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Rutgers University Press Fault Lines of Care Gender HIV and Global Health
Book SynopsisHeckert provides a detailed examination of the effects of global health and governmental policy decisions on the everyday lives of people living with HIV in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. She focuses on the gendered dynamics that play a role in the development and implementation of HIV care programs and shows how decisions made from above impact what happens on the ground. Trade Review“Fault Lines of Care is a remarkable book of the type many of us strive for: a finely grained, moving ethnography that articulates the nature of the broad interactions among individual, community, state-level, and global dynamics in the domain of international HIV/AIDS care. Heckert is a lucid, evocative writer and frankly, I found the book hard to put down.” -- Carole H. Browner * coauthor of Neurogenetic Diagnoses, the Power of Hope, and the Limits of Today’s Medicine *“Carina Heckert’s evocative and wrenching ethnography, Fault Lines of Care, conveys the frustrating and at times deadly entanglements of global health agendas with the intimate lived experiences of people living with HIV/ AIDS in resource poor communities in Bolivia. Heckert invites readers on an emotionally-charged journey through her interlocutors’ intimate and social experiences of seeking care for HIV/AIDS and ultimately their struggles for survival. This ethnographically rich rendering is an important contribution to our understanding of how people’s experiences of chronic disease interact with the biopolitical contours of inequality and poverty, in Bolivia and globally.” -- Nia Parson * author of Traumatic States: Gendered Violence, Suffering, and Care in Chile *"Chronicle of Higher Education Weekly Book List," by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *"As a case study in global health strategy, [Bolivia] is a useful example because of the often unexpected ways in which local politics, societal structures, and culture interact to undermine efforts to combat the HIV epidemic." * The Lancet *"Heckert writes in an engaging and accessible style and clearly explains her theoretical approach to understanding her ethnographic data. She nicely balances her discussion of the historical, social, and political context of HIV care with case studies of HIV-positive people doing their best to navigate the healthcare system and make decisions about when and how to access care." * American Journal of Human Biology *"Comprehensive and impressively written." * The Latin Americanist *"Fault Lines of Care offers a thoughtful examination of an HIV epidemic....This book offers an excellent resource for undergraduate and graduate courses in medical anthropology and health sciences. It poses important questions for future researchers to consider, including why our stubborn reliance on metrics and disease-specific approaches to global health care persist." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *Table of Contents1. Fault Lines 2. Decolonizing Bolivia 3. When Care is a “Systematic Route of Torture” 4. Aiding Women 5. Synergistic Silences 6. Blaming Machismo 7. The Biopolitical Drama of HIV Funding 8. Decolonizing Global Health Bibliography Notes Index Acknowledgments
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Rutgers University Press Fault Lines of Care Gender HIV and Global Health
Book SynopsisHeckert provides a detailed examination of the effects of global health and governmental policy decisions on the everyday lives of people living with HIV in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. She focuses on the gendered dynamics that play a role in the development and implementation of HIV care programs and shows how decisions made from above impact what happens on the ground. Trade Review“Fault Lines of Care is a remarkable book of the type many of us strive for: a finely grained, moving ethnography that articulates the nature of the broad interactions among individual, community, state-level, and global dynamics in the domain of international HIV/AIDS care. Heckert is a lucid, evocative writer and frankly, I found the book hard to put down.” -- Carole H. Browner * coauthor of Neurogenetic Diagnoses, the Power of Hope, and the Limits of Today’s Medicine *“Carina Heckert’s evocative and wrenching ethnography, Fault Lines of Care, conveys the frustrating and at times deadly entanglements of global health agendas with the intimate lived experiences of people living with HIV/ AIDS in resource poor communities in Bolivia. Heckert invites readers on an emotionally-charged journey through her interlocutors’ intimate and social experiences of seeking care for HIV/AIDS and ultimately their struggles for survival. This ethnographically rich rendering is an important contribution to our understanding of how people’s experiences of chronic disease interact with the biopolitical contours of inequality and poverty, in Bolivia and globally.” -- Nia Parson * author of Traumatic States: Gendered Violence, Suffering, and Care in Chile *"Chronicle of Higher Education Weekly Book List," by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *"As a case study in global health strategy, [Bolivia] is a useful example because of the often unexpected ways in which local politics, societal structures, and culture interact to undermine efforts to combat the HIV epidemic." * The Lancet *"Heckert writes in an engaging and accessible style and clearly explains her theoretical approach to understanding her ethnographic data. She nicely balances her discussion of the historical, social, and political context of HIV care with case studies of HIV-positive people doing their best to navigate the healthcare system and make decisions about when and how to access care." * American Journal of Human Biology *"Comprehensive and impressively written." * The Latin Americanist *"Fault Lines of Care offers a thoughtful examination of an HIV epidemic....This book offers an excellent resource for undergraduate and graduate courses in medical anthropology and health sciences. It poses important questions for future researchers to consider, including why our stubborn reliance on metrics and disease-specific approaches to global health care persist." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *Table of Contents1. Fault Lines 2. Decolonizing Bolivia 3. When Care is a “Systematic Route of Torture” 4. Aiding Women 5. Synergistic Silences 6. Blaming Machismo 7. The Biopolitical Drama of HIV Funding 8. Decolonizing Global Health Bibliography Notes Index Acknowledgments
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Rutgers University Press When the Air Became Important A Social History
Book SynopsisJanet Greenlees examines the working environments of the heartlands of the British and American cotton textile industries from the nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. She contends that the air quality within these pioneering workplaces was a key contributor to the health of the wider communities of which they were a part.Trade Review"This is a promising, important, and long-awaited project—the first comparative history of industry-related hazards in the United States and Britain. The author has synthesized a vast body of research, much of it her own original work. At once comprehensive and selective, When the Air Became Important is illuminating scholarship." -- Chris Sellers * Stony Brook University *"In this truly comparative social and environmental history of air pollution, Greenlees deftly weaves public health, regulatory politics and labor relations into a prescient reminder that protecting workers from hazardous workplaces remains a pressing issue on a global scale." -- Graham Mooney * Johns Hopkins University, and author of Instrusive Interventions: Public Health, Domestic Space, and *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations List of Tables List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction – When does the air in the workplace become important? 2 Textile town and mill environments 3 Tuberculosis in the factory 4 “I used to feel ill with it:” Heat, humidity and fatigue 5 Dust: A New Socio-Environmental Relationship 6 “The noise were horrendous:” The ignored industrial hazard 7 Conclusion: When does the air become important? Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Children as Caregivers The Global Fight against
Book SynopsisIn Zambia, due to the rise of TB and the connected HIV epidemic, a large number of children have experienced the illness or death of at least one parent. This study examines how well intentioned practitioners fail to realise that children take on active caregiving roles when their guardians become seriously ill and demonstrates why understanding children's care is crucial for global health policy.Trade Review"Hunleth presents a moving, yet clear-eyed, account of children's hitherto unacknowledged caregiving in the tuberculosis and HIV epidemic. Children as Caregivers is a spectacular demonstration of the vital importance of detailed ethnography for policy development." -- Anthony Simpson * author of Boys to Men in the Shadow of AIDS: Masculinities and HIV Risk in Zambia *"Children as Caregivers offers a very interesting insight on how discourses on prevention, care, and welfare in the context of infectious diseases should not ignore the specific contribution provided by children." * The Lancet *"Children as Caregivers is a rare and timely ethnographic study of childhood and illness. Readers interested in expanding their knowledge of critical global health, infectious disease, and kinship politics will find tremendous value in this book. As a testament to ethnography’s value in the social sciences, Children as Caregivers provides researchers with new, creative methods on how to capture children’s voices and experiences, in all their complexity." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Children's Carework in a Global Pandemic: Anthropology of Childhood and Infectious Disease" interview with Jean Hunleth https://culanth.org/fieldsights/childrens-carework-in-a-global-pandemic-anthropology-of-childhood-and-infectious-disease * AnthroPod *"Hunleth presents a moving, yet clear-eyed, account of children's hitherto unacknowledged caregiving in the tuberculosis and HIV epidemic. Children as Caregivers is a spectacular demonstration of the vital importance of detailed ethnography for policy development." -- Anthony Simpson * author of Boys to Men in the Shadow of AIDS: Masculinities and HIV Risk in Zambia *"Children as Caregivers offers a very interesting insight on how discourses on prevention, care, and welfare in the context of infectious diseases should not ignore the specific contribution provided by children." * The Lancet *"Children as Caregivers is a rare and timely ethnographic study of childhood and illness. Readers interested in expanding their knowledge of critical global health, infectious disease, and kinship politics will find tremendous value in this book. As a testament to ethnography’s value in the social sciences, Children as Caregivers provides researchers with new, creative methods on how to capture children’s voices and experiences, in all their complexity." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Children's Carework in a Global Pandemic: Anthropology of Childhood and Infectious Disease" interview with Jean Hunleth https://culanth.org/fieldsights/childrens-carework-in-a-global-pandemic-anthropology-of-childhood-and-infectious-disease * AnthroPod *Table of Contents Introduction 1. Growing Up in George 2. Residence and Relationships 3. Between Silence and Disclosure 4. Following the Medicine 5. Care by Women and Children 6. Children and Global Health Postscript: Childhood Tuberculosis Notes References Index
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MW - Rutgers University Press Children as Caregivers The Global Fight Against Tuberculosis and HIV in Zambia Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
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Rutgers University Press Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin
Book SynopsisTransnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work documents the social and emotional contributions of older persons to their families in settings shaped by migration, their everyday lives in domestic and community spaces, and in the context of intergenerational relationships and diasporas. Trade Review"These thought-provoking, poetic, critical, nuanced, heartbreaking, and diverse accounts of older people's complex roles in transnational 'kin-work' provide an important and understudied contribution to the wider field of Aging Studies." -- Annette Leibing * professor of medical anthropology at the Université de Montréal *“This book is bursting with engaging ethnographic and theoretical contributions from across the world and life course. It’s indisputable: aging and kin-work are critical frames for understanding transnational connections, disruptions, and meaning-making in today’s precarious global economy.” -- Caitrin Lynch * author of Retirement on the Line: Age, Work, and Value in an American Factory *"An indispensable contribution to research on transnationalism, family relations and aging and a must read for anyone working on these topics. Apart from providing various ethnographic writings from different authors that describe their findings nuanced and rich in detail, the book enables the reader to gain new perspectives into the lives of aging migrants." * Anthropology News *"Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work reminds us of the importance of kinship studies in anthropology, making visible the notion of 'kin work,' that hitherto remained underexplored in transnational and aging studies....An essential and accessible book for academics in the social, human, and public policy sciences, as well as for any researcher or student who seeks to deepen their insights into the everyday processes of aging and care in transnational contexts." * Anthropology & Aging *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin WorkParin Dossa and Cati Coe Part One: The Kin-scription of Older People into Care1. Flexible Kin Work, Flexible Migration: Aging Migrants Caught between Productive and Reproductive Labor in the European UnionNeda Deneva2. The New Aging Trajectories of Chinese Grandparents in CanadaYanqiu Rachel Zhou3. Sacrifice or Abandonment? Nicaraguan Grandmothers’ Narratives of Migration as Kin WorkKristin Elizabeth Yarris Part Two: Reconfigurations of Kinship and Care in Migration Contexts4. Fostering Change: Elderly Foster Mothers’ Intergenerational Influence in Contemporary ChinaErin L. Raffety5. Negotiating Sacred Values: Dharma, Karma, and Migrant Hindu WomenMushira Mohsin Khan and Karen Kobayashi6. Transformations in Transnational Aging: A Century of Caring among Italians in AustraliaLoretta Baldassar Part Three: Aging, Kin Work, and Migrant Trajectories7. Returning Home: The Retirement Strategies of Aging Ghanaian Care WorkersCati Coe8. Balancing the Weight of Nations and Families Transnationally: The Case of Older Caribbean Canadian WomenDelores V. Mullings9. The Recognition and Denial of Kin Work in Palliative Care: Epitomizing Narratives of Canadian Ismaili MuslimsParin Dossa ReferencesAbout the ContributorsIndex
