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Book SynopsisThrough rich ethnographic narrative, Becoming Gods examines how a cohort of doctors-in-training in the Mexican city of Puebla learn to become doctors. Smith-Oka draws from compelling fieldwork, ethnography, and interviews with interns, residents, and doctors that tell the story of how medical trainees learn to wield new tools, language, and technology and how their white coat, stethoscope, and newfound technical, linguistic, and sensory skills lend them an authority that they cultivate with each practice, transforming their sense of self. Becoming Gods illustrates the messy, complex, and nuanced nature of medical training, where trainees not only have to acquire a monumental number of skills but do so against a backdrop of strict hospital hierarchy and a crumbling national medical system that deeply shape who they are.Trade Review"Vania Smith-Oka is a gifted ethnographer of the anthropology of reproduction. In Becoming Gods she reveals the embodied transformational processes through which Mexican medical trainees become good doctors, vividly depicting how doing so is hindered by the country’s profoundly resource-poor medical system and the persistence of racial, social, class, and gendered hierarchies."— Carole Browner, co-editor of Reproduction, Globalization, and the State: New Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectiv New Books Network - New Books in Anthropology interview with Vania Smith-Oka— New Books Network - New Books in Anthropology "Seeking to learn how obstetric violence is routinized in Mexico, Smith-Oka reveals how societal inequalities shape trainee physicians’ education, embodiment, and even souls. Taking readers backstage in medical interns’ hospital work through rich and readable ethnography, she shows students’ ideals meeting realities of toxic hierarchy, discrimination and precarity as they become doctors. Essential reading for understanding how professionalization reproduces inequality!" — Emily Wentzell, author of Maturing Masculinities: Aging, Chronic Illness, and Viagra in Mexico "The ethnography is sensitively and respectfully written, yet also visceral enough to evoke a deep feeling in the reader....The weight behind Smith-Oka's arguments connecting societal everyday violence to the normalization of violence against bodies in so-called health ‘care’, is a valuable contribution to the scholarship."— Journal of Latin American and Caribbean AnthropologyTable of ContentsIllustrations Foreword by Lenore Manderson Introduction: Medicine as an (Extra)Ordinary Social Commitment 1 Women Can’t Be Trauma Doctors, and Other Gendered Stories of Medicine 2 Doctors on the March: Punishment, Violence, and Protests 3 The Soul of the Hospital: Life as an Intern 4 Internalizing and Reproducing Violence 5 The Body Learns: Transforming Skills and Practice in Obstetrics Wards Conclusion: Medicine as an Imperfect System Acknowledgments Glossary Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThrough rich ethnographic narrative, Becoming Gods examines how a cohort of doctors-in-training in the Mexican city of Puebla learn to become doctors. Smith-Oka draws from compelling fieldwork, ethnography, and interviews with interns, residents, and doctors that tell the story of how medical trainees learn to wield new tools, language, and technology and how their white coat, stethoscope, and newfound technical, linguistic, and sensory skills lend them an authority that they cultivate with each practice, transforming their sense of self. Becoming Gods illustrates the messy, complex, and nuanced nature of medical training, where trainees not only have to acquire a monumental number of skills but do so against a backdrop of strict hospital hierarchy and a crumbling national medical system that deeply shape who they are.Trade Review"Vania Smith-Oka is a gifted ethnographer of the anthropology of reproduction. In Becoming Gods she reveals the embodied transformational processes through which Mexican medical trainees become good doctors, vividly depicting how doing so is hindered by the country’s profoundly resource-poor medical system and the persistence of racial, social, class, and gendered hierarchies."— Carole Browner, co-editor of Reproduction, Globalization, and the State: New Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectiv New Books Network - New Books in Anthropology interview with Vania Smith-Oka— New Books Network - New Books in Anthropology "Seeking to learn how obstetric violence is routinized in Mexico, Smith-Oka reveals how societal inequalities shape trainee physicians’ education, embodiment, and even souls. Taking readers backstage in medical interns’ hospital work through rich and readable ethnography, she shows students’ ideals meeting realities of toxic hierarchy, discrimination and precarity as they become doctors. Essential reading for understanding how professionalization reproduces inequality!" — Emily Wentzell, author of Maturing Masculinities: Aging, Chronic Illness, and Viagra in Mexico "The ethnography is sensitively and respectfully written, yet also visceral enough to evoke a deep feeling in the reader....The weight behind Smith-Oka's arguments connecting societal everyday violence to the normalization of violence against bodies in so-called health ‘care’, is a valuable contribution to the scholarship."— Journal of Latin American and Caribbean AnthropologyTable of ContentsIllustrations Foreword by Lenore Manderson Introduction: Medicine as an (Extra)Ordinary Social Commitment 1 Women Can’t Be Trauma Doctors, and Other Gendered Stories of Medicine 2 Doctors on the March: Punishment, Violence, and Protests 3 The Soul of the Hospital: Life as an Intern 4 Internalizing and Reproducing Violence 5 The Body Learns: Transforming Skills and Practice in Obstetrics Wards Conclusion: Medicine as an Imperfect System Acknowledgments Glossary Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisViral Frictions takes the reader along a trail of intersecting narratives to uncover how and why it is that HIV-related stigma persists in the age of treatment. Pfeiffer convincingly argues that stigma is a socially constructed process co-produced at the nexus of local, national, and global relationships and storytelling about and practices associated with HIV. Based on a decade of fieldwork in one highway trading center in Kenya, Viral Frictions offers compelling stories of stigma and discrimination as a lens for understanding broader social processes, the complexities of globalization and health, and their profound impact on the everyday social lives and relationships of people living through the ongoing HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. This highly engaging book is ideal reading for those interested in teaching and learning about intersectionality, as Pfeiffer meticulously demonstrates how HIV stigma interacts with issues of treatment, race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, social change, and international aid systems.Trade Review"Through engaging storytelling and careful analysis, Viral Frictions examines the persistence of stigma surrounding AIDS in Kenya. Tracing the intersection of multiple axes of inequality and illuminating the complicity of global actors, Elizabeth Pfeiffer provides a new and insightful perspective on an enduring problem. Further, her rich ethnography takes a Rift Valley 'truck stop'—stereotypically reduced to a risk site—and reveals a vibrant community." -- Daniel Jordan Smith * author of AIDS Doesn’t Show Its Face: Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria *“An exquisite ethnography of the complex social frictions arising from decades of HIV interventions, and more recent efforts to 'end AIDS,' in Kenya. Deftly interweaving history, theory, and ethnographic stories, Viral Frictions offers a humane and carefully wrought reminder that HIV stigma persists in social relations even as the virus becomes increasingly 'undetectable' in bodies due to biomedical treatment.” -- Nora Kenworthy * author of Mistreated: The Political Consequences of the Fight Against AIDS in Lesotho *"Through engaging storytelling and careful analysis, Viral Frictions