental Wellness by Smartphone App2. Psychosurveillance3. Chatbots and Therapeutic AI4. Telemental Healthcare5. The Future of Mental Health TechnologiesCOVID CodaAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£72.00
University of Minnesota Press Therapy Tech: The Digital Transformation of
Book SynopsisA pointed look at the state of tech-based mental healthcare and what we must do to change it Proponents of technology trumpet it as the solution to the massive increase in the mental distress that confronts our nation. They herald the arrival of algorithms, intelligent chatbots, smartphone applications, telemental healthcare services, and more—but are these technological fixes really as good as they seem? In Therapy Tech, Emma Bedor Hiland presents the first comprehensive study of how technology has transformed mental healthcare, showing that this revolution can’t deliver what it promises.Far from providing a solution, technological mental healthcare perpetuates preexisting disparities while relying on the same failed focus on personal responsibility that has let us down before. Through vivid, in-depth case studies, Therapy Tech reveals these problems, covering issues including psychosurveillance on websites like Facebook and 7 Cups of Tea, shortcomings of popular AI “doctors on demand” like Woebot, Wysa, and Joy, and even how therapists are being conscripted into the gig economy.Featuring a vital coda that brings Therapy Tech up to date for the COVID era, this book is the first to give readers a large-scale analysis of mental health technologies and the cultural changes they have enabled. Both a sobering dissection of the current state of mental health and a necessary warning of where things are headed, Therapy Tech makes an important assertion about how to help those in need of mental health services today.Trade Review"Therapy Tech is a spirited, contrarian take on the idea that technology can solve or mitigate the U.S. mental health care crisis. Emma Bedor Hiland convincingly argues that smartphone wellness apps, telemedicine, and therapeutic chatbots will not cure the structural inequalities of the healthcare system; moreover, these mental health technologies carry insidious neoliberal baggage. A thought-provoking, critical exploration into the cultural life of modern mental health technologies."—Elizabeth J. Donaldson, author of Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health"Clear, concise, and accessible, Therapy Tech wades into the massive digital mental healthcare industry, providing readers with front-line reporting on the most recent episode in America’s long history of health-related consumerism. Emma Bedor Hiland shows that increased development of products and platforms—what she calls ‘technological solutionism’—does not improve access to mental healthcare for historically marginalized and under-resourced poor, rural, and racialized communities, and, if unchecked, will result in intensified forms of ‘psychosurveillance.’"—Michael Rembis, director, Center for Disability Studies, University at BuffaloTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Pursuing a Technological Fix1. Mental Wellness by Smartphone App2. Psychosurveillance3. Chatbots and Therapeutic AI4. Telemental Healthcare5. The Future of Mental Health TechnologiesCOVID CodaAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health
Book SynopsisAn event-by-event look at how institutionalized racism harms the health of African Americans in the twenty-first century A crucial component of anti-Black racism is the unconscionable disparity in health outcomes between Black and white Americans. Sickening examines this institutionalized inequality through dramatic, concrete events from the past two decades, revealing how unequal living conditions and inadequate medical care have become routine. From the spike in chronic disease after Hurricane Katrina to the lack of protection for Black residents during the Flint water crisis—and even the life-threatening childbirth experience for tennis star Serena Williams—author Anne Pollock takes readers on a journey through the diversity of anti-Black racism operating in healthcare. She goes beneath the surface to deconstruct the structures that make these events possible, including mass incarceration, police brutality, and the hypervisibility of Black athletes’ bodies. Ultimately, Sickening shows what these shocking events reveal about the everyday racialization of health in the United States.Concluding with a vital examination of racialized healthcare during the COVID pandemic and the Black Lives Matter rebellions of 2020, Sickening cuts through the mind-numbing statistics to vividly portray healthcare inequalities. In a gripping and passionate style, Pollock shows the devastating reality and consequences of systemic racism on the lives and health of Black Americans. Trade Review "Anne Pollock offers a model and method for situating everyday forms of anti-Blackness within a larger machinery of death-making that—whether it grinds people down slowly or extinguishes them swiftly—counts on our inability to connect the dots. Riveting, infuriating, and essential, Sickening reminds us that neither statistics nor structural analysis will save us, and all those committed to social change must heed the stories we tell (and are told) about racism and inequity if we are to get free."—Ruha Benjamin, author of Race After Technology "For all the ink that has been spilled on racial disparities in disease, there is frustratingly little attention to how racism works and why it both developed and persists. With Sickening, Anne Pollock meticulously illustrates several key theoretical and conceptual principles on race and racism, such as their durability, that have not yet been fully developed in the field of science and technology studies."—Lundy Braun, author of Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics "A crucial guided analysis of anti-Blackness and its impact on Black people’s ability to live as fully entitled citizens, Pollock’s scholarship is essential medicine for a society in denial about its sickness."—Foreword "This book offers us the tools to think and act critically about workable solutions, as we recognize injustice and realize our part in dismantling systems of inequities. "—Colors of Influence "Sickening is a great book for opening minds, encouraging action, and inspiring advocacy for justice."—American Scientist "In a gripping and passionate style, Pollock shows the devastating reality and consequences of systemic racism on the lives and health of Black Americans. "—The Washington Informer "In Sickening, Pollock demonstrates the breadth of her expertise on racism and health, including drawing on major Black leaders in the field—a point she notes has been lacking in research."—Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Terrorism: The Deaths of Black Postal Workers in the 2001 Anthrax Attacks2. Un/natural Disaster: Chronic Disease after Hurricane Katrina3. Mass Incarceration: On the Suspended Sentences of the Scott Sisters4. Environmental Racism: Protecting GM’s Machines While Abandoning Flint’s People5. Police Brutality: Enforcing Segregation at a Pool Party6. Reproductive Injustice: Serena Williams’ Birth StoryConclusionNotesIndex
£63.20
University of Minnesota Press Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health
Book SynopsisAn event-by-event look at how institutionalized racism harms the health of African Americans in the twenty-first century A crucial component of anti-Black racism is the unconscionable disparity in health outcomes between Black and white Americans. Sickening examines this institutionalized inequality through dramatic, concrete events from the past two decades, revealing how unequal living conditions and inadequate medical care have become routine. From the spike in chronic disease after Hurricane Katrina to the lack of protection for Black residents during the Flint water crisis—and even the life-threatening childbirth experience for tennis star Serena Williams—author Anne Pollock takes readers on a journey through the diversity of anti-Black racism operating in healthcare. She goes beneath the surface to deconstruct the structures that make these events possible, including mass incarceration, police brutality, and the hypervisibility of Black athletes’ bodies. Ultimately, Sickening shows what these shocking events reveal about the everyday racialization of health in the United States.Concluding with a vital examination of racialized healthcare during the COVID pandemic and the Black Lives Matter rebellions of 2020, Sickening cuts through the mind-numbing statistics to vividly portray healthcare inequalities. In a gripping and passionate style, Pollock shows the devastating reality and consequences of systemic racism on the lives and health of Black Americans. Trade Review "Anne Pollock offers a model and method for situating everyday forms of anti-Blackness within a larger machinery of death-making that—whether it grinds people down slowly or extinguishes them swiftly—counts on our inability to connect the dots. Riveting, infuriating, and essential, Sickening reminds us that neither statistics nor structural analysis will save us, and all those committed to social change must heed the stories we tell (and are told) about racism and inequity if we are to get free."—Ruha Benjamin, author of Race After Technology "For all the ink that has been spilled on racial disparities in disease, there is frustratingly little attention to how racism works and why it both developed and persists. With Sickening, Anne Pollock meticulously illustrates several key theoretical and conceptual principles on race and racism, such as their durability, that have not yet been fully developed in the field of science and technology studies."—Lundy Braun, author of Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics "A crucial guided analysis of anti-Blackness and its impact on Black people’s ability to live as fully entitled citizens, Pollock’s scholarship is essential medicine for a society in denial about its sickness."—Foreword "This book offers us the tools to think and act critically about workable solutions, as we recognize injustice and realize our part in dismantling systems of inequities. "—Colors of Influence "Sickening is a great book for opening minds, encouraging action, and inspiring advocacy for justice."—American Scientist "In a gripping and passionate style, Pollock shows the devastating reality and consequences of systemic racism on the lives and health of Black Americans. "—The Washington Informer "In Sickening, Pollock demonstrates the breadth of her expertise on racism and health, including drawing on major Black leaders in the field—a point she notes has been lacking in research."—Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Terrorism: The Deaths of Black Postal Workers in the 2001 Anthrax Attacks2. Un/natural Disaster: Chronic Disease after Hurricane Katrina3. Mass Incarceration: On the Suspended Sentences of the Scott Sisters4. Environmental Racism: Protecting GM’s Machines While Abandoning Flint’s People5. Police Brutality: Enforcing Segregation at a Pool Party6. Reproductive Injustice: Serena Williams’ Birth StoryConclusionNotesIndex