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Rutgers University Press Pyrrhic Progress The History of Antibiotics in
Book SynopsisMass-introduced after 1945, antibiotics helped revolutionize post-war agriculture, but food producers soon became dependent on routine antibiotic use to sustain and increase production. Pyrrhic Progress analyses over half a century of antibiotic use, regulation, and resistance in US and British food production.Trade Review"This is a great book! Essential reading for anyone concerned about the rise in antibiotics and resistance: Kirchhelle’s carefully researched text reveals the back-stories of antibiotics and farming.” -- Clare Chandler * Professor in Medical Anthropology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine *"Kirchhelle reveals both the local contexts and the global consequences of the historical relationship between antibiotics and food production. Beautifully written and exhaustively researched, this is a crucial work for understanding how we evaluate and react to 'risks' more broadly." -- Scott Podolsky * Harvard Medical School, author of The Antibiotic Era: Reform, Resistance, and the Pursuit of a Ratio *"Pyrrhic Progress is an excellent work of scholarship that makes important, path-breaking contributions to the history of agriculture, pharmaceuticals, politics, and policymaking in the United States and Britain in the post-World War II era. The connection between guarding against and preparing for antimicrobial resistance and climate change is fantastic, and no other work has examined these important issues as exhaustively." -- Kendra Smith-Howard * author of Pure and Modern Milk: An Environmental History since 1900 *"Antibiotics fueled a great leap forward in food production in the twentieth century, but the price of that progress in terms of potential drug resistant infections was known from the start. This timely historical analysis shows us why previous warnings went unheeded and, in the current climate of concern over a post-antibiotic future, how a history of public discourse can provide salient lessons for one this century’s most pressing issues." -- Steve Hinchliffe * University of Exeter, author of Pathological Lives *"A thorough, critical review of the use of antimicrobials in the US and British agricultural industries since the turn of the 20th century, examining the effects on production volume and quality from the perspective of three spheres of interest: agricultural. regulatory, and public....Highly recommended." * Choice *"Provides a much-needed and painstakingly researched history of the nonhuman use of antibiotics in live‐ stock production and the professional turf wars and policy debates that have followed their use in farming since the 1940s....Pyrrhic Progress adds to a growing literature on the chemical revolution that has trans‐ formed modern agriculture and the environment more broadly. It adds to a vibrant literature on animal studies which is bringing down conceptual walls that falsely divide the history of humans from that of other animals." * H-Net *"This is an impressive, well-researched, and crucial contribution to the histories of science, technology, medicine, agriculture and policymaking. In the context of our current moment, it helps illuminate the importance and cultural specificity of risk communication work in the wake of both accelerated and slow building health crises." * The English Historical Review *"Provides crucial insight into the historical complexity of risk regimes and their consequences with regard to antibiotic use in livestock farming." * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *"With Pyrrhic Progress, Kirchhelle is delivering on its promise to provide the first detailed, and often thrilling, historiographical analysis of the use of antibiotics in animal health. If we may be surprised at the choice of leaving aside international organizations - the three 'sisters' that are the WHO (World Health Organization), the FAO and the OIE (Word organization for animal health) having played an important role - this absence ultimately opens up new horizons for social scientists interested in veterinary antibiotics and AMR. For them, as for those involved in the field more generally, this book promises to become an essential reference." * Études Rurales *“The meticulous work done by Kirchhelle is certainly commendable: the book stimulates the reader imagination for developing further stories and historical investigations of farmed antibiotics that would be more-than-Western, more-than-elitist and more-than-human.” -- Camille Bellet * Agricultural History Review *“Detailed, ambitious, and enormously capable of explaining the economic, political, industrial, and agricultural cultures relevant to the use of antibiotics in the production of animals for human consumption. Kirchhelle's book is very useful [and] a very interesting contribution on the trajectory of consumer society.” -- María Jesús Santesmases * Dynamis *"Kirchhelle’s study achieves a considerable and important feat, adding an innovative comprehensive framework, which integrates the production and perception of risks across human and animal medicine as well as across two key countries, to the historiography of antibiotics, technological consequences, and risks." -- Lucas M. Mueller * Technology and Culture *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations 1. The Sound of Coughing PigsPart I. USA: From Industrialized Agriculture to Manufactured Hazards, 1949-1967 2. Picking One's Poisons: Antibiotics and the Public 3. Chemical Cornucopia: Antibiotics on the Farm 4. Toxic Priorities: ANtibiotics and the FDAPart II. Britain: From Rationing to Gluttony, 1945-1969 5. Fusing Concerns: Antibiotics and the British Public 6. Bigger, Better, Faster: Antibiotics and British Farming 7. Typing Resistence: Antibiotic Regulation in BritainPart III. USA: The Problem of Plenty, 1967-2013 8. Marketplace Environmentalism: Antibiotics, Public Concerns, and Consumer Solutions 9. Light-Green Reform: Antibiotic Change on American Farms 10. Statutory Defeat: Voluntarism and the Limits of FDA PowerPart IV Britain: From Gluttony to Fear, 1970-2018 11. Between Swann Patriotism and BSE: Antibiotics in the Public Sphere 12. Persistent Infrastructures: Antibiotic Reform and British Farming 13. Swann Song: British Antibiotic Policy After 1969 Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Pyrrhic Progress The History of Antibiotics in
Book SynopsisMass-introduced after 1945, antibiotics helped revolutionize post-war agriculture, but food producers soon became dependent on routine antibiotic use to sustain and increase production. Pyrrhic Progress analyses over half a century of antibiotic use, regulation, and resistance in US and British food production.Trade Review"This is a great book! Essential reading for anyone concerned about the rise in antibiotics and resistance: Kirchhelle’s carefully researched text reveals the back-stories of antibiotics and farming.” -- Clare Chandler * Professor in Medical Anthropology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine *"Kirchhelle reveals both the local contexts and the global consequences of the historical relationship between antibiotics and food production. Beautifully written and exhaustively researched, this is a crucial work for understanding how we evaluate and react to 'risks' more broadly." -- Scott Podolsky * Harvard Medical School, author of The Antibiotic Era: Reform, Resistance, and the Pursuit of a Ratio *"Pyrrhic Progress is an excellent work of scholarship that makes important, path-breaking contributions to the history of agriculture, pharmaceuticals, politics, and policymaking in the United States and Britain in the post-World War II era. The connection between guarding against and preparing for antimicrobial resistance and climate change is fantastic, and no other work has examined these important issues as exhaustively." -- Kendra Smith-Howard * author of Pure and Modern Milk: An Environmental History since 1900 *"Antibiotics fueled a great leap forward in food production in the twentieth century, but the price of that progress in terms of potential drug resistant infections was known from the start. This timely historical analysis shows us why previous warnings went unheeded and, in the current climate of concern over a post-antibiotic future, how a history of public discourse can provide salient lessons for one this century’s most pressing issues." -- Steve Hinchliffe * University of Exeter, author of Pathological Lives *"A thorough, critical review of the use of antimicrobials in the US and British agricultural industries since the turn of the 20th century, examining the effects on production volume and quality from the perspective of three spheres of interest: agricultural. regulatory, and public....Highly recommended." * Choice *"Provides a much-needed and painstakingly researched history of the nonhuman use of antibiotics in live‐ stock production and the professional turf wars and policy debates that have followed their use in farming since the 1940s....Pyrrhic Progress adds to a growing literature on the chemical revolution that has trans‐ formed modern agriculture and the environment more broadly. It adds to a vibrant literature on animal studies which is bringing down conceptual walls that falsely divide the history of humans from that of other animals." * H-Net *"This is an impressive, well-researched, and crucial contribution to the histories of science, technology, medicine, agriculture and policymaking. In the context of our current moment, it helps illuminate the importance and cultural specificity of risk communication work in the wake of both accelerated and slow building health crises." * The English Historical Review *"Provides crucial insight into the historical complexity of risk regimes and their consequences with regard to antibiotic use in livestock farming." * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *"With Pyrrhic Progress, Kirchhelle is delivering on its promise to provide the first detailed, and often thrilling, historiographical analysis of the use of antibiotics in animal health. If we may be surprised at the choice of leaving aside international organizations - the three 'sisters' that are the WHO (World Health Organization), the FAO and the OIE (Word organization for animal health) having played an important role - this absence ultimately opens up new horizons for social scientists interested in veterinary antibiotics and AMR. For them, as for those involved in the field more generally, this book promises to become an essential reference." * Études Rurales *“The meticulous work done by Kirchhelle is certainly commendable: the book stimulates the reader imagination for developing further stories and historical investigations of farmed antibiotics that would be more-than-Western, more-than-elitist and more-than-human.” -- Camille Bellet * Agricultural History Review *“Detailed, ambitious, and enormously capable of explaining the economic, political, industrial, and agricultural cultures relevant to the use of antibiotics in the production of animals for human consumption. Kirchhelle's book is very useful [and] a very interesting contribution on the trajectory of consumer society.” -- María Jesús Santesmases * Dynamis *"Kirchhelle’s study achieves a considerable and important feat, adding an innovative comprehensive framework, which integrates the production and perception of risks across human and animal medicine as well as across two key countries, to the historiography of antibiotics, technological consequences, and risks." -- Lucas M. Mueller * Technology and Culture *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations 1. The Sound of Coughing PigsPart I. USA: From Industrialized Agriculture to Manufactured Hazards, 1949-1967 2. Picking One's Poisons: Antibiotics and the Public 3. Chemical Cornucopia: Antibiotics on the Farm 4. Toxic Priorities: ANtibiotics and the FDAPart II. Britain: From Rationing to Gluttony, 1945-1969 5. Fusing Concerns: Antibiotics and the British Public 6. Bigger, Better, Faster: Antibiotics and British Farming 7. Typing Resistence: Antibiotic Regulation in BritainPart III. USA: The Problem of Plenty, 1967-2013 8. Marketplace Environmentalism: Antibiotics, Public Concerns, and Consumer Solutions 9. Light-Green Reform: Antibiotic Change on American Farms 10. Statutory Defeat: Voluntarism and the Limits of FDA PowerPart IV Britain: From Gluttony to Fear, 1970-2018 11. Between Swann Patriotism and BSE: Antibiotics in the Public Sphere 12. Persistent Infrastructures: Antibiotic Reform and British Farming 13. Swann Song: British Antibiotic Policy After 1969 Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Watching Our Weights The Contradictions of