examines the persistence of stigma surrounding AIDS in Kenya. Tracing the intersection of multiple axes of inequality and illuminating the complicity of global actors, Elizabeth Pfeiffer provides a new and insightful perspective on an enduring problem. Further, her rich ethnography takes a Rift Valley 'truck stop'—stereotypically reduced to a risk site—and reveals a vibrant community." -- Daniel Jordan Smith * author of AIDS Doesn’t Show Its Face: Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria *“An exquisite ethnography of the complex social frictions arising from decades of HIV interventions, and more recent efforts to 'end AIDS,' in Kenya. Deftly interweaving history, theory, and ethnographic stories, Viral Frictions offers a humane and carefully wrought reminder that HIV stigma persists in social relations even as the virus becomes increasingly 'undetectable' in bodies due to biomedical treatment.” -- Nora Kenworthy * author of Mistreated: The Political Consequences of the Fight Against AIDS in Lesotho *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword by Lenore Manderson PrefaceAcronyms and Abbreviations Introduction 1 Uneven Anthropological and Epidemiological Stories in Historical HIV Context2 “The Postelection Violence Has Brought Shame on Us All”: HIV and Legacies of Racism, Political Violence, and Ethnic Conflict 3 Stigma and the Cultural Politics of Uncertainty 4 “We Call HIV a Sex Worker Disease”: Economic Inequalities, Social Change, and the Politics of Gender and Sexuality 5 (Re)Imagining Stigma at the Intersection of HIV and Mental Health Statuses6 “What Has Happened to You?” HIV and the (Re)Making of Moral Personhood Conclusion AcknowledgmentsNotes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn disease cluster communities across the country, environmental contamination from local industries is often suspected as a source of disease. But civic action is notoriously hampered by the slow response from government agencies to investigate the cause of disease and the complexities of risk assessment. In Risk and Adaptation in a Cancer Cluster Town, Laura Hart examines another understudied dimension of community inaction: the role of emotion and its relationship to community experiences of social belonging and inequality. Using a cancer cluster community in Northwest Ohio as a case study, Hart advances an approach to risk that grapples with the complexities of community belonging, disconnect, and disruption in the wake of suspected industrial pollution. Her research points to a fear driven not only by economic anxiety, but also by a fear of losing security within the community—a sort of pride that is not only about status, but connectedness. Hart reveals the importance of this social form of risk—the desire for belonging and the risk of not belonging—ultimately arguing that this is consequential to how people make judgements and respond to issues. Within this context where the imperative for self-protection is elusive, affected families experience psychosocial and practical conflicts as they adapt to cancer as a way of life. Considering a future where debates about risk and science will inevitably increase, Hart considers possibilities for the democratization of risk management and the need for transformative approaches to environmental justice.Trade Review“Hart does an excellent job weaving local community narratives in with sociological insights and theories of risk and belonging. Risk and Adaptation in a Cancer Cluster Town offers a clear and important contribution to in-depth community studies of industrial risks and environmental health disaster.” -- Peter Little * author of Toxic Town: IBM, Pollution, and Industrial Risks *“Hart’s account of Clyde, Ohio leaves the reader feeling as though they’ve come to know the residents of this town, and it skillfully captures the complexity underlying a community’s response to chronic contamination and illness. It is an important contribution to the literature on risk, disasters, and the sociology of emotions.” -- Norah MacKendrick * author of Better Safe Than Sorry: How Consumers Navigate their Exposure to Everyday Toxics *Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Town of Whirlpool 1 The Deregulation of Toxic Chemicals 2 Cancer in Clyde and “Will-o’-the-Wisp Things” 3 Emotion, Risk, and Othering 4 Embodied Risk 5 Toward Transformative Movements of Theory and Practice Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe fourth edition of Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity provides both classic and recent contributions to the field, with a special accent on how these approaches can contribute to health and social equity. The 23 chapters offer conceptual frameworks, skill- building and case studies in areas like coalition building, organizing by and with women of color, community assessment, and the power of the arts, the Internet, social media, and policy and media advocacy in such work. The use of participatory evaluation and strategies and tips on fundraising for community organizing also are presented, as are the ethical challenges that can arise in this work, and helpful tools for anticipating and addressing them. Also included are study questions for use in the classroom. Many of the book’s contributors are leaders in their academic fields, from public health and social work, to community psychology and urban and regional planning, and to social and political science. One author was the 44th president of the United States, himself a former community organizer in Chicago, who reflects on his earlier vocation and its importance. Other contributors are inspiring community leaders whose work on-the-ground and in partnership with us “outsiders” highlights both the power of collaboration, and the cultural humility and other skills required to do it well. Throughout this book, and particularly in the case studies and examples shared, the role of context is critical, and never far from view. Included here most recently are the horrific and continuing toll of the COVID-19 pandemic, and a long overdue, yet still greatly circumscribed, “national reckoning with systemic racism,” in the aftermath of the brutal police killing of yet another unarmed Black person, and then another and another, seemingly without end. In many chapters, the authors highlight different facets of the Black Lives Matter movement that took on new life across the country and the world in response to these atrocities. In other chapters, the existential threat of climate change and grave threats to democracy also are underscored.View the Table of Contents and introductory text for the supplementary instructor resources. (https://d3tto5i5w9ogdd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/04143046/9781978832176_optimized_sampler.pdf)Supplementary instructor resources are available on request: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/communityorganizingTrade Review"This volume is a must have for those studying and practicing community building and organizing. It offers an abundance of voices and an array of approaches for those engaged in the difficult task of transforming communities to provide healthy and equitable environments. Leading scholars and organizers share their knowledge and insights—we all can learn from them." -- Louise Simmons * professor of social work, University of Connecticut *"A fantastic book that provides extraordinary foundations for community engagement and mobilization in the pursuit of social justice. The voices from multiple scholars and community leaders invite us to embrace new ways of working for equity-focused systemic change in public health and beyond." -- Carlos E. Rodríguez-Díaz, * Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University *"This volume is a must have for those studying and practicing community building and organizing. It offers an abundance of voices and an array of approaches for those engaged in the difficult task of transforming communities to provide healthy and equitable environments. Leading scholars and organizers share their knowledge and insights—we all can learn from them." -- Louise Simmons * professor of social work, University of Connecticut *"A