£17.09
University of Minnesota Press Technopharmacology
Book SynopsisExploring networked technologies and bioeconomy and their links to biotechnologies, pharmacology, and pharmaceuticals Being on social media, having pornography or an internet addiction, consciousness hacking, and mundane smartness initiatives are practices embodied in a similar manner to the swallowing of a pill. Such close relations of media technologies to pharmaceuticals and pharmacology is the focus of this book. Technopharmacology is a modest call to expand media theoretical inquiry by attending to the biological, neurological, and pharmacological dimensions of media and centers on emergent affinities between big data and big pharma. Trade Review"Technopharmacology overturns how we think about the relation between media technologies and pharmaceutical agents. The book offers compelling new perspectives on the ways in which the agency of media oscillates between toxin and intoxicant, while drug technologies generate new infrastructures of communication."—Thomas Lamarre, Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago. "Technopharmacology hits a sore but absolutely crucial spot: the relation between the pharmaceutical industry and digital media, the pharmacologization of media and the mediatization of pharmacology. A must-read to find new means of orientation in the chaotic post-pandemic world which Big Pharma and Platform Capital increasingly dominate."—Tiziana Terranova, Professor of Cultural Studies and Digital Media, University of Naples "L'Orientale"
£14.39
Fordham University Press Boy with the Bullhorn: A Memoir and History of
Book SynopsisWinner, "Gold" Independent Publishing Award (IPPY) for LGBTQ+ Nonfiction Winner, The Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, 34th Annual Triangle Awards 2023 Lammy Finalist, Gay Memoir/Biography A coming-of-age memoir of life on the front lines of the AIDS crisis with ACT UP New York. From the moment Ron Goldberg stumbled into his first ACT UP meeting in June 1987, the AIDS activist organization became his life. For the next eight years, he chaired committees, planned protests, led teach-ins, and facilitated their Monday night meetings. He cruised and celebrated at ACT UP parties, attended far too many AIDS memorials, and participated in more than a hundred zaps and demonstrations, becoming the group’s unofficial “Chant Queen,” writing and leading chants for many of their major actions. Boy with the Bullhorn is both a memoir and an immersive history of the original New York chapter of ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, from 1987 to 1995, told with great humor, heart, and insight. Using the author’s own story, “the activist education of a well-intentioned, if somewhat naïve nice gay Jewish theater queen,” Boy with the Bullhorn intertwines Goldberg’s experiences with the larger chronological history of ACT UP, the grassroots AIDS activist organization that confronted politicians, scientists, drug companies, religious leaders, the media, and an often uncaring public to successfully change the course of the AIDS epidemic. Diligently sourced and researched, Boy with the Bullhorn provides both an intimate look into how activist strategies are developed and deployed and a snapshot of life in New York City during the darkest days of the AIDS epidemic. On the occasions where Goldberg writes outside his personal experience, he relies on his extensive archive of original ACT UP documents, news articles, and other published material, as well as activist videos and oral histories, to help flesh out actions, events, and the background stories of key activists. Writing with great candor, Goldberg examines the group’s triumphs and failures, as well as the pressures and bad behaviors that eventually tore ACT UP apart. A story of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, from engaging in outrageous, media-savvy demonstrations, to navigating the intricacies of drug research and the byzantine bureaucracies of the FDA, NIH, and CDC, Boy with the Bullhorn captures the passion, smarts, and evanescent spirit of ACT UP—the anger, grief, and desperation, but also the joy, camaraderie, and sexy, campy playfulness—and the exhilarating adrenaline rush of activism.Table of ContentsPreface | ix Part I: Becoming an Activist 1 Awakening | 3 2 First Steps | 22 3 Welcome to ACT UP | 38 4 We Are Family | 52 Part II: Expanding the Agenda 5 ACT NOW and the Nine Days of Rain | 67 6 Taking Actions | 83 7 Summer Awakening | 97 8 Seize Control of the FDA | 117 Part III: Crashing Through 9 Targeting City Hall | 141 10 Storming the Ivory Tower | 163 11 Remember Stonewall Was a Riot | 179 12 Parallel Tracks | 192 13 Heading Inside | 211 14 Stop the Church | 222 Part IV: The Gorgeous Mosaic 15 The Myers Mess | 235 16 Time’s Up, Mario! | 248 17 Storm the NIH | 256 18 Inside or Out | 266 19 Can the Center Hold? | 280 20 Bombs Are Dropping | 301 Part V: Days of Desperation 21 Desperate Measures | 317 22 Splitting Differences | 333 23 Target Bush | 351 24 Strategies and Consequences | 370 Part VI: AIDS Campaign ’92 25 ACT UP / Petrelis | 383 26 The In-Your-Face Primary | 394 27 Unconventional Behavior | 402 28 Vote as If Your Life Depended on It | 417 Afterword | 437 Acknowledgments | 443 Notes | 449 Index | 483 Photographs follow page 214
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Communities That Care: Action for Drug Abuse
Book SynopsisShows how to create a comprehensive, community-wide prevention program to effectively confront the serious drug and alcohol problems threatening our youth. Shows how to employ community mobilization, educational strategies, volunteerism, and mass media to achieve significant reductions in adolescent drug use.Table of ContentsPart One: Preventing Drug Abuse Among Youth at Risk 1. The Problem of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse 2. Reducing Risk and Promoting Positive Social Development 3. Mobilizing the Community Part Two: Community Action Strategies 4. Selecting the Best Approaches for Your Community(J. DavidHawkins, Janet Y. Miller, Richard F. Catalano, Jr.) 5. Prenatal and Infancy Programs(Kathryn E. Barnard) 6. Early Childhood Education 7. Parent Training 8. School Organization and Management 9. Instructional Improvement in Schools 10. Drug and Alcohol Prevention Curricula(The W. T. GrantConsortium on the School-Based Promotion of SocialCompetence) 11. Community and School Drug Use Policies 12. Media Mobilization Part Three: Supporting Community Prevention Programs 13. Resources and Strategies for Funding(A. Baron Holmes IV, GaryD. Gottfredson, Janet Y. Miller)
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University of Massachusetts Press Inventing the Addict: Drugs, Race, and Sexuality
Book SynopsisThis book reconstructs the literary and cultural history of addiction from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. The notion of addiction has always conjured first-person stories, often beginning with an insidious seduction, followed by compulsion and despair, culminating in recovery and tentative hope for the future. We are all familiar with this form of individual life narrative, Susan Zieger observes, but we know far less about its history. 'Addict' was not an available identity until the end of the nineteenth century, when a modernizing medical establishment and burgeoning culture of consumption updated the figure of the sinful drunkard popularized by the temperance movement.In ""Inventing the Addict"", Zieger tells the story of how the addict, a person uniquely torn between disease and desire, emerged from a variety of earlier figures such as drunkards, opium-eating scholars, vicious slave masters, dissipated New Women, and queer doctors. Drawing on a broad range of literary and cultural material, including canonical novels such as ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", ""The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"", and ""Dracula"", she traces the evolution of the concept of addiction through a series of recurrent metaphors: exile, self-enslavement, disease, and vampirism. She shows how addiction took on multiple meanings beyond its common association with intoxication or specific habit-forming substances - it was an abiding desire akin to both sexual attraction and commodity fetishism, a disease that strangely failed to meet the requirements of pathology, and the citizen's ironic refusal to fulfill the promise of freedom.Nor was addiction an ideologically neutral idea. As Zieger demonstrates, it took form over time through specific, shifting intersections of gender, race, class, and sexuality, reflecting the role of social power in the construction of meaning.Trade ReviewInventing the Addict is full of excellent things. It not only makes an important contribution to the field of addiction studies and many other areas of present interest in cultural, social, and material studies, it also functions partly as a summary and synthesis of much current work in nineteenth-century civilization. - Marty Roth, author of Drunk the Night Before: An Anatomy of Intoxication
£26.31
Michigan State University Press COVID and...: How to Do Rhetoric in a Pandemic
Book SynopsisCovid and . . . How To Do Rhetoric in a Pandemic is among the first edited collections to consider how rhetoric shapes Covid’s disease trajectory. Arguing that the circulation of any virus must be understood in tandem with the public communication accompanying it, this collection converses with interdisciplinary stakeholders also committed to the project of social wellness during pandemic times. With inventive ways of thinking about structural inequities in health, these essays showcase the forces that pandemic rhetoric exerts across health conditions, politics, and histories of social injustice.