Book SynopsisWatching Our Weights explores the competing and contradictory fat representations on television that are related to weight-loss and health, medicalization and disease, and body positivity and fat acceptance. Melissa Zimdars establishes how television shapes our knowledge of fatness and how fatness helps us better understand contemporary television. Trade Review"Well-written and enjoyable to read, Watching Our Weights evaluates the various ways that fatness is portrayed on television. It will make an important contribution to popular culture studies in general and television studies specifically." -- Esther Rothblum * coeditor of The Fat Studies Reader *"Zimdars offers a gripping analysis of fat TV as a site for contesting meanings of health, fatness, and embodiment. Her examination of global trends in televising fatness is meticulously researched." -- Kathleen A. LeBesco * author of Revolting Bodies?: The Struggle to Redefine Fat Identity *"Well-written and enjoyable to read, Watching Our Weights evaluates the various ways that fatness is portrayed on television. It will make an important contribution to popular culture studies in general and television studies specifically." -- Esther Rothblum * coeditor of The Fat Studies Reader *"Zimdars offers a gripping analysis of fat TV as a site for contesting meanings of health, fatness, and embodiment. Her examination of global trends in televising fatness is meticulously researched." -- Kathleen A. LeBesco * author of Revolting Bodies?: The Struggle to Redefine Fat Identity *Table of ContentsContents 1 Televising Fatness 2 Competing Understandings of Fatness 3 Does TV Make You Fat?: Television as Causing and Solving the “Obesity Epidemic” 4 The Globesity Epidemic: Adapting Weight-Loss Television Around the World 5 Exercising Control and the Illogics of Weight-Loss Television 6 Spectacle, Sympathy, and the Medicalized Disease of “Obesity” 7 Celebrating Large Bodies on the Small Screen: From Fat Visibility to Fat Acceptance 8 The Decline of The Biggest Loser Acknowledgments Index
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Rutgers University Press Pathogenic Policing Immigration Enforcement and
Book SynopsisIn Pathogenic Policing, Nolan Kline focuses on the hidden, health-related impacts of immigrant policing to examine the role of policy in shaping health inequality in the U.S., and responds to fundamental questions regarding biopolitics, especially the ways in which policy can reinforce ‘race’ as a vehicle of social division.Trade Review“Pathogenic Policing tells an important story that we all need to hear. The pipeline from local policing to deportation does not just remove unauthorized immigrants for petty traffic offenses. It frightens them, their families, and neighborhoods—indeed, this is a major cause of family separation—leading to self-denial of needed health care, a serious burden on communities. Kline’s explanation of these connections is clear, well-supported, and passionate; this is a vital book.” -- Josiah Heyman * co-editor of The U.S.-Mexico Transborder Region: Cultural Dynamics and Historical Interactions *“Attrition through enforcement has become the dominant response to the presence of unauthorized immigrants in the United States. Nolan Kline, through careful ethnographic exploration of the situation in Georgia, reveals the many negative impacts of this approach, not just on immigrants, but on American society as a whole. Told from the first-hand perspective of a participant observer, this book is a cri de coeur.” -- Doris Marie Provine * co-author of Policing Immigrants: Local Law Enforcement on the Front Lines *"This ethnography compels us to pay close attention to the multiple layers of immigration enforcement that mark the current moment, to recognize how policing reaches beyond any one encounter, and to consider what forms of community we hope to foster. Kline reveals how policing directly threatens the health and well-being of immigrants and their loved ones, and, in the end, erodes rights for all." -- Deborah A. Boehm * author of Returned: Going and Coming in an Age of Deportation *"Recommended." * Choice *Cohesively argued and well-written, Pathogenic Policing will make a valuable addition to courses in medical anthropology, public health, and migration, among others. More broadly, its timely lessons on the public health consequences of racist policing have important implications for anti-racist social movements and public policy alike. As the controversial relationship between policing and public safety (or endangerment) commands international attention, Pathogenic Policing advances a prescient and robustly evidenced argument for the incompatibility of racist law enforcement and community well-being." * Journal of Latin and American and Caribbean Anthropology *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Introduction: “They Will Stop You” How Did We Get Here? Immigrant Policing in the United States Inside the Statehouse: Legislators’ Perspectives on Georgia’s Immigration Laws “We Live Here in Fear:” Policing, Trauma, and a Shadow Medical System Immigrant Policing and Interpersonal Relationships “A Death by a Thousand Little Cuts:” Health Providers and Immigrant Policing Patient Dumping, Immigrant Policing, and Health Policy “Stand Up, Fight Back!” Notes Bibliography Index
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John Wiley & Sons Pathogenic Policing Immigration Enforcement and Health in the US South Medical Anthropology
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Rutgers University Press Cultural Anxieties Managing Migrant Suffering in
Book SynopsisA gripping ethnography about Centre Minkowska, a transcultural psychiatry clinic in Paris, France. From her unique position as both observer and staff member, anthropologist Stéphanie Larchanché explores the challenges of providing non-stigmatizing mental healthcare to migrants.Trade Review"Cultural Anxieties provides rich food for thought on a range of topics, but its greatest contribution lies in the book’s nuanced analysis of the distinctive approach to “cultural competence” undergirding Centre Minkowska’s work. A timely, fascinating, and vitally important ethnography that elegantly captures the heart of Centre Minkowska’s ethos as well as its distinct approach to cultural competence."— EuropeNow “Stéphanie Larchanché’s Cultural Anxieties is a timely and compelling account not only of contemporary French politics of mental health, difference, and migration, but also of a broad and pervasive sense of anxious living which informs and shape the institutional practices of care and cure in many Western liberal democracies. Larchanché is particularly well positioned – both as a medical anthropologist and as a therapist – to reflect upon the work of anxiety within and outside clinical settings, providing an important ethnography of the contemporary.” — Cristiana Giordano, author of Migrants in Translation: Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy "Cultural Anxieties offers a nuanced, thoughtful and engaged anthropological look at the management of cultural difference in a country where universalism is the national ideology. Taking the transcultural psychiatry clinic as a laboratory and a site of contestation, Larchanché refuses easy critiques, instead drawing attention to the difficult work of everyday care, and how it can build a politics of hospitality in the face of racism, injustice and inequality." — Miriam Ticktin, author of Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in FranceTable of ContentsForeword by Lenore Manderson List of Abbreviations / Glossary Introduction: Cultural Anxieties A Day at Centre Minkowska Part I The Context 1 A Genealogy of “Migrant Suffering” 2 Transcultural Practice at Centre Minkowska Part II Referral Narratives and Ethical Double-Binds 3 Cultural and Linguistic Difference as Obstacles to Care 4 Managing “Migrant Youth” Part III Ethical Deliberations 5 Enacting Cultural Competence 6 Psychotherapy at the Borderland 7 Beyond Anxieties: Praxis Conclusion Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Cultural Anxieties
Book SynopsisCultural Anxieties is a compelling ethnography about Centre Minkowska, a transcultural psychiatry clinic in Paris, France. From her unique position as both observer and staff member, Stéphanie Larchanché explores the challenges of providing non-stigmatizing mental healthcare to migrants, and she identifies practical routes for improving caregiving practices.Trade Review“Stéphanie Larchanché’s Cultural Anxieties is a timely and compelling account not only of contemporary French politics of mental health, difference, and migration, but also of a broad and pervasive sense of anxious living which informs and shape the institutional practices of care and cure in many Western liberal democracies. Larchanché is particularly well positioned – both as a medical anthropologist and as a therapist – to reflect upon the work of anxiety within and outside clinical settings, providing an important ethnography of the contemporary.” -- Cristiana Giordano * author of Migrants in Translation: Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy *"Cultural Anxieties offers a nuanced, thoughtful and engaged anthropological look at the management of cultural difference in a country where universalism is the national ideology. Taking the transcultural psychiatry clinic as a laboratory and a site of contestation, Larchanché refuses easy critiques, instead drawing attention to the difficult work of everyday care, and how it can build a politics of hospitality in the face of racism, injustice and inequality." -- Miriam Ticktin * author of Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France *"Cultural Anxieties provides rich food for thought on a range of topics, but its greatest contribution lies in the book’s nuanced analysis of the distinctive approach to “cultural competence” undergirding Centre Minkowska’s work. A timely, fascinating, and vitally important ethnography that elegantly captures the heart of Centre Minkowska’s ethos as well as its distinct approach to cultural competence." * EuropeNow *“Stéphanie Larchanché’s Cultural Anxieties is a timely and compelling account not only of contemporary French politics of mental health, difference, and migration, but also of a broad and pervasive sense of anxious living which informs and shape the institutional practices of care and cure in many Western liberal democracies. Larchanché is particularly well positioned – both as a medical anthropologist and as a therapist – to reflect upon the work of anxiety within and outside clinical settings, providing an important ethnography of the contemporary.” -- Cristiana Giordano * author of Migrants in Translation: Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy *"Cultural Anxieties offers a nuanced, thoughtful and engaged anthropological look at the management of cultural difference in a country where universalism is the national ideology. Taking the transcultural psychiatry clinic as a laboratory and a site of contestation, Larchanché refuses easy critiques, instead drawing attention to the difficult work of everyday care, and how it can build a politics of hospitality in the face of racism, injustice and inequality." -- Miriam Ticktin * author of Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France *"Cultural Anxieties provides rich food for thought on a range of topics, but its greatest contribution lies in the book’s nuanced analysis of the distinctive approach to “cultural competence” undergirding Centre Minkowska’s work. A timely, fascinating, and vitally important ethnography that elegantly captures the heart of Centre Minkowska’s ethos as well as its distinct approach to cultural competence." * EuropeNow *Table of ContentsForeword by Lenore Manderson List of Abbreviations / Glossary Introduction: Cultural Anxieties A Day at Centre Minkowska Part I The Context 1 A Genealogy of “Migrant Suffering” 2 Transcultural Practice at Centre Minkowska Part II Referral Narratives and Ethical Double-Binds 3 Cultural and Linguistic Difference as Obstacles to Care 4 Managing “Migrant Youth” Part III Ethical Deliberations 5 Enacting Cultural Competence 6 Psychotherapy at the Borderland 7 Beyond Anxieties: Praxis Conclusion Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index
£105.40
Rutgers University Press Medicine over Mind Mental Health Practice in the
Book SynopsisIn an era in which the medicalization of mental health troubles and treatment has been settled for several decades, little is known about how this biomedical framework affects practitioners’ experiences. This book explores how practitioners make sense of a field that has shifted rapidly in just a few decades.Trade Review"This is a compelling project. Too often sociologists assume that the blueprint laid out by the DSM is equivalent to practice. This colors our discussions of medicalization in general, perhaps leading us to overstate its reach and breadth and obscuring the ways it is negotiated in practice. By delving more deeply into these practices – and the reasoning behind them – Smith’s research has great potential to bring nuance to the discussion of medicalization. The book wants to go beneath our general discussions of medicalization to see how it plays out in practice. Through a comparison of three groups of clinicians, she reveals the distinct dilemmas clinicians face, as well as their responses to the prevailing paradigm in practice. These play out in often unanticipated ways." -- Owen Whooley * author of Knowledge in the Time of Cholera: The Struggle over American Medicine in the Nineteenth Ce *"Dena Smith provides us with an analysis of the medicalization of mental disorder, and its impact on the conceptions and treatments in psychiatry. Basing her work on 43 interviews with mental health professionals, Smith provides new insights on the role of medicalized perspectives on psychiatric work.” -- Peter Conrad * Brandeis University *"Highly recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsFrom meaning-making to medicalization Practitioner portraits and pathways to practice The promise of 'imperfect communication' and the 'prison' of rigid categorization : the DSM in practice Etiological considerations and the tools of the trade : the role of medication and talk therapy in practice The consequences of the biomedical model for practice and practitioners : psychodynamic therapy in a biomedical world Conclusion : the dangling conversation : ambiguity in mental health practice