fantastic book that provides extraordinary foundations for community engagement and mobilization in the pursuit of social justice. The voices from multiple scholars and community leaders invite us to embrace new ways of working for equity-focused systemic change in public health and beyond." -- Carlos E. Rodríguez-Díaz, * Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Antony B. Iton PART ONE: Introduction 1 Introduction to Community Organizing and Community Building in a New Era MEREDITH MINKLER AND PATRICIA WAKIMOTO 2 Why Organize? Problems and Promise in the Inner City BARACK OBAMA PART TWO: Contextual Frameworks and Approaches 3 Improving Health through Community Organizing and Community Building: Perspectives from Health Education and Social Work MEREDITH MINKLER, NINA WALLERSTEIN, AND CHERYL A. HYDE 4 Anti-racism Praxis: A Community Organizing Approach for Achieving Health and Social Equity DEREK M. GRIFFITH AND HEATHER CAME 5 Contrasting Organizing Approaches: The “Alinsky Tradition” and Freirian Organizing Approaches MARTY MARTINSON, CELINA SU, AND MEREDITH MINKLER 6 It’s All Organizing, It’s All Love: Building People’s Power in Jackson, Mississippi MAKANI N. THEMBA PART THREE: Building Effective Partnerships and Anticipating and Addressing Ethical Challenges 7 Community, Community Organizing, and the Forming of Authentic Partnerships: Looking Back, Looking Ahead RONALD LABONTÉ 8 Ethical Issues in Community Organizing and Capacity Building MEREDITH MINKLER, CHERI A. PIES, PATRICIA WAKIMOTO, AND CHERYL A. HYDE 9 Communities Driving Change: A Case Study from King County’s Communities of Opportunity ROXANA CHEN, KIRSTEN WYSEN, BLISHDA LACET, WHITNEY JOHNSON, AND STEPHANIE A. FARQUHAR PART FOUR: Community Assessment and Issue Selection 10 Community Health Assessment or Healthy Community Assessment: Whose Community? Whose Health? Whose Assessment? TREVOR HANCOCK AND MEREDITH MINKLER 11 Mapping Community Capacity JOHN L. MCKNIGHT, JOHN P. KRETZMANN, AND LIONEL J. BEAULIEU 12 Selecting the Issue LEE STAPLES AND RINKU SEN PART FIVE: Community Organizing and Community Building within and across Diverse Groups and Cultures 13 Education, Participation, and Capacity Building in Community Organizing with Women of Color LORRAINE M. GUTIÉRREZ AND EDITH A. LEWIS 14 Mobilizing Black Barbershops and Beauty Salons to Eliminate Health Disparities: Lessons Learned on the Road to Health Equity during a Global Pandemic LAURA A. LINNAN, STEPHEN B. THOMAS, AND SUSAN R. PASSMORE 15 Popular Education, Participatory Research, and Community Organizing with Immigrant Restaurant Workers in San Francisco’s Chinatown: A Case Study CHARLOTTE CHANG, ALICIA L. SALVATORE, PAM TAU LEE, SHAW SAN LIU, AND MEREDITH MINKLER PART SIX: Using the Arts and the Internet as Tools for Community Organizing and Community Building 16 Creating an Online Strategy to Enhance Effective Community Building and Organizing: Harnessing the Power of the Internet NICKIE BAZELL AND EVAN VANDOMMELEN-GONZALEZ 17 Using the Arts in Community Organizing and Community Building: An Overview and Case Studies CARICIA CATALANI, ANNE BLUETHENTHAL, DIERDRE VISSER, MARÍA ELENA TORRE, AND MEREDITH MINKLER PART SEVEN: Building, Maintaining, and Evaluating Effective Coalitions and Community Organizing Efforts 18 Community Coalition Action Theory: Designing and Evaluating Community Collaboratives FRANCES D. BUTTERFOSS AND MICHELLE C. KEGLER 19 Addressing Food Insecurity and Tobacco Control through a Neighborhood Coalition: Applying Community Coalition Action Theory and Principles for Collaborating for Equity and Justice PATRICIA WAKIMOTO, SUSANA HENNESSEY LAVERY, MEREDITH MINKLER, AND JESSICA ESTRADA 20 Funding for Community Organizing: Tips for Raising Money While Promoting New Thinking in the Funding Environment R. DAVID REBANAL 21 Participatory Approaches to Evaluating Community Building and Organizing for Community and Social Change CHRIS M. COOMBE, PATRICIA WAKIMOTO, AND ZACHARY ROWE PART EIGHT: Influencing Policy through Community Organizing and Media Advocacy 22 Moving the Policy Dial through Equity-Focused Community Organizing LISA CACARI STONE, MANUEL PASTOR, JOSEPH GRIFFIN, RACHEL MORELLO-FROSCH, AND MEREDITH MINKLER 23 Abolition as a Public Health Intervention: Building Multisector Momentum for Community Care and Criminal Legal System Policy Change AMBER AKEMI PIATT, CHRISTINE MITCHELL, WAYLAND COLEMAN, AND MEREDITH MINKLER 24 Media Advocacy: A Potent Strategy for Engaging Communities in the Fight for Equitable Public Policy LORI DORFMAN, PRISILA GONZALEZ, AND SHADDAI MARTINEZ CUESTAS Appendixes 1 Challenging Ourselves: Critical Self-Reflection on Power and Privilege CHERYL A. HYDE 2 Community Mapping and Digital Technology: Tools for Organizers JASON CORBURN, MARISA RUIZ ASARI, AND JOSH KIRSCHENBAUM 3 Action-Oriented Community Diagnosis Procedure EUGENIA ENG AND LYNN BLANCHARD 4 Sample Community Health Indicators for Use in Health Impact Assessment HUMAN IMPACT PARTNERS 5 Skywatchers’ Values-Based Methodology and Guidance for Practice ANNE BLUETHENTHAL, DIERDRE VISSER, NANCY EPSTEIN, AND CLARA PINSKY 6 Ladder of Community Participation in Public Health JENNIFER LIFSHAY AND MARY ANNE MORGAN 7 Member Assessment of Coalition Process and Outcomes TOM WOLFF 8 Issue-Development Worksheet RINKU SEN 9 Choosing Tactics and Framing the Action: Key Questions and Considerations for Getting It Right MARK S. HOMAN 10 Engaging Coalition and Community Organization Members in a “River of Life” Exercise to Create a Historical Timeline MAGDALENA AVILA, SHANNON SANCHEZ-YOUNGMAN, REVA HINES, LESLIE GROVER, AND NINA WALLERSTEIN 11 Using Force Field Analysis, SWOT Analysis, and Power Mapping as Strategic Tools in Organizing MEREDITH MINKLER, ANGELA NI, CHRIS M. COOMBE, AND JENNIFER FALBE 12 Scale for Measuring Perceptions of Control at the Individual, Organizational, Neighborhood, and Beyond-the-Neighborhood Levels BARBARA A. ISRAEL, AMY J. SCHULZ, EDITH A. PARKER, AND ADAM B. BECKER Epilogue by Kathleen M. Roe Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisEvery year thousands of foreign-born Filipino and Indian nurses immigrate to the United States. Despite being well trained and desperately needed, they enter the country at a time, not unlike the past, when the American social and political climate is once again increasingly unwelcoming to them as immigrants. Drawing on rich ethnographic and survey data, collected over a four-year period, this study explores the role Catholicism plays in shaping the professional and community lives of foreign-born Filipino and Indian American nurses in the face of these challenges, while working at a Veterans hospital. Their stories provide unique insights into the often-unseen roles race, religion and gender play in the daily lives of new immigrants employed in American healthcare. In many ways, these nurses find themselves foreign in more ways than just their nativity. Seeing nursing as a religious calling, they care for their patients, both at the hospital and in the wider community, with a sense of divine purpose but must also confront the cultural tensions and disconnects between how they were raised and trained in another country and the legal separation of church and state. How they cope with and engage these tensions and disconnects plays an important role in not only shaping how they see themselves as Catholic nurses but their place in the new American story. Trade ReviewThis book is important for its examination of the role of Catholicism within the context of nursing in a U.S. government hospital. It will capture the attention of many audiences as we think about what it means to be Catholic and Asian American in the United States today. How Filipino and Indian American nurses have influenced nursing in America, and how they, in turn, have been challenged by American culture are vital issues of study. -- Barbra Mann Wall * author of American Catholic Hospitals: A Century of Changing Markets and Missions *"Cherry does an excellent job bringing us inside the experiences of nurses working at the Houston VA and putting their work there—and the VA itself—in broader historical contexts. The material gathered and shared is richly descriptive