£42.95
Michigan State University Press Pandemic Crossing: Digital Technology, Everyday
Book SynopsisThroughout the COVID-19 crisis, nation states found new ways to assert power under the guise of public health, from closing or tightening borders to expanding the boundaries of acceptable citizen surveillance. As these controls increased in intensity, citizens’ passions to cross borders seemed to grow in proportion. Pandemic Crossings explores how these processes of boundary making and crossing, often mediated by digital technology despite inequity of access, had profound and often contradictory consequences on individual lives, national politics, and U.S.–China relations. This rich and geographically diverse collection of studies informed by everyday, individual experiences contribute new insights to the interplay between digital technologies and state governance during the covid-19 pandemic. It opens up new avenues of research not only on the covid-19 pandemic but also on global health crises more broadly.
£51.28
Information Age Publishing StreetWays: Chronicling the Homeless in Miami
Book SynopsisStreetWays: Chronicling the Homeless in Miami is a collection of interviews with 28 homeless individuals living in downtown Miami and Miami Beach. Besides extensive photographs of these people and their lives on the street, the book also includes interviews with social service providers, as well as a detailed analysis of homelessness in the United States and more specifically in Miami. The work concludes with a policy analysis and suggestions for addressing issues of homelessness in Miami and the nation.StreetWays attempts to make clear how and why homelessness occurs, and what the actual lives and experiences of the homeless are about. Through extensive interviews and extensive documentary photographs, a selected group of homeless Miamians lose their invisibility as their experiences, needs and aspirations are reported. The book calls for a better understanding of the experience of homelessness places such as Miami, and of the need to understand homelessness as an issue of diversity and human rights.
£40.80
Information Age Publishing StreetWays: Chronicling the Homeless in Miami
Book SynopsisStreetWays: Chronicling the Homeless in Miami is a collection of interviews with 28 homeless individuals living in downtown Miami and Miami Beach. Besides extensive photographs of these people and their lives on the street, the book also includes interviews with social service providers, as well as a detailed analysis of homelessness in the United States and more specifically in Miami. The work concludes with a policy analysis and suggestions for addressing issues of homelessness in Miami and the nation.StreetWays attempts to make clear how and why homelessness occurs, and what the actual lives and experiences of the homeless are about. Through extensive interviews and extensive documentary photographs, a selected group of homeless Miamians lose their invisibility as their experiences, needs and aspirations are reported. The book calls for a better understanding of the experience of homelessness places such as Miami, and of the need to understand homelessness as an issue of diversity and human rights.
£61.75
Information Age Publishing Cultures and Materialities of Imagination: New
Book SynopsisIn our current digital era, imagination and the cultural and material conditions by which it is developed are more crucially than ever implicated in the experienced adversities and contradictions of drug use. The technological changes of society underscore the need for rethinking dominant understandings which portray addiction as an immediate and even mindless relation between a person and a substance or behavior, only minimally affected by subjective significance and historical alterations of everyday life. Indeed, from ancient mythology to our modern times drugs have been part of our cultural history. Understandings and practices of their uses have developed through cultural ideas and cultural-material conditions like traditions, rituals and routines. Today, the omnipresence of digital media in everyday life is massively changing and expanding such cultural and material conditions. Digital media equip people with associations between drugs and an incredible abundance of images, ideas, facts, fiction, narratives, plots, soundtracks, characters, and much more, and thereby expanding their imaginable potentials for providing answers to biographical questions. People and potential drug use become connected in novel and labyrinthine ways through digital communities and arrangements of everyday life. And digital media are part of and transform the cultural-material practices in which activities and experiences of intoxication actually take place. In the book, all these details are extensively analyzed empirically based on qualitative data on the lives of a number of young, Danish people who were undergoing treatment for drug-related problems at the time of the research. An underlying premise of the entire work is that addiction may be seen as a more extreme expression of how the technological developments in our contemporary world more generally speaking magnify the contradictory implications of imagination for modern living.Over the recent years, psychological research into the significance of the human capacity to imagine for how people deal with and live their lives has received growing attention. Yet, the complex involvement of imagination in actual living and consequently the theoretical cruxes this engenders continue to amaze and surprise research and researchers. This book also contributes to these theoretical ambitions with a substantial work on the concept of imagination. It primarily suggests that a critical discussion of how imagining is essentially a contradictory process in everyday life and how it is always grounded in the agency of material aspects, ranging anywhere from mundane artifacts over mediated content to advanced technologies, is ultimately what makes the scientific study of imagination relevant to understanding and intervening in the dilemmas and crises of modern life and society.The book will primarily interest scholars of social psychology of everyday life, scholars working conceptually and empirically on imagination, scholars of social studies of media, materiality and technology, and researchers or practitioners working with addictions.
£49.95
Information Age Publishing Cultures and Materialities of Imagination: New
Book SynopsisIn our current digital era, imagination and the cultural and material conditions by which it is developed are more crucially than ever implicated in the experienced adversities and contradictions of drug use. The technological changes of society underscore the need for rethinking dominant understandings which portray addiction as an immediate and even mindless relation between a person and a substance or behavior, only minimally affected by subjective significance and historical alterations of everyday life. Indeed, from ancient mythology to our modern times drugs have been part of our cultural history. Understandings and practices of their uses have developed through cultural ideas and cultural-material conditions like traditions, rituals and routines. Today, the omnipresence of digital media in everyday life is massively changing and expanding such cultural and material conditions. Digital media equip people with associations between drugs and an incredible abundance of images, ideas, facts, fiction, narratives, plots, soundtracks, characters, and much more, and thereby expanding their imaginable potentials for providing answers to biographical questions. People and potential drug use become connected in novel and labyrinthine ways through digital communities and arrangements of everyday life. And digital media are part of and transform the cultural-material practices in which activities and experiences of intoxication actually take place. In the book, all these details are extensively analyzed empirically based on qualitative data on the lives of a number of young, Danish people who were undergoing treatment for drug-related problems at the time of the research. An underlying premise of the entire work is that addiction may be seen as a more extreme expression of how the technological developments in our contemporary world more generally speaking magnify the contradictory implications of imagination for modern living.Over the recent years, psychological research into the significance of the human capacity to imagine for how people deal with and live their lives has received growing attention. Yet, the complex involvement of imagination in actual living and consequently the theoretical cruxes this engenders continue to amaze and surprise research and researchers. This book also contributes to these theoretical ambitions with a substantial work on the concept of imagination. It primarily suggests that a critical discussion of how imagining is essentially a contradictory process in everyday life and how it is always grounded in the agency of material aspects, ranging anywhere from mundane artifacts over mediated content to advanced technologies, is ultimately what makes the scientific study of imagination relevant to understanding and intervening in the dilemmas and crises of modern life and society.The book will primarily interest scholars of social psychology of everyday life, scholars working conceptually and empirically on imagination, scholars of social studies of media, materiality and technology, and researchers or practitioners working with addictions.