£25.19
Rutgers University Press Medicine over Mind Mental Health Practice in the
Book SynopsisUsing interviews with forty-three practitioners in the New York City area, this book offers insight into how the medical model maintains its dominant role in mental health treatment. Smith explores how practitioners grapple with available treatment models, and make sense of a field that has shifted rapidly in just a few decades.Trade Review"This is a compelling project. Too often sociologists assume that the blueprint laid out by the DSM is equivalent to practice. This colors our discussions of medicalization in general, perhaps leading us to overstate its reach and breadth and obscuring the ways it is negotiated in practice. By delving more deeply into these practices – and the reasoning behind them – Smith’s research has great potential to bring nuance to the discussion of medicalization. The book wants to go beneath our general discussions of medicalization to see how it plays out in practice. Through a comparison of three groups of clinicians, she reveals the distinct dilemmas clinicians face, as well as their responses to the prevailing paradigm in practice. These play out in often unanticipated ways." — Owen Whooley, author of Knowledge in the Time of Cholera: The Struggle over American Medicine in the Nineteenth Ce "Highly recommended."— Choice "Dena Smith provides us with an analysis of the medicalization of mental disorder, and its impact on the conceptions and treatments in psychiatry. Basing her work on 43 interviews with mental health professionals, Smith provides new insights on the role of medicalized perspectives on psychiatric work.” — Peter Conrad, Brandeis UniversityTable of ContentsFrom meaning-making to medicalization Practitioner portraits and pathways to practice The promise of 'imperfect communication' and the 'prison' of rigid categorization : the DSM in practice Etiological considerations and the tools of the trade : the role of medication and talk therapy in practice The consequences of the biomedical model for practice and practitioners : psychodynamic therapy in a biomedical world Conclusion : the dangling conversation : ambiguity in mental health practice
£105.40
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Sobering Wisdom
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£18.00
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Reading Trauma Narratives The Contemporary Novel
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Reading Trauma Narratives is a perceptive, timely, and challenging work."" —J. Brooks Bouson, Loyola University of Chicago
£19.90
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Topography of Wellness How Health and
Book SynopsisOffers a chronological narrative of how six epidemics transformed the American urban landscape, reflecting changing views of the power of design, pathology of disease, and the epidemiology of the environment.Trade ReviewA substantial contribution to the field illustrating how public health and planning policies merged and supported each other after the Industrial Revolution, parted ways in the twentieth century, and have now remerged in tackling contemporary issues of health and the built environment. Carr draws on a myriad of sources, and the work represents sound and thorough scholarship." —Clare Cooper Marcus, University of California, Berkeley, author of Iona Dreaming: The Healing Power of Place"I cannot imagine a more perfect post-pandemic book. Public health provides the legal foundations for the architecture, landscape architecture, and planning professions in the United States. As a result, it is essential to understand the role that public health has played in shaping our cities. In The Topography of Wellness, Sara Jensen Carr provides a tour-de-force review and analysis of the checkered history of the contributions that public health and disease have played in designing and planning the American landscape." —Frederick Steiner, University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, author of Making Plans: How to Engage with Landscape, Design, and the Urban Environment
£28.45
New York University Press Biopolitics
Book SynopsisThe first systematic overview of the notion of biopolitics and its relevance in contemporary theoretical debateThe biological features of human beings are now measured, observed, and understood in ways never before thought possible, defining norms, establishing standards, and determining average values of human life. While the notion of biopolitics has been linked to everything from rational decision-making and the democratic organization of social life to eugenics and racism, Thomas Lemke offers the very first systematic overview of the history of the notion of biopolitics, exploring its relevance in contemporary theoretical debates and providing a much needed primer on the topic. Lemke explains that life has become an independent, objective and measurable factor as well as a collective reality that can be separated from concrete living beings and the singularity of individual experience. He shows how our understanding of the processes of life, the organizing of Trade ReviewWhat Lemkes final chapter makes plain, and what can thus be read back into the book on the whole...is that biopolitics is a coherent field of inquiry for future work in anthropology, sociology, science studies, and of course history and philosophy, and that it is such precisely because it is a field of inquiry, namely an arena for rigorous investigation and severe thought... This is a crucial task. Lemke is to be applauded for showing both its coherence and its needfulness. * Theory & Event *Thomas Lemke's Biopolitics: An Advanced Introductionis required reading for anyone interested in this concept. -- Carlos Novas * New Genetics and Society *[This book] advances an analytics of 'biopolitics' as a 'prospective' methodological approach, offering a number of valuable and provocative questions to guide future research. * Foucault Studies *Lemke (Goethe Univ., Germany) offers an overview of biopolitics and an account of its relevance in theoretical debate... Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword by Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore Preface Introduction 1 Life as the Basis of Politics 2 Life as an Object of Politics 3 The Government of Living Beings: Michel Foucault 4 Sovereign Power and Bare Life: Giorgio Agamben 5 Capitalism and the Living Multitude: Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri 6 The Disappearance and Transformation of Politics 7 The End and Reinvention of Nature 8 Vital Politics and Bioeconomy 9 Prospect: An Analytics of Biopolitics Notes References Index About the Author
£18.99
New York University Press Against Health
Book SynopsisNavigates the divergent cultural meanings of health, and its entanglement with morality in current political discourseYou see someone smoking a cigarette and say,Smoking is bad for your health, when what you mean is, You are a bad person because you smoke. You encounter someone whose body size you deem excessive, and say, Obesity is bad for your health, when what you mean is, You are lazy, unsightly, or weak of will. You see a woman bottle-feeding an infant and say,Breastfeeding is better for that child's health, when what you mean is that the woman must be a bad parent. You see the smokers, the overeaters, the bottle-feeders, and affirm your own health in the process. In these and countless other instances, the perception of your own health depends in part on your value judgments about others, and appealing to health allows for a set of moral assumptions to fly stealthily under the radar.Against Health argues that health is a concept, a norm, and a set of Trade Review[T]his collection of essays reexamines the definition of & health, particularly as a mechanism for moral judgment... Lots of food for thought- this highly philosophical book... will be of interest to those wanting to stretch their views on health care. * Library Journal *These essays are well-researched and supported, and this volume is suitable for academic studyin sociology, bioethics public health and public policy. It is also remarkably well written and engaging, and makes its sophisticated theoretical premises readily accessible to a wide audience. -- Lisa Bellatoni * Metapsychology Reviews *This book provides a strong antidote to the common notion that health is an unqualified good and often an individual responsibility. -- Peter Conrad * Sociology of Health & Illness *From obesity to mental health to pharmacology, the essays explore the ways in which "public" health translates increasingly as a moral judgement of behavior. * Society Magazine *A powerful group of essays, and the topics addressed in the respective chapters are interesting, insightful, and thought-provoking. -- David Serlin,author of Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America[A]n important new book. * Psychology Today *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introduction: Why "Against Health"? Jonathan M. MetzlPart I: What Is Health, Anyway? 2 What Is Health and How Do You Get It? Richard Klein 3 Risky Bigness: On Obesity, Eating, and the Ambiguity of "Health" Lauren Berlant 4 Against Global Health? Arbitrating Science, Non-Science, and Nonsense through Health Vincanne Adams Part II: Seeing Health through Morality 5 The Social Immorality of Health in the Gene Age: Race, Disability, and Inequality Dorothy Roberts 6 Fat Panic and the New Morality Kathleen LeBesco 7 Against Breastfeeding (Sometimes) Joan B. WolfPart III: Making Health and Disease 8 Pharmaceutical Propaganda Carl Elliott 9 The Strangely Passive-Aggressive History of Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder Christopher Lane 10 Obsession: Against Mental Health Lennard J. Davis 11 Atomic Health, or How The Bomb Altered American Notions of Death Joseph MascoPart IV: Pleasure and Pain after Health 12 How Much Sex Is Healthy? The Pleasures of Asexuality Eunjung Kim 13 Be Prepared S. Lochlann Jain 14 In the Name of Pain Tobin Siebers 15 Conclusion: What Next? Anna Kirkland About the Contributors Index
£55.25
University of Arizona Press Global Indigenous Health
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£32.21
University of Minnesota Press Body and Soul The Black Panther Party and the
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn Body and Soul, Alondra Nelson combines careful research, deep political insight, and passionate commitment to tell the little-known story of the Black Panther Party's health activism in the late 1960s. In doing so, and in showing how the problems of poverty, discrimination, and access to medical care remain hauntingly similar more than forty years later, Nelson reminds us that the struggle continues, particularly for African Americans, and that social policies have profound moral implications.—Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta LacksThis book is a revelation. Alondra Nelson uncovers two remarkable histories in Body and Soul. First, she provides the deep context for our current conversation about the health disparities that plague the African-American community and that are, as she puts it, ‘quite literally sickening.’ Second, she adds immeasurably to our knowledge of the Black Panther Party, complicating its commonplace designation as a radical, militant organization to unearth its dedication and hard work in advocating for and providing equal and quality health care for even the most underserved African Americans. Nelson is the first scholar I know of to bring these two histories into dialogue with each other, and she does so with spectacular results. This is a tremendously important book.—Henry Louis Gates Jr., Harvard UniversityThe activities of the Black Panther Party have long been reduced to stories of violent police confrontations and empty propaganda. By taking seriously the claims and the practices of the Black Panthers with respect to the health of Black people, Alondra Nelson has provided a critical corrective to earlier studies. More importantly, this is a brilliant analysis of a significant moment in the long tradition of health advocacy on the part of African Americans. Body and Soul is a major achievement.—Evelynn Hammonds, Harvard UniversityIn her revisionist account, Nelson insightfully guides the reader through the range of campaigns by which the Black Panther Party paved the way to broad efforts to promote biomedical inclusion and democratize access to medical knowledge and practice.—Steven Epstein, author of Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research Table of ContentsContentsPreface: Politics by Other MeansAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Serving the People Body and Soul1. African American Responses to Medical Discrimination before 1966 2. Origins of Black Panther Party Health Activism3. The People’s Free Medical Clinics4. Spin Doctors: The Politics of Sickle Cell Anemia5. As American as Cherry Pie: Contesting the Biologization of ViolenceConclusion: Race and Health in the Post Civil Rights EraNotesIndex
£17.49
The University of Alabama Press Plague Among the Magnolias The 1878 Yellow Fever
Book SynopsisExplores the social, political, racial, and economic consequences of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Mississippi. A mild winter, a long spring, and a torrid summer produced conditions favoring the Aedes aegypti and spread of fever. In late July New Orleans newspapers reported the epidemic and upriver officials established checkpoints, but efforts at quarantine came too late.