and informative. Every chapter made me think about something I had not before, and to consider the experiences of healthcare providers in new ways." -- Wendy Cadge * author of Religion on the Edge: De-centering and Re-centering the Sociology of Religion *This book is important for its examination of the role of Catholicism within the context of nursing in a U.S. government hospital. It will capture the attention of many audiences as we think about what it means to be Catholic and Asian American in the United States today. How Filipino and Indian American nurses have influenced nursing in America, and how they, in turn, have been challenged by American culture are vital issues of study. -- Barbra Mann Wall * author of American Catholic Hospitals: A Century of Changing Markets and Missions *"Cherry does an excellent job bringing us inside the experiences of nurses working at the Houston VA and putting their work there—and the VA itself—in broader historical contexts. The material gathered and shared is richly descriptive and informative. Every chapter made me think about something I had not before, and to consider the experiences of healthcare providers in new ways." -- Wendy Cadge * author of Religion on the Edge: De-centering and Re-centering the Sociology of Religion *Table of ContentsChapter One: Veterans and a Crisis of Care Chapter Two: Colonialism, Christian Culture and Nursing Care Chapter Three: New American Battlefields Chapter Four: Understanding and Coping with the Trauma of War Chapter Five: Faith and the Practice of Care Chapter Six: Extending Health and Care to Community Chapter Seven: Who Will Care for America?

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Book SynopsisCancer Entangled explores the shifts that took place in Denmark around the millennium, when health promoters set out to minimize delays in cancer diagnoses in hope of improving cancer survival. The authors suggest a temporal reframing of cancer control that emphasizes the importance of focusing on how people – potential patients as well as health care professionals – experience and anticipate cancer before a diagnosis or a prediction has been made. This argument compellingly challenges and augments anthropological work on cancer control that has privileged attention to the productive role of science and technology and to life with cancer or cancer risk. By offering rich ethnographic insights into the introduction of the first cancer vaccine, cancer signs and symptoms, public discourses on delays, social class and care seeking, cancer suspicion in the clinic, as well as the work on fast-track referral – the book convincingly situates cancer control in an ethical registrar involving attention to acceleration and time, showing how cancer waiting times become an index of the "state of the nation".Trade Review"Cancer Entangled is a remarkable edited collection that chronicles the social life and shaping of cancer in Denmark. Andersen and Tørring have crafted a vital contribution to the anthropology of cancer that innovatively weaves intimate experiences of surveillance, diagnosis, and treatment with historico-political analyses of the birth of 'fast-track cancer pathways' within the Danish healthcare system. Cancer Entangled is a must read for all anthropologists, sociologists, STS scholars, and political scientists interested in healthcare." -- Ayo Wahlberg * professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen *"Cancer Entangled explores how the miasma of the potential of cancer infiltrates and weighs on people’s ordinary lives as well as clinical experiences. The impact of anticipatory cancer within a welfare state is at the core of each of the chapters, yet each individual chapter contributes a contextually different perspective, contributing to our understanding of the broader context. This is a conversation well worth joining!" -- M. Cameron Hay-Rollins * author of Remembering to Live: Illness at the Intersection of Anxiety and Knowledge in Rural Indones *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Crafting Cancer Anticipations Rikke Sand Andersen Chapter 1: The Waiting Time Paradox: Intensifying Public Discourses on the Vital Character of Cancer Waiting Times Marie Louise Tørring Chapter 2: Accelerated Diagnostics in Slow Motion: Ordinary Dramas of Life and Death in the Middle Class Sara Marie Hebsgaard Offersen Chapter 3: “What If It Is Just Hiding?”: Care Seeking in the Context of Symptom Expansion Rikke Sand Andersen Chapter 4: Cancer, Inequality, and Expectations of Sameness Camilla Hoffmann Merrild Chapter 5: The Ghost of Cancer in the Clinic Benedikte Møller Kristensen Chapter 6. Making Cancer Patient Pathways Work Rikke Aarhus Chapter 7: “Keeping an Eye on It”: Infrastructures of Lung Cancer Uncertainty and Certainty Michal Frumer Chapter 8: Silent Cancer Vaccine Encounters: Young Women’s Experiences with Suspected HPV Vaccine Adverse Reactions Stine Hauberg Nielsen Afterword: Urgency, Modernity, and Pace in Cancer Care Lenore Manderson Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisWith unprecedented speed, scientists have raced to develop vaccines to bring the COVID-19 pandemic under control and restore a sense of normalcy to our lives. Despite the havoc and disruption the pandemic has caused, it’s exposed exactly why we should not return to life as we once knew it. Our current profit-driven healthcare systems have exacerbated global inequality and endangered public health, and we must take this opportunity to construct a new social order that understands public health as a basic human right. A COVID Charter, A Better World outlines the steps needed to reform public policies and fix the structural vulnerabilities that the current pandemic has made so painfully clear. Leading scholar Toby Miller argues that we must resist neoliberalism’s tendency to view health in terms of individual choices and market-driven solutions, because that fails to preserve human rights. He addresses the imbalance of geopolitical power to explain how we arrived at this point and shows that the pandemic is more than just a virus—it’s a social disease. By examining how the U.S., Britain, Mexico, and Colombia have responded to the COVID-19 crisis, Miller investigates corporate, scientific, and governmental decision-making and the effects those decisions have had on disadvantaged local communities. Drawing from human rights charters ratified by various international organizations, he then proposes a COVID charter, calling for a new world that places human lives above corporate profits.Trade Review"Toby Miller offers bold governing principles to secure the rescue, perhaps even the thriving, of humans and the planet. However one might amend his charter, it is impossible to reject its premise, which positively screeches from Miller's accounting of how the pandemic was lived in four nations: we cannot go on like this."— Wendy Brown, author of In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Anti-Democratic Politics in the West "The COVID pandemic has made it possible for many to see that the current economic system and the legislation that it promotes do not work. Toby Miller makes a cogent argument for the need to change course in economic and social policy, both nationally and globally. With his strong reputation in cultural and media studies, and more recently in Latin American Studies, I am confident that this project will have a significant impact in those fields and beyond."— George Yúdice, author of The Expediency of Culture: Uses of Culture in the Global Era "The Environment of the Vaccine – the Vaccine and the Environment," by Toby Miller— Democratic Left "Toby Miller offers bold governing principles to secure the rescue, perhaps even the thriving, of humans and the planet. However one might amend his charter, it is impossible to reject its premise, which positively screeches from Miller's accounting of how the pandemic was lived in four nations: we cannot go on like this."