£87.40
University of Arkansas Press The Provisions of War: Expanding the Boundaries
Book SynopsisThe Provisions of War examines how soldiers, civilians, communities, and institutions have used food and its absence as both a destructive weapon and a unifying force in establishing governmental control and cultural cohesion during times of conflict. Historians as well as scholars of literature, regional studies, and religious studies problematize traditional geographic boundaries and periodization in this essay collection, analyzing various conflicts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through a foodways lens to reveal new insights about the parameters of armed interactions.The subjects covered are as varied and inclusive as the perspectives offered—ranging from topics like military logistics and animal disease in colonial Africa, Indian vegetarian identity, and food in the counterinsurgency of the Malayan Emergency, to investigations of hunger in Egypt after World War I and American soldiers’ role in the making of US–Mexico borderlands. Taken together, the essays here demonstrate the role of food in shaping prewar political debates and postwar realities, revealing how dietary adjustments brought on by military campaigns reshape national and individual foodways and identities long after the cessation of hostilities.Table of Contents Introduction: Geography and Chronology in Food and Warfare —Justin Nordstrom I – Expanding Geographic Boundaries 1. Yankee Pigs and Dying Cattle: Military Logistics, Animal Disease, and Economic Power in the U.S. and Colonial Africa in the Nineteenth Century —Erin Stewart Mauldin 2. The Decisive Weapon? Rations and Food Supply in the Boer War of 1899–1902 —Matthew Richardson 3. Food and Anticolonialism at Gandhi’s Intentional Communities in South Africa and India —Karline McLain 4. The Making of Indian Vegetarian Identity —Mohd Ahmar Alvi 5. Hungry Empire: Manchuria and the Failed Food Autarky in Imperial Japan, 1931–41 —Jing Sun 6. “We Don’t Need Red Tape, We Need Red Meat”: A Comparative Overview of the Fight against Black-Market Meat in Australia, Canada, Great Britain, and the United States during World War II —Leslie A. Przybylek 7. Food in the Counterinsurgency of the Malayan Emergency: Security, Hawking, and Food Denial —Yvonne Tan II – Expanding Chronological Boundaries 8. “To Calm Our Rebellious Stomachs”: U.S. Soldiers’ Experience with Food during the U.S.–Mexico War —Christopher Menking 9. Food, Hunger, and Rebellion: Egypt in World War I and Its Aftermath —Christopher S. Rose 10. Tasting Recovery: Food, Disability, and the Senses in World War I American Rehabilitation —Evan P. Sullivan 11. Culinary Nationalism and Ethnic Recipe Collections during and after World War I —Carol Helstosky 12. Still Poor, Still Little, Still Hungry? The Diet and Health of Belgian Children after World War I —Nel de MÛelenaere 13. Planting Pan-Americanism: The Good Neighbor Policy and the Visual Culture of Corn, 1933–45 —Breanne Robertson 14. “Six Taels and Four Maces (Luk-Leung-SeÍ)”: Food and Wartime Hong Kong, 1938–46 —Kwong Chi Ma 15. Selling Out the Revolution for a Plate of Beans: Social Eating and Violence in Peru’s Civil Conflict of the 1980s and 1990s —Bryce Evans
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University of Arkansas Press The Provisions of War: Expanding the Boundaries
Book SynopsisThe Provisions of War examines how soldiers, civilians, communities, and institutions have used food and its absence as both a destructive weapon and a unifying force in establishing governmental control and cultural cohesion during times of conflict. Historians as well as scholars of literature, regional studies, and religious studies problematize traditional geographic boundaries and periodization in this essay collection, analyzing various conflicts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through a foodways lens to reveal new insights about the parameters of armed interactions.The subjects covered are as varied and inclusive as the perspectives offered—ranging from topics like military logistics and animal disease in colonial Africa, Indian vegetarian identity, and food in the counterinsurgency of the Malayan Emergency, to investigations of hunger in Egypt after World War I and American soldiers’ role in the making of US–Mexico borderlands. Taken together, the essays here demonstrate the role of food in shaping prewar political debates and postwar realities, revealing how dietary adjustments brought on by military campaigns reshape national and individual foodways and identities long after the cessation of hostilities.Table of Contents Introduction: Geography and Chronology in Food and Warfare Justin Nordstrom I – Expanding Geographic Boundaries 1. Yankee Pigs and Dying Cattle: Military Logistics, Animal Disease, and Economic Power in the U.S. and Colonial Africa in the Nineteenth Century Erin Stewart Mauldin 2. The Decisive Weapon? Rations and Food Supply in the Boer War of 1899–1902 Matthew Richardson 3. Food and Anticolonialism at Gandhi’s Intentional Communities in South Africa and India Karline McLain 4. The Making of Indian Vegetarian Identity Mohd Ahmar Alvi 5. Hungry Empire: Manchuria and the Failed Food Autarky in Imperial Japan, 1931–41 Jing Sun 6. “We Don’t Need Red Tape, We Need Red Meat”: A Comparative Overview of the Fight against Black-Market Meat in Australia, Canada, Great Britain, and the United States during World War II Leslie A. Przybylek 7. Food in the Counterinsurgency of the Malayan Emergency: Security, Hawking, and Food Denial Yvonne Tan II – Expanding Chronological Boundaries 8. “To Calm Our Rebellious Stomachs”: U.S. Soldiers’ Experience with Food during the U.S.–Mexico War Christopher Menking 9. Food, Hunger, and Rebellion: Egypt in World War I and Its Aftermath Christopher S. Rose 10. Tasting Recovery: Food, Disability, and the Senses in World War I American Rehabilitation Evan P. Sullivan 11. Culinary Nationalism and Ethnic Recipe Collections during and after World War I Carol Helstosky 12. Still Poor, Still Little, Still Hungry? The Diet and Health of Belgian Children after World War I Nel de MÛelenaere 13. Planting Pan-Americanism: The Good Neighbor Policy and the Visual Culture of Corn, 1933–45 Breanne Robertson 14. “Six Taels and Four Maces (Luk-Leung-SeÍ)”: Food and Wartime Hong Kong, 1938–46 Kwong Chi Ma 15. Selling Out the Revolution for a Plate of Beans: Social Eating and Violence in Peru’s Civil Conflict of the 1980s and 1990s Bryce Evans
£56.25
Texas Tech Press,U.S. Hitler's Maladies and Their Impact on World War
Book SynopsisToward the end of World War II, Hitler's many health complications became even more pronounced, making an evil man yet more erratic and dangerous. While the subject of Hitler's health has been catalogued previously, never has it been done so this thoroughly or with this level of up-to-date medical expertise.Tom Hutton's new neurobehavioral analysis of Adolf Hitler draws from a lifetime of medical research and clinical experience to understand how the dictator's particular medical history further warped a deformed personality and altered Hitler's decision making.Dr. Hutton trained under the world-renowned neuropsychologist and father of modern neuropsychological assessment, Dr. Alexander Luria, giving him a uniquely qualified eye to undertake this most difficult assessment.While many books on the subject thumb through the annals of popular psychology to understand history's most famous monsters, Dr. Hutton's latest book uses contemporary clinical knowledge, lucidly synthesizing medical complexities for all audiences.Here Dr. Hutton undertakes a thorough medical history to elucidate a pivotal historical moment, examining how disease impacted Hitler's destructive life.
£22.46
Bucknell University Press Narrating Infertility in Spain
£27.90
NewSouth Publishing Hooked
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AU Press Health and Safety in Canadian Workplaces
Book SynopsisThis textbook provides workers and students with an introduction to effective injury prevention. It pays particular attention to how issues of precarious employment, gender, and ill-health can be better handled in Canadian occupational health and safety (OHS). Health and Safety in Canadian Workplaces offers an extensive overview of central OHS concepts and practices and provides practical suggestions for health and safety advocacy. It attempts to bring OHS into a twenty-first century context by discussing contemporary workplaces and the health effects of new work processes and structures while recognizing that safety has gendered and racialized dimensions. Foster and Barnetson contend that the practice of occupational health and safety can only be understood if we acknowledge that workers and employers have conflicting interests.