£23.36
Ohio University Press Reading for Health
Book SynopsisIn Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Erika Wright argues that the emphasis in Victorian Studies on disease as the primary source of narrative conflict that must be resolved has obscured the complex reading practices that emerge around the concept of health.Trade Review“In Erika Wright’s concise, incisive Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel, she reverses a formative assumption: instead of reading for illness, she focuses on well-being. She recovers narratives of prevention instead of therapeutic narratives, and those health-based stories have a different form; instead of a pattern of diagnosis/crisis/cure, narratives of health are stories of steady-state maintenance.” * Victorian Studies *“Offering a largely overlooked perspective, Wright adds to growing body of scholarship in the medical humanities by considering what she terms ‘hygienic’ Victorian novels. She argues that in contrast to the familiar therapeutic narrative arc of ‘prelude, crisis, and cure,’ hygienic narratives are premised on maintenance and prevention. …Wright’s volume not only represents an important contribution to scholarship on the Victorian novel, medical humanities, and narrative theory but also demonstrates the value of literature in helping improve medical education and communication. Summing Up: Highly recommended.” * CHOICE *“A fascinating and timely contribution to discussions concerning the interrelation of medicine and fiction.” * English Studies *“In its original uncovering of hygienic narrative strategies in the nineteenth century, Reading for Health proves to be an important contribution to interdisciplinary nineteenth-century studies scholarship with an interest in literature and medicine.” * Victoriographies *“Wright breaks new ground in Reading for Health. The act of focusing on health within a genre which prioritizes the narrative arc wrought by disease is itself a new way of looking. Her book is of interest not only to scholars of canonical nineteenth-century English literature, but also to instructors of narrative medicine and to medical professionals and medical professionals in training, who may use the book as an aid in bringing empathy into their practice.” * Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies *“Expertly crafted and exquisitely written, Reading for Health uncovers the strategies by which nineteenth-century novelists—writing in the wake of new medical theories and practices—make the vagaries besetting the desired end of ‘good health’ a thematic and structuring principle of their work, in the process upending traditional narratives of illness and cure. This is a spectacular addition to the burgeoning field of medical humanities and to narrative theory.”“Erika Wright’s Reading for Health brilliantly shows how good health is not only a subject but a strategy of reading and writing worked out in the finest nineteenth-century novels. Good health is a rhetoric and an informing epistemology, constructing not just plots but readers. Wright is canny, sly, and remarkably able to get beneath the surface of novels—and her readers. An exhilarating study.”“Wright’s thoroughly original analysis focuses not on narratives of illness, but on narratives of health. She concentrates on how authors meet the narratological challenge of thematizing hygiene—a task that requires novelists to depart from the model of crisis and resolution privileged in both case studies of illness and the form of fiction itself. Thus reading against the grain, Wright uncovers a hidden history of health and of the novel itself.”
£56.10
Ohio University Press The Phenomenology of Pain
Book SynopsisThe Phenomenology of Pain is the first book-length investigation of its topic to appear in English. Groundbreaking, systematic, and illuminating, it opens a dialogue between phenomenology and such disciplines as cognitive science and cultural anthropology to argue that science alone cannot clarify the nature of pain experience without incorporating a phenomenological approach. Building on this premise, Saulius Geniusas develops a novel conception of pain grounded in phenomenological principles: pain is an aversive bodily feeling with a distinct experiential quality, which can only be given in original first-hand experience, either as a feeling-sensation or as an emotion.Geniusas crystallizes the fundamental methodological principles that underlie phenomenological research. On the basis of those principles, he offers a phenomenological clarification of the fundamental structures of pain experience and contests the common conflation of phenomenology with introspectionism. GeniusTrade Review“[A] radical and unitary attempt, newly thought through, at a methodical clarification of this crucial experience. The author’s expositions achieve a high scientific standard and display an admirable familiarity with the enormous literature on the topic, yet without ever losing sight of the phenomenon itself, and he makes himself intelligible to readers who are not specialists in phenomenology. This is certainly not a minor merit of the book…. Any future treatment of pain in a phenomenological or philosophical perspective will accordingly have to pay very serious attention to this book." * Husserl Studies *“By making phenomenology dialogical, Geniusas opens up his study to findings from disciplines other than phenomenology. Philosophers, scientists, psychologists, sociologists, and really anyone interested in pain experience can both understand and critically engage with the book. Furthermore, … [Geniusas’s] explorations of the relation between listening and treatment of pain conditions, between the life-world and pain experiences, and between the lived body and the mind shed a new light on different aspects of medical treatments.” * Journal of Phenomenological Psychology *“Geniusas convincingly substantiates his claim that phenomenology is essential to reconciling various elements of the slippery concept of pain, while also elegantly teaching the basic principles of phenomenology. By focusing on Husserl rather than Heidegger or Merleau-Ponty, who are more commonly invoked in the contemporary phenomenology of health, illness, and medicine, Geniusas allows for a more analytical approach to his subject.”“Geniusas is the first to have developed a systematic phenomenology of pain, which has never existed before the publication of this book as far as its conceptual scale and empirical base are concerned….It is also its great merit that it outlines new prospects for a dialogue between phenomenology and the positivistic sciences of pain." * Horizon: Studies in Phenomenology *
£67.15
Ohio University Press Masks Misinformation and Making Do Appalachian
Book SynopsisThis collection of first-person accounts by doctors, nurses, and others at the front lines in Appalachia explains how rural communities have responded to COVID-19, addresses stereotypical assumptions about and challenges within rural medical care, and describes burnout and other long-term effects of the pandemic on health-care workers.Trade Review“The ‘story’ of rural America during the COVID-19 pandemic is best examined by looking at the response of an underresourced and poorly designed system of care, providing care for a population most at risk for the pandemic.”
£35.10
Ohio University Press Masks Misinformation and Making Do Appalachian
Book SynopsisThis collection of first-person accounts by doctors, nurses, and others at the front lines in Appalachia explains how rural communities have responded to COVID-19, addresses stereotypical assumptions about and challenges within rural medical care, and describes burnout and other long-term effects of the pandemic on health-care workers.Trade Review“The ‘story’ of rural America during the COVID-19 pandemic is best examined by looking at the response of an underresourced and poorly designed system of care, providing care for a population most at risk for the pandemic.”
£17.99
Ohio University Press The Phenomenology of Pain
Book SynopsisThe Phenomenology of Pain is the first book-length investigation of its topic to appear in English. Groundbreaking, systematic, and illuminating, it opens a dialogue between phenomenology and the sciences to argue that science alone cannot clarify the nature of pain experience without incorporating a phenomenological approach.Trade Review“[A] radical and unitary attempt, newly thought through, at a methodical clarification of this crucial experience. The author’s expositions achieve a high scientific standard and display an admirable familiarity with the enormous literature on the topic, yet without ever losing sight of the phenomenon itself, and he makes himself intelligible to readers who are not specialists in phenomenology. This is certainly not a minor merit of the book…. Any future treatment of pain in a phenomenological or philosophical perspective will accordingly have to pay very serious attention to this book." * Husserl Studies *“By making phenomenology dialogical, Geniusas opens up his study to findings from disciplines other than phenomenology. Philosophers, scientists, psychologists, sociologists, and really anyone interested in pain experience can both understand and critically engage with the book. Furthermore, … [Geniusas’s] explorations of the relation between listening and treatment of pain conditions, between the life-world and pain experiences, and between the lived body and the mind shed a new light on different aspects of medical treatments.” * Journal of Phenomenological Psychology *“Geniusas convincingly substantiates his claim that phenomenology is essential to reconciling various elements of the slippery concept of pain, while also elegantly teaching the basic principles of phenomenology. By focusing on Husserl rather than Heidegger or Merleau-Ponty, who are more commonly invoked in the contemporary phenomenology of health, illness, and medicine, Geniusas allows for a more analytical approach to his subject.”“Geniusas is the first to have developed a systematic phenomenology of pain, which has never existed before the publication of this book as far as its conceptual scale and empirical base are concerned….It is also its great merit that it outlines new prospects for a dialogue between phenomenology and the positivistic sciences of pain." * Horizon: Studies in Phenomenology *
£26.09
Duke University Press Contagious
Book SynopsisArgues that we need to understand the appeal and persistence of the outbreak narrative because the stories we tell about disease emergence have consequences. This title presents cautionary tale about how the stories we tell circumscribe our thinking about global health and human interactions as the world imagines the next Great Plague.Trade Review“Contagious is a magnificent book, notable for its prose, its expansiveness, its courage, and its creativity.”—Rita Charon, founder of the Program in Narrative Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center“Priscilla Wald stunningly demonstrates how epidemics are forms of cultural autobiography, telescoping stories of outbreak and contagion that are reflected in our myths, symbols, archetypes, and social networks. Beautifully written and passionately argued, Contagious is required reading for those interested in learning how our diseases shape the ways we think about ourselves and our relationships and how our desires to be close to other people overlap with our anxieties about being infected by them.”—Jonathan Michel Metzl, author of Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs“Rippling across the span of the twentieth century, Priscilla Wald’s book traces the trajectories of ‘outbreak narratives,’ stories about the spread and conquest of contagious diseases. With beautifully crafted prose, Wald shows how the scientific and fictional, social and microbial intermingle as outbreak narratives confront an essential paradox, that human connectedness both imperils and saves us. Contagious is essential reading for science studies, for the field of literature and medicine, and indeed for anyone interested in the social, discursive, and cultural implications of epidemiology.”—N. Katherine Hayles, University of California, Los Angeles“Contagious is an informative, enjoyable, and well-researched interdisciplinary work that bridges literary analysis with medical history and goes a long way in explaining our fascination with outbreak narratives. The numerous popular narratives in television and film act as more than examples; they are important ways in which the outbreak narrative establishes a cultural foothold in popular imagination.” -- Shayne Pepper * Journal of Popular Culture *“[S]uperb. . . . A model of impressive broadbased interdisciplinary research that draws on popular culture (the novel, film, science journalism, and hygiene manuals), sociology and information theory, bacteriology and virology, and the history of public health, Wald’s book traces with great clarity the complex cultural logic of what she calls the “outbreak narrative” across the long twentieth century.” -- Kathleen Woodward * MLQ *“Wald has made a substantial contribution in terms of uniting theoretical insights from such fields as mythology, literature, and film studies, and applying them to the history of infectious disease epidemiology. In doing so, she makes a strong case for the importance of both the cultural critic and of interdisciplinary thinking in the preparation for future outbreaks of global disease.” -- Richard McKay * Medical History *“Wald is at her best when probing the literary and historical roots of today’s conventions, homing in on particular moments in the past. She is superb, for instance, in recalling how an immigrant Irish cook named Mary Mallon was deemed a typhoid carrier, recast as the notorious Typhoid Mary, and banished to an island off the Bronx.” -- Amanda Schaffer * Bookforum *“Wald powerfully shows not only that narrative is, in effect, the essence of epidemiology, but also that all people in every aspect of their lives make sense of the world through unarticulated structures of narrative. Articulating them, as she has done, shines a bright light outward on a scary world of shadowy threats and inward on ourselves.” -- David S. Barnes * Journal of American History *"Wald describes how the circulation of ideas and attitudes about contagious diseases led people to form social groups and eventually social cultures. Her book is filled with an exceptionally thorough review of varied pieces of information from journalism and films, as well as from real-life scientific events, that will help readers glean perspectives of how disease and outbreak narratives can shape the way people think about their societies and how they relate to others in the face of danger and infection risks. . . . In our interconnected and borderless world, outbreak narratives can endanger or save us." -- Suok Kai Chew * New England Journal of Medicine *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Imagined Immunities: The Epidemiology of Belonging 29 2. The Healthy Carrier: "Typhoid Mary" and Social Being 68 3. Communicable Americanism: Social Contagion and Urban Spaces 114 4. Viral Cultures: Microbes and Politics in the Cold War 157 5. "The Columbus of AIDS": The Invention of "Patient Zero" 213 Epilogue 264 Notes 271 Works Cited 323 Index 353