— Wendy Brown, author of In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Anti-Democratic Politics in the West "The Environment of the Vaccine – the Vaccine and the Environment," by Toby Miller— Democratic Left "The COVID pandemic has made it possible for many to see that the current economic system and the legislation that it promotes do not work. Toby Miller makes a cogent argument for the need to change course in economic and social policy, both nationally and globally. With his strong reputation in cultural and media studies, and more recently in Latin American Studies, I am confident that this project will have a significant impact in those fields and beyond."— George Yúdice, author of The Expediency of Culture: Uses of Culture in the Global EraTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Year of the Mask 1 Before the Crisis 2 During the Crisis 3 After(?) the Crisis 4 The Charter Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThe COVID pandemic has shaken the material and social foundations of the world more than any event in recent history and has highlighted and exacerbated a longstanding crisis of care. While these challenges may be freshly visible to the public, they are not new. Over the last three decades, a growing body of care scholarship has documented the inadequacy of the social organization of care around the world, and the effect of the devaluation of care on workers, families, and communities. In this volume, a diverse group of care scholars bring their expertise to bear on this recent crisis. In doing so, they consider the ways in which the existing social organization of care in different countries around the globe amplified or mitigated the impact of COVID. They also explore the global pandemic's impact on the conditions of care and its role in exacerbating deeply rooted gender, race, migration, disability, and other forms of inequality.Trade Review“From Crisis to Catastrophe is a very timely book, focusing on two topics that have received great attention recently: care and COVID-19. The editors, scholars specialized in the topic, have gathered a group of outstanding experts from multiple institutions and countries to address this new phenomenon.” — Camila Arza, research fellow at National Scientific and Technical Research Council in Argentina "The editors of From Crisis to Catastrophe are three of the most important scholars of care work in the 21st century. In this book they bring together scholars from many regions across the globe, whose work has the potential to identify key strategies to create a safer, healthier, and more just economy."— Joya Misra, coauthor of The New Handbook of Political SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction MIGNON DUFFY, AMY ARMENIA, AND KIM PRICE-GLYNN PART ONE Crisis 1 Beyond Wealth-Care: Pandemic Dreams for a Just and Caring Future JOAN C. TRONTO 2 Latin America’s Response to COVID-19: The Risk of Sealing an Unequal Care Regime JULIANA MARTÍNEZ FRANZONI ANDVEENA SIDDHARTH 3 COVID-19, Global Care, and Migration ITO PENG 4 Black Lives Matter: Structural Racism, Sexism, and Carework in the United States ODICHINMA AKOSIONU, JANETTE DILL, MIGNON DUFFY, AND J’MAG KARBEAH 5 Disability, Ableism, and Care during COVID-19 in the United States LAURA MAULDIN 6 Unpaid Care in Public Places: Tensions in the Time of COVID-19 PAT ARMSTRONG AND JANNA KLOSTERMANN PART TWO Catastrophe 7 The Right to Care at Stake: The Syndemic Emergency in Latin America MARÍA NIEVES RICO AND LAURA C. PAUTASSI 8 At the Crossroads of the Employment and the Care Crises: Care Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic VALERIA ESQUIVEL 9 Caring for Children and the Economy: The Uneven Effects of the Pandemic on Childcare Workers, Primary School Teachers, and Unpaid Caregivers PILAR GONALONS-PONS AND JOHANNA S. QUINN 10 COVID-19 and Care for the Elderly People in Africa: An Analysis of South Africa’s Mitigation Measures ZITHA MOKOMANE AND AMEETA JAGA 11 Transnational Family Caregiving during a Global Pandemic KEN CHIH-YAN SUN PART THREE Aftermath 12 Cheap Praise: Supplemental Pay for Essential Workers in the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic FRANZISKA DORN, NANCY FOLBRE, LEILA GAUTHAM, AND MARTHA MACDONALD 13 Migrants in Europe’s Domestic and Care Sector: The Institutional Response SABRINA MARCHETTI AND MERITA MESIÄISLEHTO 14 Budgeting Care Services during the COVID-19 Crisis ORLY BENJAMIN 15 Policy, Culture, and COVID-19: European Childcare Policies during the Pandemic THURID EGGERS, CHRISTOPHER GRAGES, AND BIRGIT PFAU-EFFINGER PART FOUR Transformation 16 Exposing Fault Lines, Flaring Tensions, and the Need for New Alliances: Home Care in the Time of COVID-19 in Ontario, Canada CYNTHIA J. CRANFORD 17 End-of-Life Considerations during COVID-19 CINDY L. CAIN 18 COVID-19 and the Rise of the Care Robots HELEN DICKINSON AND CATHERINE SMITH 19 Challenging Gender Regimes through Employee Voice in Carework KATHERINE RAVENSWOOD 20 Building a Care Infrastructure in the United States JULIE KASHEN Epilogue: Care in Crisis: Convergences and Divergences MIGNON DUFFY, AMY ARMENIA, AND KIM PRICE-GLYNN Acknowledgments References Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe COVID pandemic has shaken the material and social foundations of the world more than any event in recent history and has highlighted and exacerbated a longstanding crisis of care. While these challenges may be freshly visible to the public, they are not new. Over the last three decades, a growing body of care scholarship has documented the inadequacy of the social organization of care around the world, and the effect of the devaluation of care on workers, families, and communities. In this volume, a diverse group of care scholars bring their expertise to bear on this recent crisis. In doing so, they consider the ways in which the existing social organization of care in different countries around the globe amplified or mitigated the impact of COVID. They also explore the global pandemic's impact on the conditions of care and its role in exacerbating deeply rooted gender, race, migration, disability, and other forms of inequality.Trade Review“From Crisis to Catastrophe is a very timely book, focusing on two topics that have received great attention recently: care and COVID-19. The editors, scholars specialized in the topic, have gathered a group of outstanding experts from multiple institutions and countries to address this new phenomenon.” — Camila Arza, research fellow at National Scientific and Technical Research Council in Argentina "The editors of From Crisis to Catastrophe are three of the most important scholars of care work in the 21st century. In this book they bring together scholars from many regions across the globe, whose work has the potential to identify key strategies to create a safer, healthier, and more just economy."— Joya Misra, coauthor of The New Handbook of Political SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction MIGNON DUFFY, AMY ARMENIA, AND KIM PRICE-GLYNN PART ONE Crisis 1 Beyond Wealth-Care: Pandemic Dreams for a Just and Caring Future JOAN C. TRONTO 2 Latin America’s Response to COVID-19: The Risk of Sealing an Unequal Care Regime JULIANA MARTÍNEZ FRANZONI ANDVEENA SIDDHARTH 3 COVID-19, Global Care, and Migration ITO PENG 4 Black Lives Matter: Structural Racism, Sexism, and Carework in the United States ODICHINMA AKOSIONU, JANETTE DILL, MIGNON DUFFY, AND J’MAG KARBEAH 5 Disability, Ableism, and Care during COVID-19 in the United States LAURA MAULDIN 6 Unpaid Care in Public Places: Tensions in the Time of COVID-19 PAT ARMSTRONG AND JANNA KLOSTERMANN PART TWO Catastrophe 7 The Right to Care at Stake: The Syndemic Emergency in Latin America MARÍA NIEVES RICO AND LAURA C. PAUTASSI 8 At the Crossroads of the Employment and the Care Crises: Care Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic VALERIA ESQUIVEL 9 Caring for Children and the Economy: The Uneven Effects of the Pandemic on Childcare Workers, Primary School Teachers, and Unpaid Caregivers PILAR GONALONS-PONS AND JOHANNA S. QUINN 10 COVID-19 and Care for the Elderly People in Africa: An Analysis of South Africa’s Mitigation Measures ZITHA MOKOMANE AND AMEETA JAGA 11 Transnational Family Caregiving during a Global Pandemic KEN CHIH-YAN SUN PART THREE Aftermath 12 Cheap Praise: Supplemental Pay for Essential Workers in the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic FRANZISKA