£23.39
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Elgar Companion to Social Capital and Health
Book SynopsisSherman Folland and Eric Nauenberg present the cutting-edge of research covering the ever-expanding social capital field. With excellent contributions from leading academics, the Elgar Companion to Social Capital and Health offers a developed examination of new research across sociology, epidemiology, economics, psychology and political science. Authors from across North America, Europe and Asia provide wide-ranging and detailed accounts of social capital and health, focusing on social networks, causality and productivity. Sections cover theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence supporting the connection between social capital and health worldwide. Authors discuss ageing, immigration, religion and workplace health, as well as focusing on social capital in developing countries experiencing rapid and extensive economic growth. Essential reading for any aspirational social capital and health policy academic, this Companion offers future paths for research within sociology, health economics, epidemiology, political science and social policy. The breadth of study would also benefit public health officials, policy analysts and healthcare decision-makers.Contributors include: S.R. Ali, N.D. Anderson, S. Child, H. Corman, S. Dinda, S. Folland, C. Frazier, J. Guo, M.K. Islam, T. Iversen, F. Jusot, O. Kaarbøe, M. Lindström, M. Ljunge, J. Mandelbaum, M. Menéndez, S. Moore, E. Nauenberg, K. Noonan, P.J. Pettis, N.E. Reichman, L. Rocco, L. Rochaix, E. Shapiro, C. Sharony, T.W. Someno, L. Song, Y.-H. WuTrade Review'Did you know that the concept of ''social capital'' can be traced to Marx? This Companion contains many more startling insights, not least due to its comprehensive review of worldwide empirical evidence suggesting that indeed social capital may have a causal effect not only on mental but also on physical health. Congratulations to the contributors!' --Peter Zweifel, University of Zurich, SwitzerlandTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Sherman Folland and Eric Nauenberg PART I Theories on how social capital improves health 2. How does social capital contribute to health? Sherman Folland 3. History of social capital and health M. Kamrul Islam 4. How social capital arises in areas Tor Iversen and Tigist Woldetsadik Sommeno PART II Special inquiries on social capital and health 5. Social capital and health across the life cycle Eric Nauenberg 6. Religious and social capital and health Ephraim Shapiro and Chen Sharony PART III Empirical evidence: does social capital improve health? 7. Social capital in epidemiology Martin Lindström 8. Social capital and aging brain health Nicole D. Anderson 9. Social capital and types of illnesses: Where is it most effective? M. Kamrul Islam, Sherman Folland and Oddvar Martin Kaarbøe 10. Social capital and risk-taking behavior Sherman Folland PART IV Causality issues 11. Social capital and health interventions: Enhancing social capital to improve health Jean Guo, Setti Raïs Ali and Lise Rochaix 12. Does health affect social capital? Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan and Nancy E. Reichman 13. Trust promotes health: addressing reverse causality by studying children of immigrants Martin Ljunge 14. Workplace social capital and sickness absence M. Kamrul Islam and Lorenzo Rocco PART V Sociology and social capital 15. Network approaches to the study of social capital and health Spencer Moore, Stephanie Child, Yun-Hsuan Wu and Jennifer Mandelbaum 16. Do network members’ resources generate health inequality? Social capital theory and beyond Lijun Song, Cleothia G. Frazier and Philip J. Pettis PART VI Social capital and health in world development 17. Social capital and health inequalities in developing countries: A case study for Indonesia Florence Jusot and Marta Menéndez 18. Social capital and economic growth Soumyananda Dinda Index
£159.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Health Policy: Choice, Equality and Cost
Book SynopsisThis lucid and comprehensive book explores the ways in which the State, the market and the citizen can collaborate to satisfy people's health care needs. It argues that health care is not a commodity like any other. It asks if its unique properties mean that there is a role for social regulation and political management. Apples and oranges can be left to the buyers and the sellers. Health care may require an input from the consensus, the experts, the insurers, the politicians and the bureaucrats as well.David Reisman makes a fresh contribution to the debate. He argues that the three policy issues that are of primary importance are choice, equality and cost. He explores the balance between the patient, the practitioner and public opinion; the disparities in outcome indicators and access to medical care; and the escalation in prices and quantities at the expense of other areas of social life. Reisman concludes that, despite its significance for the individual and the nation, there is no single definition of health or health care. The maximand is a mix. Yet decisions have to be made.This thought-provoking and insightful book will be of use to students and scholars of public policy, social policy and health economics. It will also be of interest to medical practitioners who want to situate hard choices about health and illness in a broad multidisciplinary context.Trade Review'Too often health economics proceeds without serious consideration of the concrete challenges of health policy. David Reisman's new book does just the opposite: it starts with those challenges and shows what the economics of health care must be to address them. This makes the economics of health care inseparable from the ethics of health care. This book is highly recommended for clear and sensible thinking about the economics of health policy.' --John Davis, Marquette University, US and University of Amsterdam, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Good Health 3. The Invisible Mind 4. Inputs and Outcomes 5. The Individual 6. The Practitioner 7. The Public 8. The Logic of Insurance 9. Insurance: Public and Private 10. Equity and Equality 11. The Right to Health 12. Inequality and Health 13. Narrowing the Gap 14. Equalising Medical Care 15. The Cost of Care 16. Cost Containment 17. State, Market and Cost 18. Conclusion Index
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Emerald Publishing Limited Reconsidering Patient Centred Care: Between
Book SynopsisWinner of the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2023 In a major contribution to the sociology of medicine, Alison Pilnick shifts the terms of the debate around patient centred care (PCC). PCC is typically framed as a moral imperative, necessary to prevent a return to the outmoded medical paternalism of the past. However, empirical research repeatedly fails to show a clear link between the adoption of PCC and improvement in health outcomes. These results are largely considered as professional failings, to be remediated through ‘better’ training in PCC; as a result empirical research is largely focused on the extent to which practice does not live up to checklists of PCC criteria. Through the detailed examination of a large corpus of healthcare interactions collected from a range of settings over a 25 year period, Pilnick illustrates the ways in which there are good organisational and interactional reasons for what may look from a PCC perspective like ‘bad’ healthcare practice. Conceptualisations of PCC typically foreground the importance of patient autonomy, to be exercised through choice and control; the analysis presented here highlights the problems with these consumerist underpinnings of PCC, and shows how the interactional consequence of attempting to enact them is often the sidelining of medical expertise that patients want or need. Arguing that reform would be better directed at considering how this expertise can be re-centred in contemporary healthcare, the analysis illustrates why values-driven policy can be problematic in practice, and points to the importance of using analyses of healthcare interaction to inform healthcare policy making from the outset, rather than simply as a barometer of its success.Trade ReviewReconsidering Patient Centred Care … is essential reading … it provides a convincing, empirically grounded assessment of patient centered care, which is being evaluated and judged both in relation to the logics and imperatives of real-life interaction in medical encounters and with reference to the societal purpose and function of medicine in the first place. -- Melisa Stevanovic * Symbolic Interaction *The book would be enjoyable and useful to clinicians and policymakers, as well as sociologists. It shows the problems with widespread assumptions about what happens in the medical encounter. Such assumptions are taken as the starting point of policy interventions (and indeed sociological analyses) into many pressing issues and the book therefore successfully commends conversation analysis as a method for interrogating PCC by starting, not ending, with study of interaction itself. -- Eleanor Kashouris, Kashouris, E. (2023), Reconsidering patient centred care: Between autonomy and abandonment. By Pilnick, Alison, Emerald. 2022. 168pp. £65 (hbck). ISBN: 9781800717442. Sociol Health Illn, 45: 1393-1394. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13646The array of topics and extracts in this 5-chapter monograph shows how challenging PCC is for healthcare professionals to define and enact, particularly when PCC is competing with other institutional goals and service delivery constraints […] The book is potentially of interest to anyone involved in researching, developing, teaching or implementing healthcare policy and practice and may particularly appeal to clinical academics. -- Avril Nicoll, Nicoll, A. (2023), Reconsidering patient centred care: Between autonomy and abandonment. By Pilnick, A. Bingley, Emerald Publishing Limited. 2022. pp. 168. £65.00 (hardback). ISBN: 9781800717442. Sociol Health Illn, 45: 1395-1396. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13677This is a pathbreaking book in its use of conversation analysis to revisit core issues in medical sociology [...] It shows a deep knowledge of the history of debates in the field and a breadth of scholarship that situates conversation analysis firmly as a sociological practice. [...] This book clearly shows the value of detailed, painstaking and thorough empirical work for challenging self-defined assumptions of virtuous practice. It needs to be read by anyone with an interest in the communication skills of health professionals. -- Robert Dingwall, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Nottingham Trent UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. What is Patient Centred Care? Chapter 2. Patient Centred Care in Practice Chapter 3. On good interactional reasons for ‘bad’ healthcare practice Chapter 4. Rehabilitating medical expertise for the 21st Century Chapter 5. Moving beyond Patient Centred Care?