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Duke University Press Contagious
Book SynopsisArgues that we need to understand the appeal and persistence of the outbreak narrative because the stories we tell about disease emergence have consequences. This title presents cautionary tale about how the stories we tell circumscribe our thinking about global health and human interactions as the world imagines the next Great Plague.Trade Review“Contagious is a magnificent book, notable for its prose, its expansiveness, its courage, and its creativity.”—Rita Charon, founder of the Program in Narrative Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center“Priscilla Wald stunningly demonstrates how epidemics are forms of cultural autobiography, telescoping stories of outbreak and contagion that are reflected in our myths, symbols, archetypes, and social networks. Beautifully written and passionately argued, Contagious is required reading for those interested in learning how our diseases shape the ways we think about ourselves and our relationships and how our desires to be close to other people overlap with our anxieties about being infected by them.”—Jonathan Michel Metzl, author of Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs“Rippling across the span of the twentieth century, Priscilla Wald’s book traces the trajectories of ‘outbreak narratives,’ stories about the spread and conquest of contagious diseases. With beautifully crafted prose, Wald shows how the scientific and fictional, social and microbial intermingle as outbreak narratives confront an essential paradox, that human connectedness both imperils and saves us. Contagious is essential reading for science studies, for the field of literature and medicine, and indeed for anyone interested in the social, discursive, and cultural implications of epidemiology.”—N. Katherine Hayles, University of California, Los Angeles“Contagious is an informative, enjoyable, and well-researched interdisciplinary work that bridges literary analysis with medical history and goes a long way in explaining our fascination with outbreak narratives. The numerous popular narratives in television and film act as more than examples; they are important ways in which the outbreak narrative establishes a cultural foothold in popular imagination.” -- Shayne Pepper * Journal of Popular Culture *“[S]uperb. . . . A model of impressive broadbased interdisciplinary research that draws on popular culture (the novel, film, science journalism, and hygiene manuals), sociology and information theory, bacteriology and virology, and the history of public health, Wald’s book traces with great clarity the complex cultural logic of what she calls the “outbreak narrative” across the long twentieth century.” -- Kathleen Woodward * MLQ *“Wald has made a substantial contribution in terms of uniting theoretical insights from such fields as mythology, literature, and film studies, and applying them to the history of infectious disease epidemiology. In doing so, she makes a strong case for the importance of both the cultural critic and of interdisciplinary thinking in the preparation for future outbreaks of global disease.” -- Richard McKay * Medical History *“Wald is at her best when probing the literary and historical roots of today’s conventions, homing in on particular moments in the past. She is superb, for instance, in recalling how an immigrant Irish cook named Mary Mallon was deemed a typhoid carrier, recast as the notorious Typhoid Mary, and banished to an island off the Bronx.” -- Amanda Schaffer * Bookforum *“Wald powerfully shows not only that narrative is, in effect, the essence of epidemiology, but also that all people in every aspect of their lives make sense of the world through unarticulated structures of narrative. Articulating them, as she has done, shines a bright light outward on a scary world of shadowy threats and inward on ourselves.” -- David S. Barnes * Journal of American History *"Wald describes how the circulation of ideas and attitudes about contagious diseases led people to form social groups and eventually social cultures. Her book is filled with an exceptionally thorough review of varied pieces of information from journalism and films, as well as from real-life scientific events, that will help readers glean perspectives of how disease and outbreak narratives can shape the way people think about their societies and how they relate to others in the face of danger and infection risks. . . . In our interconnected and borderless world, outbreak narratives can endanger or save us." -- Suok Kai Chew * New England Journal of Medicine *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Imagined Immunities: The Epidemiology of Belonging 29 2. The Healthy Carrier: "Typhoid Mary" and Social Being 68 3. Communicable Americanism: Social Contagion and Urban Spaces 114 4. Viral Cultures: Microbes and Politics in the Cold War 157 5. "The Columbus of AIDS": The Invention of "Patient Zero" 213 Epilogue 264 Notes 271 Works Cited 323 Index 353
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Duke University Press The Republic of Therapy
Book SynopsisThe story of the global response to the HIV epidemic, told from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people living with HIV in West Africa between 1994 and 2000.Trade Review“Neither activist, nor politician, nor patient, nor pharmaceutical provider, Nguyen brings a more objective perspective to the AIDS crisis, even as he gives a first- hand account and conveys his close relationships with HIV-positive patients. A telling and provocative study of AIDS treatment in Africa, The Republic of Therapy offers no prospective solutions, but highlights the complexities and power dynamics inherent in the process of intervention.” - Sarah Fletcher, Montreal Review of Books“[A] book that can and will be read by audiences far beyond the domain of medical anthropology. The resultant volume captures the evanescent history of a slowly developing crisis within the rapidly changing landscape of postcolonial health in sub-Saharan Africa. In this unsparing and clear-eyed account, Nguyen admirably sets forth the difficult but necessary task for contemporary social scientists in the critique of global health practices.” - Jeremy A. Greene, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences“[P]ath-breaking. . . . Nguyen’s strengths as an ethnographer are his capacity to move among different organizations and institutions, his sensitivity to the roles he plays in these contexts, and his long-term engagement with local activists and other informants, and he parries these strengths into a nuanced account of the urban politics of triage and HIV in West Africa.” - Betsey Brada, Somatosphere“This work is notable not only for the quality of its craft but also the degree to which it lends a personal face to political and economic crisis.... Written in lucid, largely understated prose and drawing on the author’s long experience as both physician and anthropologist, the result is sure to provoke discussion and reaction well beyond the discipline.” - Peter Redfield, American Anthropologist“The activist, physician, and anthropologist Vinh-Kim Nguyen has written an engaged, rigorous, and compelling account of the years when, in West Africa, AIDS treatment started to become available and persons living with HIV began to organize. With insight and sympathy, he explores how new political forms were thus invented in Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso, combining therapeutic sovereignty and health democracy, triage of patients and empowerment of communities, confessions and accusations.”—Didier Fassin, author of When Bodies Remember: Experiences and Politics of AIDS in South Africa“[A] book that can and will be read by audiences far beyond the domain of medical anthropology. The resultant volume captures the evanescent history of a slowly developing crisis within the rapidly changing landscape of postcolonial health in sub-Saharan Africa. In this unsparing and clear-eyed account, Nguyen admirably sets forth the difficult but necessary task for contemporary social scientists in the critique of global health practices.” -- Jeremy A. Greene * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *“[P]ath-breaking. . . . Nguyen’s strengths as an ethnographer are his capacity to move among different organizations and institutions, his sensitivity to the roles he plays in these contexts, and his long-term engagement with local activists and other informants, and he parries these strengths into a nuanced account of the urban politics of triage and HIV in West Africa.” -- Betsey Brada * Somatosphere *“Neither activist, nor politician, nor patient, nor pharmaceutical provider, Nguyen brings a more objective perspective to the AIDS crisis, even as he gives a first- hand account and conveys his close relationships with HIV-positive patients. A telling and provocative study of AIDS treatment in Africa, The Republic of Therapy offers no prospective solutions, but highlights the complexities and power dynamics inherent in the process of intervention.” -- Sarah Fletcher * Montreal Review of Books *“This work is notable not only for the quality of its craft but also the degree to which it lends a personal face to political and economic crisis.... Written in lucid, largely understated prose and drawing on the author’s long experience as both physician and anthropologist, the result is sure to provoke discussion and reaction well beyond the discipline.” -- Peter Redfield * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Côte-d'Ivoire and Triage in the Time of AIDS 1 1. Testimonials That Bind: Organizing Communities with HIV 15 2. Confessional Technologies: Conjuring the Self 35 3. Soldiers of God: Together and Apart 61 4. Life Itself: Triage and Therapeutic Citizenship 89 5. Biopower: Fevers, Tribes, and Bulldozers 111 6. The Crisis: Economies, Warriors, and the Erosion of Sovereignty 137 7. Uses and Pleasures: The Republic Inside Out 157 Conclusion: Who Lives? Who Dies? 175 Notes 189 References 205 Index 229
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Duke University Press Second Chances
Book SynopsisDuring the first decade of this millennium, many thousands of people in Uganda who otherwise would have died from AIDS got second chances at life. The essays in Second Chances draw on personal accounts and a broad knowledge of Ugandan culture and history to explore antiretroviral therapy from the perspective of those people.Trade Review“The stories are compelling, and the analytical chapters do a good job connecting contemporary developments with the existing anthropology of HIV/AIDS…. Recommended.” -- M. M. Heaton * Choice *“Second Chances is recommended reading for anyone interested in the experiences of people with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. This is also a good book for anyone who is thinking about health systems. One of Whyte’s points that I found particularly important is that people do not simply access treatment, but achieve it.” -- Anita Chary * Global Health Hub *“This is a unique study because it focuses on individuals and how disease and health care affects them. It provides a glimpse at a culture that is rarely covered, as well. Academic libraries supporting social sciences and health sciences programs will want to add this fascinating look at HIV/AIDS from a singular perspective to their collections." -- Barbara Bibel * Library Journal *“Readers familiar with the work of Susan Reynolds Whyte and her colleagues will not be disappointed in this compelling book. In the end, the lesson of Second Chances is that reliance on ‘contingent sociality’ means that not everyone who needs ARTs can get them. The chance for a second chance, therefore, is inherently fragile and unequal. Reynolds Whyte and colleagues offer no solutions, but the moving stories of survival and striving for both a living and a life remind us of the work that remains” -- Janet W. McGrath * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Second Chances is an excellent source of health narratives about negotiating HIV status in Uganda. Second Chances will naturally interest anthropologists of East Africa, HIV and biosociality." -- Jason Johnson Peretz * Somatosphere *"Second Chances offers a rigorous and vivid look at the first generation of Ugandans with AIDS to have relatively wide access to antiretroviral therapy . . . . The book is a compelling chronicle of the terms of this 'life sentence'." -- Tyler Zoanni * Social Anthropology *Table of ContentsPolygraphy vii Introduction. The First Generation 1 Case I. Robinah and Joyce: The Connecting Sisters 25 1. Connections 34 Case II. Saddam: Treatment Programs 47 2. Clientship 56 Case III. Suzan: The Necessity of Travel 71 3. Mobility 80 Case IV. MamaGirl & MamaBoy: Family Matters 95 4. Families 104 Case V. Alice: Keeping a Good Man 119 5. Partners 128 Case VI. Jackie: Children without Grandparents 143 6. Children 152 Case VII. John: Working Contingencies 167 7. Work 176 Case VIII. Hassan: Soft Food and Town Life 191 8. Food 200 Case IX. Jolly: Appearances and Numbers 215 9. Bodies 223 Case X. Rachel: Buckets of Medicine 237 10. Medicine 245 Case XI. Dominic: A Multitude of Adversities 259 11. Life 268 Acknowledgments 285 Bibliography 287 Contributors 299 Index 301
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University of Hawai'i Press Familiar Medicine Everyday Health Knowledge and
Book SynopsisThis text examines the ways in which people of the Red River Delta make sense of their bodies, illness and medicine. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to its subject, weaving together history, ethnography, cultural geography and survey materials to provide an account of local practices.
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University of Hawaii Press Drinking Smoke The Tobacco Syndemic in Oceania
Book SynopsisDespite its enormous toll on human health, tobacco has been largely neglected by anthropologists. Drinking Smoke combines an exhaustive search of historical materials on the introduction and spread of tobacco in the Pacific with extensive anthropological accounts of the ways Islanders have incorporated this substance into their lives.
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University of Hawai'i Press Kingdom of the Sick A History of Leprosy and
Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking work, Susan L. Burns examines the history of leprosy in Japan from medieval times until the present. At the centre of Kingdom of the Sick is the rise of Japan's system of national leprosy sanitaria, which today continue to house more than 1,500 former patients, many of whom have spent five or more decades within them.