DORN, NANCY FOLBRE, LEILA GAUTHAM, AND MARTHA MACDONALD 13 Migrants in Europe’s Domestic and Care Sector: The Institutional Response SABRINA MARCHETTI AND MERITA MESIÄISLEHTO 14 Budgeting Care Services during the COVID-19 Crisis ORLY BENJAMIN 15 Policy, Culture, and COVID-19: European Childcare Policies during the Pandemic THURID EGGERS, CHRISTOPHER GRAGES, AND BIRGIT PFAU-EFFINGER PART FOUR Transformation 16 Exposing Fault Lines, Flaring Tensions, and the Need for New Alliances: Home Care in the Time of COVID-19 in Ontario, Canada CYNTHIA J. CRANFORD 17 End-of-Life Considerations during COVID-19 CINDY L. CAIN 18 COVID-19 and the Rise of the Care Robots HELEN DICKINSON AND CATHERINE SMITH 19 Challenging Gender Regimes through Employee Voice in Carework KATHERINE RAVENSWOOD 20 Building a Care Infrastructure in the United States JULIE KASHEN Epilogue: Care in Crisis: Convergences and Divergences MIGNON DUFFY, AMY ARMENIA, AND KIM PRICE-GLYNN Acknowledgments References Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisOne out of every six patients in the United States is treated in a Catholic hospital that follows the policies of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. These policies prohibit abortion, sterilization, contraception, some treatments for miscarriage and gender confirmation, and other reproductive care, undermining hard-won patients’ rights to bodily autonomy and informed decision-making. Drawing on rich interviews with patients and providers, this book reveals both how the bishops’ directives operate and how people inside Catholic hospitals navigate the resulting restrictions on medical practice. In doing so, Bishops and Bodies fleshes out a vivid picture of how The Church’s stance on sex, reproduction, and “life” itself manifests in institutions that affect us all.Trade Review"Shortly after the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, horrific stories began to emerge from hospitals across the country. To many, these denials of emergency medical care seemed to be an alarming new consequence of the Supreme Court’s decision. Lori Freedman, however, has documented such stories for well over a decade. We would do well to study her work carefully — including her book Bishops and Bodies: Reproductive Care in American Catholic Hospitals — in this critical moment. * Catholics for Choice *“It’s a recipe for disaster—the Catholic Church wants the most births possible, and most American women want to limit their childbearing and protect their health with modern advances in contraception and abortion. Yet in the name of corporate conscience, our anachronistic laws allow Catholic healthcare to require physicians of all faiths to do things that violate medical ethics and often constitute malpractice. Freedman’s compelling research, rich storytelling, and incisive analysis reveal how outrageous Bishop-knows-best medicine really is.” -- Katie Watson * author of Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law and Politics of Ordinary Abortion *"Bishops and Bodies is poised to make a significant impact not just in social science and medical humanities circles, but in broader public conversations about health care, reproductive rights, and the place of religion in society." -- Jessica Martucci * author of Back to the Breast: Natural Motherhood and Breastfeeding in America *Table of ContentsForeword by Debra Stulberg Prologue: Unsafe and Unequal Introduction: Doctrinal Iatrogenesis 1 Growth: How Catholic Health Care Expanded 2 Inferior: How Catholic Directives Contradict Medical Standards 3 Consumer Medicine? Patients and the Illusion of Choice 4 Emergencies: Patient Loss and Suffering 5 Mostly Above-Board Workarounds 6 Under the Radar Workarounds 7 Separation of Church and Hospital 8 Conclusion Acknowledgements Appendix Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe Cancer Within examines cervical cancer in Romania as a point of entry into an anthropological reflection on contemporary health care. Cervical cancer prevention reveals the inner workings of emerging post-communist medicine, which aligns the state and the market, public and private health care providers, policy makers, and ordinary women. Fashioned by patriarchal relations, lived religion, and the historical trauma of pronatalism, Romanian women’s responses to reproductive medicine and cervical cancer prevention are complicated by neoliberal reforms to medical care. Cervical cancer prevention – and especially the HPV vaccination – provided Romanians a legitimate instance to express their conflicting views of post-communist medicine. What sets Romania apart is that pronatalism, patriarchy, lived religion, medical reforms, and moral contestation of preventive medicine bring into line systemic contingencies that expose the historical, social, and cultural trajectories of cervical cancer. Trade Review"The Cancer Within is a compelling analysis of Romanian women’s resistance to cervical cancer screening and the HPV vaccine by a cultural 'insider.' In this wide-ranging and readable account, Pop reveals how Romanians’ reproductive lives and choices are profoundly shaped by the country’s violent history of reproductive governance under Ceausescu, as well as by inequities of health care delivery in the post-communist era." -- Elise Andaya * author of Conceiving Cuba: Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet Era *"Beautifully written and theoretically inspired, this vivid and pathbreaking ethnography shows how history continues to haunt Romanian women’s sexual and reproductive lives, and how post-socialist healthcare provides no panacea for a cervical cancer crisis and accompanying HPV vaccine hesitancy. The Cancer Within is a must-read for those interested in gender, sexuality, and reproductive health, as well as medicine in the post-socialist era." -- Marcia Inhorn * author of America’s Arab Refugees: Vulnerability and Health on the Margins *"The Cancer Within is a compelling analysis of Romanian women’s resistance to cervical cancer screening and the HPV vaccine by a cultural 'insider.' In this wide-ranging and readable account, Pop reveals how Romanians’ reproductive lives and choices are profoundly shaped by the country’s violent history of reproductive governance under Ceauşescu, as well as by inequities of health care delivery in the post-communist era." -- Elise Andaya * author of Conceiving Cuba: Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet Era *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Series Foreword by Lenore Manderson Note on Terminology Introduction: Systemic Contingencies Part I: Women’s, Men’s and God’s Will 1. ”We All Descend from Communism” 2. Reproductive Invisibility Interlude: Cervical Cancer Prevention: A Romanian Odyssey. Part One. 3. Beyond Rationalities Part II: Medicine and Its Moralities 4. Dismantling Medicine Interlude: Cervical Cancer Prevention: A Romanian Odyssey. Part Two. 5. The Other Hospital 6. Locating Corruption Conclusion: The Space between Informed and Non-informed Refusal Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFor any country that has a large and diverse migrant population, it is a struggle to connect these people to the country’s institutions, including the healthcare system, which can be overwhelming in its complexity. Cultural and language barriers often make it difficult for doctors to fully understand the symptoms of their migrant patients, reach accurate diagnoses, or properly treat their suffering. Thus, medical practitioners must attempt new, innovative practices in order to reach patients where they are and convince them to accept treatment from doctors they don’t totally understand. In France, Serge Bouznah and Catherine Lewertowski have pioneered one such practice—that of transcultural mediation. Drawn from two decades of their experience with transcultural mediation, Spirits in the Consulting Room tells the stories of eight patients—mainly migrants—and their families. Each chapter focuses on a different patient, and Christelle, Djibril, Moncef, Alhassane, Jacinthe, Amy, Cyril, Alice, and Pierre leap off the page as distinct people with unique situations. Together, these chapters reveal how patients’ comprehension of their