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd A Research Agenda for COVID-19 and Society
Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.With contributions from leading experts in the fields of anthropology, communications, disaster studies, economics, epidemiology, Indigenous studies, philosophy and sociology, this expansive book offers a diverse range of social science perspectives on the COVID-19 pandemic, providing critical insights into what a research agenda for COVID-19 and society resembles across different fields of study. This timely Research Agenda investigates what the social sciences can contribute to COVID-19 scholarship, exploring topics such as the impact of the pandemic on women and Indigenous Peoples, ideas behind herd immunity, drivers of vaccine diplomacy, magnification of existing inequalities, and the ethics of vaccine passports. Driven by a particular focus on the causes and consequences of the pandemic, the book considers the opportunities that research into COVID-19 presents, including how such disasters might be mitigated, as well as how we might change the world for the better and carry out our own work differently in the future. Drawing upon numerous critical theories and methodological approaches, this incisive Research Agenda will be an invaluable tool for academics across the social sciences, particularly disaster scholars. Graduate and undergraduate students will benefit from its wealth of insightful contributions from experts working in their respective fields.Trade Review‘Social science at its best. This important book takes huge steps towards helping us reimagine the social world, highlighting and thinking through the strengths but also the weakness of social, political and cultural bonds revealed by the pandemic. Strongly grounded in empirical research but also theoretically compelling, this book will stimulate a range of new insights into how we can navigate our way towards radically altered horizons.’ -- Robert van Krieken, The University of Sydney, Australia‘A Research Agenda for COVID-19 and Society provides impressive critical analyses and innovative research reflections on the complex social consequences of the SARS-CoV 2 pandemic. The volume has compelling contributions from social scientists from a range of disciplinary fields, including sociology, anthropology, philosophy and political economy, and provides incisive analyses of reactions to the pandemic in a number of countries, including Australia, Canada, China, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden and the US.A Research Agenda for COVID-19 and Society also provides analyses of the pandemic and its consequences in relation to indigeneity, gender and the pandemic amplification of the care crisis, the interconnection of humans to other animals, plants, and non-organic things, as well as in respect of the multiple disruptions to everyday life, and not least the ways in which the necessity for forms of governmental intervention and increased investment in and support for the public sphere has served to confirm the limitations of the neoliberal policy paradigm. A Research Agenda for COVID-19 and Society deserves to be widely read and will prove to be a very valuable resource for researchers across the social sciences.' -- Barry Smart, University of Portsmouth, England‘Steve Matthewman is unquestionably one of the world's leading sociologists of catastrophe and disaster. In this collection, he has unerringly marshalled a series of revelatory perspectives that will be essential for understanding COVID-19 and “the new normal”. There is not one weak spot among them. This is a landmark contribution to the field.’ -- Chris Rojek, City, University of London, UK
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Encyclopedia of Health Research in the Social
Book SynopsisFeaturing state-of-the-art contributions from leading experts in their respective fields, the Encyclopedia of Health Research in the Social Sciences explores an extensive range of topics, concepts, research approaches and theoretical orientations aimed at providing guidance for those undertaking health research.Cross-disciplinary in scope, the Encyclopedia provides an accessible introduction to a wide variety of complex topics and presents a comprehensive overview of the latest findings in the field of health research. Entries examine timely issues such as big data in healthcare, complementary and alternative medicine, feminism and population health, social class and health inequalities, and vaccination debates. It ultimately exemplifies how social science perspectives can be deployed to help us better understand how individuals, institutions and society can act to support health and wellbeing. This informative Encyclopedia will be an indispensable reference for undergraduate and postgraduate students across disciplines with an interest in the complex relations between health research and the social sciences. Key Features: 65 fully-referenced entries An interdisciplinary approach, with topics ranging from animal studies to wellbeing Written in a concise and accessible style, enabling researchers and students of social science to consider how to relate entries to their own interests Trade Review‘Kevin Dew and Sarah Donovan offer an invaluable conceptual toolkit for health researchers wanting to learn more about what the social sciences have to offer them. The range of topics covered in this volume is impressive, providing guidance to key ideas, debates and further reading on specialist topics.’ -- Alan Petersen, Monash University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Encyclopedia of Health Research in the Social Sciences x Kevin Dew and Sarah Donovan Animal studies and healthcare 1 James Gillett Big data in healthcare 7 Mary F.E. Ebeling Breastfeeding 12 Emily Hansen and Jennifer Ayton Chronic illness 18 Dima Rusho and Narelle Warren Commercial determinants of health 24 Sarah Hill Communication research on climate change 30 Eryn Campbell, Sri Saahitya Uppalapati, John Kotcher, and Edward Maibach Complementary and alternative medicine 36 Caragh Brosnan Complexity theory and evaluation 42 Elizabeth McGill Contested illness 48 Tarryn Phillips and Catherine Trundle Critical policy analysis 54 Heather Came and Dominic O’Sullivan Critical quantitative research 59 Lindsay McLaren Critical realism 65 Lee F. Monaghan Cultural health capital 71 Leslie Dubbin and Janet K. Shim Death and dying 77 Rebecca E. Olson and Zhaoxi Zheng Dementia studies 82 James Rupert Fletcher Digital health 88 Benjamin Marent and Flis Henwood Disasters and health 94 Sudeepa Abeysinghe Discourse analysis 98 Ewen Speed Economics for health equity 103 Lindsay McLaren Ethical sensibilities in ethnographies of care 109 Ignacia Arteaga and Henry Llewellyn Ethnicity, racism and health 115 Hannah Bradby Feminism and population health 122 Kalysha Closson and Allison Carter Framing pollution 128 Lesley Henderson Genetic medicine 135 Courtney Addison Harm reduction 140 Rebecca J. Haines-Saah and Elaine Hyshka Health promotion 146 Morten Hulvej Rod and Katherine L. Frohlich Hermeneutic phenomenology 151 Susan Crowther Hormonal contraception 158 Nayantara Sheoran Appleton Indigenous peoples and health research 164 Anna Adcock and Fiona Cram Indoor ecologies and health 169 Rachael Wakefield-Rann Leadership 175 David Evans LGBTQ+ health and social research 181 Anthony K.J. Smith and Christy E. Newman Life course research 187 David Blane Medicalisation 192 Kevin Dew Micro-analysis and health interactions 198 Maria Stubbe Mobilities and health 204 Judith Green Nature and wellbeing 211 Jonathan (Yotti) Kingsley Neoliberalism 216 Peri Ballantyne New medical technologies 221 John Gardner Occupational health and safety 227 Josh Barton Older age 232 Gavin J. Andrews and Stephanie Hatzifilalithis Pandemics and epidemics 237 Robert Dingwall Pharmaceuticalisation 243 Jonathan Gabe Postmodernism and health research 248 Lee Thompson Practice theory and health intervention 251 Fiona Spotswood Prenatal screening 256 Ruth P. Fitzgerald Professionalization 261 Jette Ernst Qualitative evidence synthesis 266 Christopher J. Colvin Qualitative interviews 271 Hilary Thomas and Sarah Earthy Responsibility 277 Catherine Trundle Science and Technology Studies 283 Catherine M. Montgomery Sensory methods 288 Marilys Guillemin and Susan M. Cox Sexuality and health 293 Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz Social class and health inequalities 299 Sarah Hill Social marketing 305 Fiona Spotswood Sociology of pesticides 310 Manuel Vallée Stigma and public health 317 Tamar M.J. Antin and Emile Sanders Symbolic interactionism 322 James Rupert Fletcher Translational research 328 Trisha Greenhalgh and Anne E. Ferrey Trust 335 Michael Calnan Vaccination debates 342 Brian Martin Video-reflexive ethnography 346 Katherine Carroll Violence against women 352 Janet L. Fanslow Visual methods 359 Susan M. Cox and Marilys Guillemin Wellbeing 365 Kim McLeod
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Cultural (Im)mobilities and the Virocene:
Book SynopsisThis unique book considers COVID-19 as one pandemic amongst many, forming an episodic era of ebbing and flowing crises: the Virocene. Investigating COVID-19 in the context of the phenomenology of the crisis, it offers critical exploration of key theses in the study of mobility and futures, travel and citizenship. Through thought-provoking and insightful analysis Rodanthi Tzanelli suggests that COVID-19, and any highly infectious virus that follows, evolves into the new self-governing principle of various forms of movement, acting as an ontological magnet: as mobilities become reshaped by remote technologies, the very order of reality changes.Examining how one viral crisis can trigger more crises, prompting radical self-assessment in the new orders of life, Tzanelli suggests that the Virocene and the Anthropocene interact in ways that may lead to multiple ecological failures or produce the key to better futures. This interdisciplinary book analyses contemporary events from a range of perspectives, providing a large-scale qualitative assessment of recent phenomena.It will be a key resource for students and scholars of cultural sociology, sociological theory, geography, anthropology, environmental humanities and communication studies, while also benefiting practitioners in crisis management and policymaking interested in alternative approaches to pandemics and social change.Trade Review‘Cultural (Im)mobilities and the Virocene: Mutating the Crisis deftly transcends both the myopic obsession with the crisis at hand and the optimistic platitudes about its aftermath that have circulated in popular pandemic commentary. In their place, Tzanelli offers a fresh perspective on the pandemic, arguing that it is not merely a momentary reordering of our daily (im)mobilities, but rather symptomatic of a new epoch in which recurring crises have become a hallmark of human life on earth. Tzanelli’s diagnosis shifts the conversation into an altogether different register, inviting readers to question our deeply held assumptions about the nature of reality and pointing us toward the real hopes we might harbor for our future world.’ -- Jennie Germann Molz, College of the Holy Cross, USTable of ContentsContents: PART I RE-INTRODUCING THE COENIC : OVERLAPPING ERAS = OVERLAPPING IMAGINARIES? Introduction to Cultural (Im)mobilities and the Virocene PART II VIROPOLITICS 1. Virocene imaginaries: colonising the ontic sphere 2. Virocene emplotments: masking cultural politics as biomedical events PART III FABRICA MUNDI (DIGITALIS) : THE RADICAL SHIFT 3. Work and the new (im)mobilities of the Virocene 4. Virocene pilgrimage in micro-spheres PART IV TOURISM, TRAVEL, ALTERMOBILITIES 5. Post-viral tourism’s antagonistic tourist imaginaries 6. Beyond technophilia: from alternative modernities to alternative realities PART V BEFORE THE REVOLUTION (IS THE DAY WE ALWAYS COME HOME Conclusion: pluritopia and pluriworlds that travel (with) us Bibliography Index
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Seagull Books London Ltd The Second Wave – Reflections on the Pandemic
Book SynopsisLessons in resilience in the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India. Focusing on the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India between April and December 2021, Rustom Bharucha’s timely essay reflects on four interconnected realities that haunted this ongoing crisis—death, grief, mourning, and extinction. How do we cope with multiple deaths and the dislocation of rituals when the act of mourning is either postponed or denied? What roles do political surveillance, censorship, the regulation of lockdowns, and the sheer indifference to the lives of people play in the containment of civil liberties? Through vivid examples of photography, theater, dance, visual arts, and the cultures of everyday life, this meditative essay illuminates both the horror of the pandemic as well as its unexpected intimacies and revelations of shared suffering. Against the destruction of nature and the disrespect for the nonhuman, The Second Wave offers lessons in resilience through its reflections on the ethos of waiting and the need to re-envision breath as a vital resource of self-renewal and resistance.Trade Review"An extraordinarily thoughtful meditation on the depiction of illness, death and displacement, the expression of loss and grief, and the possible positive potential of the pandemic experience for the future." * Roughghosts *"The Second Wave is an unsettling read, deeply personal yet universal, horrifying yet infusing hope in the many acts of self-renewal and resistance during the pandemic. It is a book that merits multiple readings." * Biblio *"The Second Wave is an intellectual tour de force of contemplation on the depredations and consequences of the pandemic in India." * The Statesman *"Bharucha has certainly provided us the answer to the question ‘How to write about a tragedy?’ What is certain is that the manner in which Bharucha presents the pandemic before us and the fractures within our societies that he exposes, will change the lens the reader looks at the world through. The book would stay with the reader, urging her to keep coming back to it, a phenomenon rare with nonfiction." * Contributions to Indian Sociology *"Rustom Bharucha brings a poet's attentiveness and a lapidarist’s precision to his analysis of an unforeseen time and India's response to the Covid-induced pandemic." -- Jerry Pinto, author of The Education of Yuri"Cultural critic and dramaturg Rustom Bharucha’s masterful book takes readers on a trip into the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India, with a particular focus on the harrowing days between April and October 2021. . . . Though it might be difficult to imagine finding hope in this scenario, Bharucha does just that—not by denying realities but by identifying in art an unexpected appreciation of what humans are capable of surviving." * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface1. Photography in the PandemicPreambleHospitalCrematoriaGanga Censoring the pandemicOwnershipThe Long MarchProblematizing durationRepresenting Jamlo Ethics of cryingIn the eyes of the law2. No time to MournSymptoms of griefThe Case of Ram Pukar PanditLiving with the deadPerforming mourning: life and art“Artistic” mourning practicesa.Artificeb.Objectsc.Documentaryd.Spectacle“Rudali”: mourning as survival“Walk”: mourning as resistanceMourning: performed or real?3. Endings/BeginningsExitOn the Cusp of Multiple TimesGenocideExtinctionHiroshima museumized: aporias of peaceThe ethos of waitingReclaiming the vitality of the bodyStillness in movementa.Pranab.Oxygen Breath, breathlessness, and combat breathingPostscriptNotes
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Emerald Publishing Limited Digitisation, AI and Algorithms in African
Book SynopsisAI, robots, algorithms, and data/metrics are pervasive throughout the media industry, increasingly dictating and rapidly changing journalistic and newsroom practices, cultures, and norms - from editorial agenda setting to news production processes, to audience and advertiser targeting. Social media platforms in particular have been at the core of the AI and algorithmic turn, offering real-time consumer analytics and newsfeeds for insatiable and borderless digital citizens. The algorithms within these platforms make them powerful news aggregators, redirecting consumer habits and advertisers, making them vital in the journalism practice and media viability across the globe. Despite this, there is a shortage of scholarship on AI, algorithms and data-driven journalism from the global South, and especially in Sub-Saharan African contexts. Digitisation, AI and Algorithms in African Journalism and Media Contexts moves the focus from the West, addressing the significant knowledge gaps relating to the current state of AI, algorithms and data-driven journalism, as well as the implications for political, social, cultural, markets, media viability and journalism education. This timely collection offers new knowledge on key issues surrounding automation and data-driven media and journalism practice in post-truth, post-human and post-Covid African contexts. It is a vital resource for researchers, educators, media students, academics, advocacy groups, media practitioners, developers and policy makers, both in African countries and internationally.Table of ContentsForward; Martin Ndlela Part I: AI and Algorithms in Journalism and media practice Chapter 1. Towards automated fact-checking in Africa: the experience with artificial intelligence at Africa Check; Irene Larraz Chapter 2. Between Utopia and dystopia: Investigating journalism perceptions of AI deployment in Community media newsrooms in South Africa; Blessing Makwambeni,Trust Matsilele, and John G Bulani Chapter 3. AI and the algorithmic-turn in journalism practice in Eastern Africa: perceptions, practice and challenges; Carol Azungi Dralega Chapter 4. New challenges old tactics: How Uganda Newsrooms combat Fake news; Florence Namasinga Selnes, Gerald Walulya, and Ivan Nathaniel Lukanda Chapter 5. Newsday and the Herald’s inclusion of disabled people in the use of digital media in Zimbabwe; Witness Roya and Sandiso Ngcobo Part II: Policy, Governance, Indigenization of Digital Innovation and Critical literacies Chapter 6. A comparative study of AI policy frameworks on Journalism practice in sub-Saharan Africa; Carol Azungi Dralega, Wise Kwame Osei,Daniel Kudakwashe Mpala, Gezahgn Berhie Kidanu, Bai Santigie Kanu, and Amia Pamela Chapter 7. Analysis of Facebook and Twitter usage in Ghana’s 2020 presidential and Parliamentary elections; Kodwo Jonas Anson Boateng and Redeemer Buatsi Chapter 8. Conceptualizing data-driven journalism and the quest for good governance in Nigeria; Toyosi Olugbenga Samson Owolabi and reheemat Adeniran Chapter 9. Technology Indigenisation and Popularisation for Life Transformation in East Africa; Margaret Jjuuko and Emmanuel Munyarukumbuzi Chapter 10. An agenda for developing critical literacies for journalism education in an era of datafication; Carol Azungi Dralega