£51.00
University of Hawai'i Press Kingdom of the Sick
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Setting Priorities for HIVAIDS Interventions A
Book SynopsisHIV/AIDS is much too complex a phenomenon to be understood only by reference to common sense and ethical codes. This book presents the costâbenefit analysis (CBA) framework in a well-researched and accessible manner to ensure that the most important considerations are recognized and incorporated.Trade Review‘Professor Brent’s book is a superlative addition to the HIV/AIDS policy literature. Both non-specialists and specialists in policy evaluation will benefit from the lucid exposition of cost–benefit analysis (CBA) methods applied to the most critical and far-reaching problem that challenges social institutions and individual behavior. Essentially, Professor Brent has taken his vast experience in cost–benefit analysis, and on the ground African research, to apply CBA in a compelling and insightful manner. This book re-examines HIV/AIDS policy in Sub-Saharan countries where the devastation is an infection tsunami. . . Finding what actually works may be difficult, but Professor Brent argues persuasively that using a CBA framework is the best approach.’ -- William S. Cartwright, George Mason University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I: WHY COST–BENEFIT ANALYSIS IS NEEDED TO SET HIV/AIDS PRIORITIES 1. Introduction to the Book 2. Why Not Just Simply do What is Right and Try to Save Lives? 3. Myths and Misinformation 4. Counterintuitive Results 5. What is Wrong with Setting any Targets? 6. What is Wrong with Setting the Particular MDG Targets? 7. Cost–Benefit Analysis 101 8. Cost–Benefit Analysis 201 PART II: HIV/AIDS AS A HUNGER AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ISSUE 9. Introduction to Part II 10. HIV and Hunger 11. Nutrition and HIV at the Individual Level 12. Nutrition and HIV at the Country Level 13. Income as a Factor Raising HIV Rates 14. Education as a Factor Raising HIV Rates 15. Islam as a Factor Lowering HIV Rates 16. Impact of HIV on Agricultural Households 17. Agricultural Policy and HIV Interventions 18. Sex and HIV I: The Role of Transmission 19. Sex and HIV II: The Role of Concurrency 20. Sex and HIV III: The Role of Networks PART III: COST–BENEFIT METHODS AND APPLICATIONS 21. Introduction to Part III 22. Threshold Analysis Theory 23. Threshold Analysis Practice: The Effectiveness of HIV Education 24. Threshold Analysis Practice: The Benefits of Avoiding HIV 25. Threshold Analysis Practice: The Costs of a Possible HIV/AIDS Vaccine 26. Willingness to Pay Theory 27. Willingness to Pay Practice: The Benefits of Condoms 28. Cost Minimization Theory 29. Cost Minimization Practice: The Costs of Treating TB 30. Cost-Effectiveness Theory 31. Cost-Effectiveness Practice: The Benefits of ARVs 32. Human Capital Theory 33. Human Capital Practice: The Benefits of Female Primary Education 34. Value of a Statistical Life Theory 35. Value of a Statistical Life Practice: The Benefits of VCT PART IV: SOCIAL CONSIDERATIONS IN CBA 36. Introduction to IV 37. Commodification: Everything is Seen as a Commodity to be Bought and Sold 38. What is So “Social” About CBA? Fundamentals of CBA 39. Social and Private Perspectives in CBA 40. CBA and Equity I: Allowing for Ability to Pay 41. CBA and Equity II: Allocating by Time and Other Non-Price Methods 42. Conclusions I: How Not to Set Priorities for HIV 43. Conclusions II: Using CBA to Set Priorities for HIV References Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Having Epilepsy
Book SynopsisBased on the interviews with eighty people who have epilepsy, this book presents an account of what it is like to cope with a chronic illness, while working, playing, and building relationships. It recounts how people discover they have epilepsy and what it means and how families respond to someone labeled 'epileptic'.Trade Review"Well written and fascinating to read. This fine book takes a large step in...contributing to the only slowly dawning awareness of the general public, and the health workers too, of the significance of chronic illness." --Anselm Strauss, University of California, San Francisco "For anyone who would like to 'get inside' the experience of having epilepsy, this book is probably as close as one can come." --Epilepsia "In dispelling the notion that 'the person is the illness,' these interviews with 80 individuals reveal that those suffering from epilepsy have learned to accept it as merely another facet of their lives. A valuable contribution for those with epilepsy, for their family and friends, for medical personnel, and for the general public." --Booklist "...carefully outlined and clearly written... Those affected by chronic conditions may find the book most helpful... Family and helping professionals may discover new insights... Social scientists, especially those interested in chronic illnesses, will benefit from the research conclusions and suggestions for further research." --Medical Anthropology Quarterly "It represents an important advance in the medical sociology literature as well as a contribution to qualitative sociology. I think that the book should become a contemporary classic in medical sociology." --Qualitative Sociology "...an important contribution... In focusing on what it is like to have epilepsy in this society, Schneider and Conrad have reversed an earlier concern for the medicalization of deviance, opting in this work for an understanding of the stigmatization of illness." --Contemporary Sociology
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Temple University Press,U.S. Walk the Walk and Talk the Talk
Book SynopsisArgues that the drug abuse treatment facility forces its residents to 'walk the walk and talk the talk' by compelling them to subscribe to its rules and ideology, which emphasize the need to conform to the image of a dope fiend in order to show 'progress' in treatment.Trade Review"Skoll cogently presents the often ludicrous contradictions in philosophy and practice which continually face both residents and staff. The double-binds, Catch-22s, and condemnation of almost all past behavior promotes a pathological conformism to the facility aptly reflect in the book's title."—Dr. Jerome Beck, Public Health, Institute for Scientific AnalysisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. The Residents 3. The Counselors 4. The Political Economy 5. The Ideology 6. Talk the Talk 7. Conclusion Notes References Index
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Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay Jennifer Gloria Lowpez Odibaajimowin imaa Waaswa
Book SynopsisJennifer's life is falling apart and she escapes into booze, cocaine, and junk food. When they're not numbing enough, she slits a vein and tries to die but that doesn't work either. She has to try something else. A remarkable story about addiction recovery. In Ojibwe and English.
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd CostBenefit Analysis and Dementia
Book SynopsisTrade 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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Edward Elgar Publishing Concise Introduction to Health and Welfare
Book SynopsisHealth and welfare are often analysed separately. This book combines understanding about health and health systems with analysis of the pathways welfare states have to promote improvements in quality of life and reduce pressure on the health care sector.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to the Anthropology of Reproductive
Book SynopsisProvides fresh perspectives on the past, present and future-facing contributions of the anthropology of reproduction. A Companion to the Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine and Technology provides a timely and comprehensive overview of the anthropological study of reproductive practices, technologies, and interventions in a global context. Exploring the medical and technological management of human reproduction through a sociocultural lens, this groundbreaking volume reviews past and current research, discusses contemporary debates and recent theoretical developments, introduces key themes and trends, examines ongoing issues of equity, inclusivity, and reproductive justice around the world, and more. The Companion brings together essays by multidisciplinary scholars in fields including sociocultural anthropology, medical anthropology, reproductive health, global public health, Science and Technology Studies (STS), gender and sexuality studies, critical race studies, and environmental studies, to list but a few. Five thematically organized sections address reproductive practitioners and paradigms, global reproductive health and interventions, reproductive justice, the life-course approach to the study of reproductive health, and the future of reproductive technology and medicine. Using clear, jargon-free language, the authors investigate pregnancy and childbirth; fertility treatments; birth control, contraception and abortion; COVID-19 and reproduction; reproductive cancers; epigenetics; social discrimination; gender and sexualities and reproduction for LGBTQIA+ communities; race and reproduction; migration and reproduction; reproduction and war; reproductive health financing; reproduction and disabilities, reproduction and the environment; and other important contemporary topics. A cutting-edge guide to the modern study of reproduction, this groundbreaking volume: Provides an overview of the links between anthropological study and progressive work in medicine, healthcare, and technologyAddresses both the challenges and opportunities facing researchers in the fieldIdentifies gaps in current scholarship and offers recommendations for future research topics and methodologiesHighlights the importance of ethnographic research combined with critical engagements with other disciplines for the anthropology of reproductionExplores the impact of socioeconomic conditions, environmental challenges, public policy, and legislation on reproductive health outcomesTraces the history of the field and demonstrates how anthropologists have engaged with issues of reproductive justicePart of the acclaimed Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology series, A Companion to the Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine and Technology is an essential resource for undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and scholars in medical anthropology, science technology and society, cultural anthropology, ethnology, and gender studies, as well as medical practitioners, policymakers, and activists involved in global and public health and reproductive justice.Table of ContentsNotes on Editors x Notes on Contributors xi Acknowledgments xxii INTRODUCTION Tracing the Arc: The Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine and Technology 1Cecilia Coale Van Hollen and Nayantara Sheoran Appleton SECTION I Reproductive Practitioners and Paradigms 39 1 Into Doctors' Hands: Obstetric Praxis in Anthropology 41Vania Smith-Oka and Simona Spiegel 2 Obstetrics and Midwifery in the United States: The Tensions between the Technocratic and Midwifery Models of Maternity Care 56Robbie Davis-Floyd 3 The Promise of Interculturalidad: Contestations of Culture for Indigenous Birth Care 70Lucía Guerra-Reyes 4 On the Move: Maternal Reproductive Healthcare Practitioners in Global Circuits 87Hatice Nilay Erten and Claire Wendland 5 COVID-19 and Reproductive Health: Maternity Care in Disruptive Times 103Kim Gutschow SECTION II Global Reproductive Health Interventions 119 6 The Global Safe Motherhood Initiative's "Unintended Consequences" 121Emma Varley and Elsabé du Plessis 7 Counted: Understanding the Problem, Perception, and Reaction to Global Maternal Mortality 138Vanessa M. Hildebrand 8 The Future of Reproductive Health Financing 153Susan Erikson and Iveoma Udevi-Aruevoru 9 Reproduction and the Immigrant Experience 168Carolyn Sargent, Carla Urrutia, and Laurence Kotobi 10 Reproduction in the Time of War: A Review of Ethnographic Studies from the United States' War on Terror and Beyond 185Andrea Mazzarino SECTION III Reproductive Justice: Extending and Rupturing Old Boundaries 201 11 Anthropologies of Men, Masculinities, and Reproduction 203Emily Wentzell, Maral Erol, and Salih Can Aciksöz 12 Queer Reproductive Futures 219Nessette Falu and Christa Craven 13 Inconceivable: Cisnormativity and the Management of Trans and Intersex Reproduction 234Mel Lynwood Ferrara 14 Race, Racism, and Reproductive Justice 250Ugo Edu 15 Toward Environmental Reproductive Justice 266Katharine Dow and Julieta Chaparro-Buitrago 16 Cripping Reproduction: The Intersections of Pregnancy and Disability 282Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp SECTION IV Reproductive Life Course: Mapping More than Just Birth 299 17 Menstrual Materiality: Anthropological Mappings from Menstrual Taboos to the FemCare Industry 301Malissa Kay Shaw 18 The Substance of Sperm 317Ayo Wahlberg 19 Hormonal Contraception: From Demographic Histories to Pleasurable Futures? 332Nayantara Sheoran Appleton 20 Anthropology of Abortion 349Maya Unnithan, Silvia De Zordo, Astrid Blystad, and Karen Marie Moland 21 Vaccines, Reproduction, and the Life Course 365Ben Kasstan 22 Anthropological Explorations of Women's Reproductive Cancers 381Linda Rae Bennett and Lenore Manderson SECTION V (Re)Producing the Future: Sociality of Reproductive Technology and Medicine 397 23 What's New about New Reproductive Technologies? 399Sarah Franklin 24 Conceptualizing Surrogacy 415Anindita Majumdar 25 The Egg Freezing Trifecta: Medical, Elective, and Transgender Fertility Preservation 429Marcia C. Inhorn, Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli, and Pasquale Patrizio 26 CRISPR Enters the Fertility Clinic 444Eben Kirksey 27 Epigenetics and the Anthropology of Reproduction 458Fiona C. Ross, Michelle Pentecost, and Tessa Moll 28 Reproductive Futures 473Andrea Whittaker CONCLUSION Aab Kahan?: Whither the Anthropology of Reproduction? 488Nayantara Sheoran Appleton and Cecilia Coale Van Hollen AFTERWORD Reproducing on an Impaired Planet 502Aditya Bharadwaj Index 507