symptoms is shaped by their cultural background, while recounting the challenges of translating that into terms the doctors can grasp. The book shows how trained transcultural mediators can help to redress the power imbalance between doctors and the migrants they treat, providing patients with advocates who respect the authority of their background and experiences and don’t just take the side of the medical professionals. The groundbreaking insights modeled in this book can be applied to any medical situation where doctors and patients find themselves speaking different languages. Trade Review"The Spirits in the Consulting Room is a must-read for all who wish to immerse themselves in eight heart-wrenching cases that rely on transcultural or intercultural mediation in healthcare. A great tool to equip healthcare providers or anyone working with diverse patients, this book vividly showcases how to consider a more intercultural approach and empower patients with the agency they need to help transform their conditions from a human perspective.""The Spirits in the Consulting Room is a must-read for all who wish to immerse themselves in eight heart-wrenching cases that rely on transcultural or intercultural mediation in healthcare. A great tool to equip healthcare providers or anyone working with diverse patients, this book vividly showcases how to consider a more intercultural approach and empower patients with the agency they need to help transform their conditions from a human perspective." -- Izabel E. T. de V. Souza * author of Intercultural Mediation in Healthcare: From the Professional Medical Interpreters' Perspec *"This wonderful book is a compelling invitation to listen closely, not only to the complexity of human narratives of suffering, but also to the way they weave across cultural and social divides. The plurality and beauty of the stories evoked here contribute to this weaving, building bridges between universal culture and the individual human experience. An inspiring book, worth fully inhabiting and meditating upon, which also provides critical tools we can use to improve our healing practices." -- Cécile Rousseau * coeditor of Working with Refugee Families: Trauma and Exile in Family Relationships *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword by Javier I. Escobar Foreword by Jaswant Guzder Prologue: “When I was two years old, I killed my grandmother” Introduction 1. The Title Deed of Grandfather Léon 2. An Angry Man 3. “If You’re a Human Being, Change Your Skin Immediately!” 4. Who Will Carry the Parasol for Me? 5. When the Black Cat Bit 6. The Curse 7. Leave Me Out of All This! 8. A Defaced Skin Conclusion Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisFor any country that has a large and diverse migrant population, it is a struggle to connect these people to the country’s institutions, including the healthcare system, which can be overwhelming in its complexity. Cultural and language barriers often make it difficult for doctors to fully understand the symptoms of their migrant patients, reach accurate diagnoses, or properly treat their suffering. Thus, medical practitioners must attempt new, innovative practices in order to reach patients where they are and convince them to accept treatment from doctors they don’t totally understand. In France, Serge Bouznah and Catherine Lewertowski have pioneered one such practice—that of transcultural mediation. Drawn from two decades of their experience with transcultural mediation, Spirits in the Consulting Room tells the stories of eight patients—mainly migrants—and their families. Each chapter focuses on a different patient, and Christelle, Djibril, Moncef, Alhassane, Jacinthe, Amy, Cyril, Alice, and Pierre leap off the page as distinct people with unique situations. Together, these chapters reveal how patients’ comprehension of their symptoms is shaped by their cultural background, while recounting the challenges of translating that into terms the doctors can grasp. The book shows how trained transcultural mediators can help to redress the power imbalance between doctors and the migrants they treat, providing patients with advocates who respect the authority of their background and experiences and don’t just take the side of the medical professionals. The groundbreaking insights modeled in this book can be applied to any medical situation where doctors and patients find themselves speaking different languages. Trade Review"The Spirits in the Consulting Room is a must-read for all who wish to immerse themselves in eight heart-wrenching cases that rely on transcultural or intercultural mediation in healthcare. A great tool to equip healthcare providers or anyone working with diverse patients, this book vividly showcases how to consider a more intercultural approach and empower patients with the agency they need to help transform their conditions from a human perspective.""The Spirits in the Consulting Room is a must-read for all who wish to immerse themselves in eight heart-wrenching cases that rely on transcultural or intercultural mediation in healthcare. A great tool to equip healthcare providers or anyone working with diverse patients, this book vividly showcases how to consider a more intercultural approach and empower patients with the agency they need to help transform their conditions from a human perspective." -- Izabel E. T. de V. Souza * author of Intercultural Mediation in Healthcare: From the Professional Medical Interpreters' Perspec *"This wonderful book is a compelling invitation to listen closely, not only to the complexity of human narratives of suffering, but also to the way they weave across cultural and social divides. The plurality and beauty of the stories evoked here contribute to this weaving, building bridges between universal culture and the individual human experience. An inspiring book, worth fully inhabiting and meditating upon, which also provides critical tools we can use to improve our healing practices." -- Cécile Rousseau * coeditor of Working with Refugee Families: Trauma and Exile in Family Relationships *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword by Javier I. Escobar Foreword by Jaswant Guzder Prologue: “When I was two years old, I killed my grandmother” Introduction 1. The Title Deed of Grandfather Léon 2. An Angry Man 3. “If You’re a Human Being, Change Your Skin Immediately!” 4. Who Will Carry the Parasol for Me? 5. When the Black Cat Bit 6. The Curse 7. Leave Me Out of All This! 8. A Defaced Skin Conclusion Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisMammography is a routine health screening performed forty million times each year in the United States, yet it remains one of the most deeply contested topics in medicine, with national health care organizations supporting conflicting guidelines. In Mammography Wars, sociologist Asia Friedman examines cultural and medical disagreements over mammography. At issue is whether to screen women under age fifty, which is rooted in deeper questions about early detection and the assumed linear and progressive development of breast cancer. Based on interviews with doctors and scientists, interviews with women ages 40 to 50, and newspaper coverage of mammography, Friedman uses the sociology of attention to map the cognitive structure of the “mammography wars,” offering insights into the entrenched nature of debates over mammography that often get missed when applying a medical lens. Friedman’s analysis also suggests the sociology of attention’s unique potential for analyzing cultural conflicts beyond mammography, and even beyond medicine. Trade Review“Friedman is a thorough researcher with a clear, engaging style. Her focus on patterns of attention as the organizing analytical framework is fresh and unusual: a fascinating read.” -- Kelly Joyce * professor of sociology, Drexel University *“Mammography Wars is an insightful intervention into deeply entrenched conflict surrounding mammography screening standards in the United States. Friedman deftly blends together empirical analysis of the narratives driving disagreements among professionals and patients alike with a clear and accessible take on the power of the sociology of