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine
Book SynopsisThis timely Handbook provides an essential guide to the major topics, perspectives, and scholars in the sociology of health and medicine. Contributors prove the immense value of a sociological understanding of central health and medical concerns, including public health, the COVID-19 pandemic, and new medical technologies.Through critically analysing the wide variety of approaches taken by sociologists of health and medicine, this Handbook explores what makes the field distinctive. Chapters cover the full human life span and review key theoretical viewpoints as well as significant empirical themes, drawing on cutting-edge research. The diverse selection of contributors offer insights into important areas of health and medical development including precision medicine, epidemics and pandemics, data-intensive medicine, AI, neuroscience, and future hospitals. The chapters also examine the implications of COVID-19 across various domains of health, medicine, and healthcare.Covering key questions, debates, and emerging perspectives, this Handbook will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars in sociology, public health, and science and technology studies. It will also be an important guide for policymakers and practitioners seeking to develop effective health policies and programs.Trade Review‘The Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine is an outstanding resource, unpacking and exploring classic and contemporary perspectives in health sociology. Spanning enduring issues such as (bio)medicalisation right through to the more recent digital and affective turns, it contains fresh and critical contributions by an illustrious group of scholars who lead the field globally. Artfully balancing conceptual and empirical concerns, this Handbook will be essential reading for students and researchers interested in health, illness and care.’ -- Alex Broom, University of Sydney, Australia‘This Handbook is a triumph! Leading scholars contribute chapters on classic and contemporary sociological theories, substantive topics in health and medicine, and key concepts inter alia biomedicalization, digitisation, emotion, embodiment, inequality, narratives, and risk. This text is a must for students and scholars who are studying and researching matters of health, illness, and medicine.’ -- Sarah Nettleton, University of York, UK‘This timely Handbook is an ecumenical collection of essays from respected international colleagues, from Australasia, the UK, Canada and the US, and Scandinavia, each with refreshingly different perspectives and priorities. It covers a broad range of problems, levels of analysis, theoretical views, and methods, and draws upon and will be useful for knowledge workers in related disciplines like philosophy, epidemiology, healthcare policy, social psychology, anthropology, and ethics.’ -- John B. McKinlay, retired Professor of Sociology, Boston University, US‘In this wide-ranging collection of essays, leading international authors present evidence and analysis of key topics in medical sociology. A major addition to the field - especially relevant at a time of upheaval in global health and society. An essential guide for all students and researchers in health and illness.’ -- Mike Bury, Royal Holloway, University of London, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine 1 Alan Petersen PART I MAJOR THEORETICAL INFLUENCES AND PERSPECTIVES 2 Constructing the boundaries of health sociology 28 Fran Collyer 3 Critical theories in sociologies of health and medicine 47 Graham Scambler 4 New materialist perspectives on health, illness and health care 62 Nick J. Fox 5 Sociologies of health and gender 76 Ellen Annandale 6 Biomedicalisation revisited: concepts and practices 91 Adele E. Clarke, Melanie Jeske, Janet K. Shim, and Laura Mamo 7 Health inequalities 110 Kevin Dew and Sarah Donovan 8 Illness narratives: from analysis to answerability 124 Danielle Spencer and Arthur Frank PART II SIGNIFICANT EMPIRICAL RESEARCH THEMES 9 Young people and the sociology of chronic illness: meanings, management and consequences 139 Jonathan Gabe and Lee F. Monaghan 10 The sociology of mental health and illness 151 Joan Busfield 11 Pharmaceuticalisation: origins, drivers and new developments 170 Jonathan Gabe and Paul Martin 12 Sociological approaches to the gendering of emotions in health and illness 187 Gillian Bendelow and Alison Phipps 13 Sociology of the medical profession and para-professions 199 Will Schupmann and Stefan Timmermans 14 Health, society and social suffering 213 Iain Wilkinson 15 Sociologies of food and eating 227 Anne Murcott 16 Diagnosis 243 Annemarie Jutel 17 The media politics of health, illness and healthcare 257 Alison Anderson 18 The sociology of bioethics 274 Raymond De Vries 19 Antimicrobial resistance: discourse, practice and relating 291 Nik Brown 20 Sociologies of public health and health promotion 308 Judith Green and Cristian Montenegro 21 Risk and health 324 Andy Alaszewski 22 Ageing 339 Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard 23 Racism and racialisation in healthcare settings 354 Sarah Hamed and Hannah Bradby 24 Disability and the sociology of health and illness 378 Gareth M. Thomas 25 Sociology of the pregnant and birthing body 393 Mandie Scamell and Andy Alaszewski 26 Sleep, health and medicine: sociological agendas 408 Simon J. Williams, Catherine Coveney and Robert Meadows 27 Sociological contributions to the study of death in health and medicine 424 Glenys Caswell PART III EMERGING TOPICS AND PERSPECTIVES 28 Sociologies of precision medicine 439 Barbara Prainsack 29 The sociology of epidemics and pandemics 455 Robert Dingwall 30 Data-intensive medicine 474 Klaus Hoeyer 31 Artificial intelligence for long-term care in later life 488 Barbara Barbosa Neves and Maho Omori 32 Digital health: practices and infrastructures 504 Benjamin Marent and Henriette Langstrup 33 Neuroscience, novelty, and the sociology of the brain 525 Martyn Pickersgill 34 Hospitals of the future 541 John Gardner Index 555
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Cost-Benefit Analysis and Dementia: New
Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking book expertly brings together the many effective dementia interventions to reduce the symptoms of this debilitating condition and also, for the first time, a Cost-Benefit Analysis of those interventions to establish whether the benefits outweigh the costs. Focussing on new interventions such as years of education, medicare eligibility, hearing aids and vision correction, Robert Brent also takes an innovative look at the need to reduce elder abuse and initiate an international convention for human rights. Cost-Benefit Analysis and Dementia takes an insightful look at dementia by using a behavioural definition and explaining how the symptoms can affect daily life activities, rather than just using the medical definition. It examines the causality of dementia interventions to establish their effectiveness, dealing with the risk factors and expanding the current list of interventions. Furthermore, it provides an in-depth three-step procedure for evaluating the monetary benefits of those interventions to establish whether these are found to be socially worthwhile. Written in a comprehensive, yet accessible style, this book will be an excellent resource for economists interested in the Cost-Benefit Analysis of dementia care. Healthcare professionals and policymakers as well as non-professionals will find the different interventions discussed to reduce symptoms of dementia illuminating and informative.Trade Review‘The book offers a fascinating paradigm to reflect upon dementia interventions, promising to widen the lens of interested governments, public health and policy makers, as well as clinicians alike. By interlinking concepts of protecting human rights, preventing elder abuse, caring for persons living with dementia, all contributing to improving global health and economy, this book offers a solid rationale for an international United Nations convention on the human rights for older persons.’ -- Kiran Rabheru, University of Ottawa, Canada‘Robert Brent’s Cost-Benefit Analysis and Dementia provides a comprehensive and accessible examination of how economic tools can assist in making interventions for dementia more effective. Using state-of-the-art economic methods, Brent examines a broad range of efforts ranging from the role of Medicare eligibility to the importance of vision correction and hearing aids. Despite the rigorous attention to the costs and benefits of alternative policies, the book does not lose sight of concerns such as advocacy of broader protections for the human rights of those with dementia.’ -- W. Kip Viscusi, Vanderbilt Law School, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I INTRODUCTION 1. Introduction to dementia, Cost-Benefit Analysis, and the new interventions 2. Measuring dementia symptoms PART II THE COST-BENEFIT ANALYSES 3. Years of education 4. Medicare eligibility 5. Hearing aids 6. Vision correction 7. Avoiding nursing homes PART III PUBLIC POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF DEMENTIA INTERVENTIONS 8. Elder abuse 9. Human rights Index
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