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd AlcoholRelated Violence
Book SynopsisNew in the Wiley Series in Forensic Clinical Psychology, Alcohol-Related Violence: Prevention and Treatment presents an authoritative collection of the most recent assessment and treatment strategies for alcohol-related aggression and violence. Contributors include leading international academics and practitioners.Trade Review“This can be found in the autobiographies of many reformed characters from the field. The perspectives in this collection do, however, provide progressive insights into a pragmatic way forward for those battling away in their professional lives against the harm involved in alcohol-related violence.” (The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 5 June 2014) “This is a useful and instructive book, with all the information laid out in an accessible way. Its practical and versatile nature means it will ‘hit the spot’ for a diverse range of readers – policymakers, health and social-care commissioners, researchers and students of alcohol studies, and practitioners in this field, especially those working with offenders in prison and elsewhere within the criminal justice system.” (DrugLink, 1 July 2013) “The book’s key strength is in the breadth of approaches presented, and it represents a strong step towards a more integrated approach to studying and reducing alcohol-related violence." (Addiction, 4 June 2013) Table of ContentsAbout the Editor vii Contributors ix Foreword xi Series Editors’ Preface xv PART I THE EXTENT OF THE PROBLEM 1 1 The Problem of Alcohol-Related Violence: An Epidemiological and Public Health Perspective 3 Ingeborg Rossow and Elin K. Bye 2 Alcohol-Related Violence: An International Perspective 19 Fernanda Cestaro Prado Cortez and Danilo Antonio Baltieri PART II UNDERSTANDING THE PROBLEM 35 3 Alcohol and Aggression: Theories and Mechanisms 37 Peter R. Giancola 4 Alcohol and Violence in Evolutionary Perspective 61 Russil Durrant 5 Alcohol and Violence in Developmental Perspective 81 Rick Howard and Mary McMurran PART III PREVENTION 103 6 Alcohol-Related Violence as Alcohol-Related Crime: Policing, Policy and the Law 105 Gavin Dingwall 7 Barroom Approaches to Prevention 125 Alasdair J.M. Forsyth PART IV TREATMENT 151 8 Interventions with Children and Families 153 Donald Forrester and Georgia Glynn 9 Treatments for Offenders of Intimate Partner Violence 171 Caroline J. Easton 10 Alcohol Arrest Referral 187 Katie McCracken and Franco Sassi 11 Treatments for Offenders in Prison and the Community 205 Mary McMurran 12 Treatment for Alcohol-Related Sexual Violence 227 Ruth E. Mann and Mark Farmer 13 Treatments for Offenders with Dual Diagnosis 249 Amy Cohn and Kim T. Mueser 14 Alcohol Use and Offending in People with Intellectual Disability 285 William R. Lindsay, Samantha Tinsley and Medhat Emara 15 Treatments for Alcohol-Related Impaired Driving 303 Thomas G. Brown and Marie Claude Ouimet PART V CONCLUSION 335 16 Alcohol-Related Violence: An Endnote 337 Mary McMurran Index 341
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Palgrave Macmillan How Politics Makes Us Sick
Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Neoliberalism: What it is and what it does.- The inequality machine'.- The many dimensions of insecurity: How politics makes our work and lives precarious.- Explanations: How neoliberalism gets under our skin.- Austerity: how politics pulled away our safety net.- Lethal but legal': The corporate connections (commercial determinants of health).- Pandemics: How politics exposes us.- Building back better?.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The View From Here
Book SynopsisThis book is a comprehensive exploration of the relationship between the social sciences and the appearance and growth of bioethics, and provides new analysis on how ordinary questions become bioethical questions.Trade Review?The diversity of papers in the collection reflect the multiplicity of ways through which social scientists can engage with (bio)ethics and provide a valuable resource for those new to the area.? (Medical Sociology , April 2009)Table of Contents1. Social Science and Bioethics: The Way Forward: Raymond de Vries, Leigh Turner, Kristina Orfali and Charles Bosk. 2. Co-ordinating ‘Ethical’ Clinical Trials: The Role of Research Coordinators in the Contract Research Industry: Jill A. Fisher. 3. The Many Meanings of Care in Clinical Research: Michele M. Easter, Gail E. Henderson, Arlene M. Davis, Larry R. Churchill and Nancy M. P. King. 4. The Field Worker’s Fields: Ethics, Ethnography and Medical Sociology: Renée R. Anspach and Nissim Mizrachi. 5. Ethical Boundary-Work in the Embryonic Stem Cell Laboratory: Steven P. Wainwright, Clare Williams, Mike Michael, Bobbie Farsides and Alan Cribb. 6. Gift Not Commodity? Lay People Deliberating Social Sex Selection: Jackie Leach Scully, Tom Shakespeare and Sarah Banks. 7. It’s Money That Matters: The Financial Context of Ethical Decision-Making in Modern Biomedicine: Adam M. Hedgecoe. 8. The Power of Ethics: A Case Study from Sweden on the Social Life of Moral Concerns in Policy Processes: Klaus Hoeyer. 9. Explaining the Emergence of Euthanasia Law in the Netherlands: How the Sociology of Law Can Help the Sociology of Bioethics: Heleen Weyers. 10. From Biopolitics to Bioethics: Church, State, Medicine and Assisted Reproductive Technology in Ireland: Orla McDonnell and Jill Allison. 11. Taking Sociology Seriously: A New Approach to the Bioethical Problems of Infectious Disease: Mark Tausig, Michael J. Selgelid, Sree Subedi and Janardan Subedi. 12. Biobanks, Bioethics and Concepts of Donated Blood in the UK: Helen Busby. 13. Embodiment and Ethics: Constructing Medicine’s Two Bodies: David Armstrong.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Harm Reduction in Substance Use and HighRisk
Book SynopsisHarm Reduction is a philosophy of public health intended as a progressive alternative to the prohibition of certain potentially dangerous lifestyle choices. Recognising that certain people always have and always will engage in behaviours which carry risks, the aim of harm reduction is to mitigate the potential dangers and health risks associated with those behaviours. Harm Reduction in Substance Use and High-Risk Behaviour offers a comprehensive exploration of the policy, practice and evidence base of harm reduction. Starting with a history of harm reduction, the book addresses key ethical and legal issues central to the debates and developments in the field. It discusses the full range of psychoactive substances, behaviours and communities with chapters on injecting, dance drugs, stimulant use, tobacco harm reduction, alcohol use and sex work. Written by an international team of contributors, this text provides an essential panorama of harm reduction in the 21Trade Review“Overall this book is a very good read for those interested in addiction issues and could be used as an excellent reference book for future policy making in harm reduction.” (Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, 1 October 2013) Taken overall in the context of its strengths and shortcomings, and as one of the few textbooks of its kind, it is a welcome resource for the field of harm reduction. We would recommend this book to those unfamiliar with the discipline, particularly individuals entering academia and those interested in advocacy and policy. Many sections can be read as stand-alone pieces, to help the reader develop an understanding of fundamental concepts before delving further into research. It is especially valuable if one is interested in harm reduction with respect to the UK contex.” (Drug & Alcohol Review, 15 September 2013) Table of ContentsForeword ix List of Figures and Tables xi List of Contributors xii Section I: Background 1 1 Introduction 3Diane Riley and Richard Pates 2 A Brief History of Harm Reduction 5Diane Riley, Richard Pates, Geoffrey Monaghan and Patrick O’Hare 3 Drug Education or Drug Propaganda? 17Julian Cohen Section II: Policy 31 4 Harm Reduction and International Law: Drug Control vs. Human Rights 33Richard Elliott 5 A Brief, Personal History of Harm Reduction Advocacy 49Dave Burrows 6 Harm Reduction and the Role of Police Services 59Geoffrey Monaghan 7 Harm Reduction in Prisons and Other Places of Detention 77Ralf Jurgens 8 International Security and the Global War on Drugs: The Tragic Irony of Drug Securitisation 101Danny Kushlick 9 The Ethics of Harm Reduction 111Adrian Carter, Peter G. Miller and Wayne Hall 10 Harm Reduction: Contribution to a Critical Appraisal from the Perspective of People Who Use Drugs 124Eliot Ross Albert Section III: Specific Interventions 133 11 Injecting 135Richard Pates, Robert Heimer and Danny Morris 12 Recovery and Harm Reduction: Time for a Shared, Development-Oriented, Programmatic Approach? 155Neil Hunt 13 Harm Reduction for Stimulants 171Diane Riley and Richard Pates 14 Ecstasy and Related Drugs (ERDs) and Harm Reduction 184Paul Dillon, Professor Jan Copeland and Edmund Silins 15 Alcohol: Harm Reduction 196Tina Alwyn and Bev John 16 Tobacco Harm Reduction 213Jonathan Foulds and Steven Branstetter 17 Drugs and Harm Reduction: Cannabis and the Cannabinoids 229Stefan Brugger, Laurence J. Reed, James Stone and David J. Nutt 18 The Resurrection of Psychedelic Research 246Amanda Fielding 19 Harm Reduction and Sex Workers: A New Zealand Response: Taking the Harm Out of the Law 252Catherine Healy, Calum Bennachie and Raewyn Marshall 20 Harm Minimisation: Gambling 263Sally Gainsbury and Alex Blaszczynski 21 Young People and Harm Reduction in the UK: A Community Perspective 279Mags Maher 22 Making Tools for Harm Reduction: The Story of Exchange Supplies 289Jon Derricott Section IV: Regions 299 23 Harm Reduction in Central and Eastern Europe 301Tomas Zabransky, Jean Paul Grund, Alisher Latypov, David Otiashvili, Raminta Stuikyte, Otilia Scutelniciuc and Pavlo Smyrnov 24 Harm Reduction in Western Europe 322Richard Pates 25 Harm Reduction in Russia, South West and Central Asia 335Tomas Zabransky, Alisher Latypov, Ivan Varentsov, David Otiashvili and Jean Paul Grund 26 Harm Reduction in South, South East and East Asia 354Jimmy Dorabjee 27 History and Context of Harm Reduction in the United States 370Lisa Moore and Allan Clear 28 Harm Reduction in Canada: The Many Faces of Regression 382Walter Cavalierri and Diane Riley 29 Harm Reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean 395Diana Rossi 30 Policy and Practice in Harm Reduction in Australasia 405Alex Wodak, John Ryan, Patrick Griffiths, Ingrid van Beek, Monica J. Barratt, Simon Lenton, Kate Dolan, Ana Rodas, Geoffrey Noller and Michael Farrell 31 Harm Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa 425Bruce Trathen, Charles D.H. Parry and Neo K. Morojele 32 Overview of the Harm Reduction Situation in the Middle East and North Africa 444Jallal Toufiq Section V: Conclusions 455 33 Conclusions 457Richard Pates and Diane Riley Index 461
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