attention, breaking through seemingly intractable ideological battles to resolve conflict.” -- Piper Sledge * author of Bodies Unbound: Gender-Specific Cancer and Biolegitimacy *Table of Contents Introduction: The Mammography Wars Chapter 1: Skepticism and Interventionism as Attentional Types Chapter 2: Attentional Diversity—The Cognitive Structure of Patients’ Narratives of Mammography Chapter 3: Attentional Battles over Mammography Chapter 4: Attentional Weight—Relevance, Risk, and Expertise in Mammography Chapter 5: Mammography and Time Conclusion: Attentional Flexibility Appendix Acknowledgements Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisReflections on the Pandemic: COVID and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed is a collection of essays, poems, and artwork that captures the raw energy and emotion of 2020 from the perspective of the Rutgers University community. The project features work from a diverse group of Rutgers scholars, students, staff, and alumni. Reflecting on 2020 from a number of perspectives – mortality, justice, freedom, equality, democracy, family, health, love, hate, economics, history, medicine, science, social justice, the environment, art, food, sanity – the book features contributions by Evie Shockley, Joyce Carol Oates, Naomi Jackson, Ulla Berg, Grace Lynne Haynes, Jordan Casteel, and President Jonathan Holloway, among others. This book, through its rich and imaginative storytelling at the intersection of scholarly expertise and personal narrative, brings readers into the hearts and minds of not just the Rutgers community but the world. Contributors include: Patricia Akhimie, Marc Aronson, Ulla D. Berg, Stephanie Bonne, Stephanie Boyer, Kimberly Camp, Jordan Casteel, Kelly-Jane Cotter, Mark Doty, David Dreyfus, Adrienne E. Eaton, Katherine C. Epstein, Leah Falk, Paul G. Falkowski, Rigoberto González, James Goodman, David Greenberg, Angelique Haugerud, Grace Lynne Haynes, Leslieann Hobayan, Jonathan Holloway, James W. Hughes, Naomi Jackson, Amy Jordan, Vikki Katz, Mackenzie Kean, Robert E. Kopp, Christian Lighty, Stephen Masaryk, Louis P. Masur, Revathi V. Machan, Yalidy Matos, Belinda McKeon, Susan L. Miller, Yehoshua November, Joyce Carol Oates, Mary E. O’Dowd, Katherine Ognyanova, David Orr, Gregory Pardlo, Steve Pikiell, Teresa Politano, en Purkert, Nick Romanenko, Evie Shockley, Caridad Svich, and Didier William​.Trade Review"In Reflections on the Pandemic: Covid and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed, stories of personal experience and scholarly expertise shine light on the intricacies of the pandemic years...[it] covers a range of topics that were relevant to the pandemic, including science, health, racial injustice, environmental issues, politics, relationships, mortality and more." * New Jersey Monthly *“The accounts within this volume tell the story of the COVID-19 pandemic and its complex intersection with every facet of our lives. Our shared trauma, loss, resilience, and hope are reflected in its pages. I thank the Rutgers community for these important reflections and for all they did to propel us through those difficult days.” -- Governor Phil Murphy of New JerseyTable of Contents Preface Reflections in a COVID Photograph by Jonathan Holloway pantoum: 2020 by Evie Shockley Mercy (As If) by Mark Doty Writing My Last Book by Rigoberto González Taking the Court by Steve Pikiell The New Normal by Revathi V. Machan Emerging Not Stronger or Weaker but Different by Stephanie Bonne Looking for a Better End Game by Mary E. O’Dowd Pandemic Dispatches (East Africa–North America) by Angelique Haugerud War of the World: How Humans Became a Destructive Force of Nature by Paul G. Falkowski Jared (2020) by Jordan Casteel Reflections on Being Human in the Twenty-First Century by Yalidy Matos Risking Delight in the Middle of a Pandemic by Yehoshua November Days of 2020: Fear without Knowledge by Mark Doty A Litany for Survival by Naomi Jackson Sojourner Truth, Founding Mother by Grace Lynne Haynes A Letter to Juneteenth on the Embodied History of Life in 2020 by Gregory Pardlo We Cannot Escape History by Louis P. Masur Paying Attention by James Goodman A Reckoning with Names: Signs, Symbols, and the Meanings of History by David Greenberg The COVID States Project: Empowering a National Response by Katherine Ognyanova I’ve Missed You (2021) by Didier William Burning Bologna, 2021 by Susan L. Miller Pandemic Theology: “Bliss and Grief” by Susan L. Miller Kid’s Cloth Face Mask from Cat & JackTM by Belinda McKeon Call the Midwife by Leah Falk Slap Roti and the Story of New York City by Marc Aronson From The Journal of a Therapy Cat by Joyce Carol Oates Black and Gray by Teresa Politano Playing with Anxiety by Christian Lighty Virtual Class #219, March 2021, 2:50 p.m.–4:10 p.m.by Mackenzie Kean It’s Harder for Extroverts by Kelly-Jane Cotter The Old Has Passed Away, Behold, The New Has Come (2 Corinthians 5:17) by Stephen Masaryk Rutgers Spit Test by Nick Romanenko Connectivity, Connection, and Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Vikki Katz and Amy Jordan The Faculty Parent: Juggling Parenting, Teaching, Research, and Writing in Uncertain Times by Patricia Akhimie Resiliency, Resourcefulness, Responsibility, and Reinvention by David Dreyfus COVID-19 and Spaces of Confinement by Ulla D. Berg STOP! (2021) by Stephanie Boyer The Climate Crisis and the University by Robert E. Kopp 2020: A New Jersey Economy Reinvented by James W. Hughes Work in the Pandemic and Beyond by Adrienne E. Eaton The Tolling Bell by Katherine C. Epstein Stagecoach Mary by Kimberly Camp On Racism in Museums by Kimberly Camp STYLE Bird by Grace Lynne Haynes Meet Me at the Theater at the End of the World: Thirteen Illuminations and an Afterglow by Caridad Svich What Kind of Pain by Leslieann Hobayan Be Still by Leslieann Hobayan Sorrow by David Orr The Only Replacement by Ben Purkert Acknowledgments Notes Contributors Text Permissions

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Book SynopsisReflections on the Pandemic: COVID and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed is a collection of essays, poems, and artwork that captures the raw energy and emotion of 2020 from the perspective of the Rutgers University community. The project features work from a diverse group of Rutgers scholars, students, staff, and alumni. Reflecting on 2020 from a number of perspectives – mortality, justice, freedom, equality, democracy, family, health, love, hate, economics, history, medicine, science, social justice, the environment, art, food, sanity – the book features contributions by Evie Shockley, Joyce Carol Oates, Naomi Jackson, Ulla Berg, Grace Lynne Haynes, Jordan Casteel, and President Jonathan Holloway, among others. This book, through its rich and imaginative storytelling at the intersection of scholarly expertise and personal narrative, brings readers into the hearts and minds of not just the Rutgers community but the world. Contributors include: Patricia Akhimie, Marc Aronson, Ulla D. Berg, Stephanie Bonne, Stephanie Boyer, Kimberly Camp, Jordan Casteel, Kelly-Jane Cotter, Mark Doty, David Dreyfus, Adrienne E. Eaton, Katherine C. Epstein, Leah Falk, Paul G. Falkowski, Rigoberto González, James Goodman, David Greenberg, Angelique Haugerud, Grace Lynne Haynes, Leslieann Hobayan, Jonathan Holloway, James W. Hughes, Naomi Jackson, Amy Jordan, Vikki Katz, Mackenzie Kean, Robert E. Kopp, Christian Lighty, Stephen Masaryk, Louis P. Masur, Revathi V. Machan, Yalidy Matos, Belinda McKeon, Susan L. Miller, Yehoshua November, Joyce Carol Oates, Mary E. O’Dowd, Katherine Ognyanova, David Orr, Gregory Pardlo, Steve Pikiell, Teresa Politano, en Purkert, Nick Romanenko, Evie Shockley, Caridad Svich, and Didier William​.Trade Review"In Reflections on the Pandemic: Covid and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed, stories of personal experience and scholarly expertise shine light on the intricacies of the pandemic years...[it] covers a range of topics that were relevant to the pandemic, including science, health, racial injustice, environmental issues, politics, relationships, mortality and more." * New Jersey Monthly *“The accounts within this volume tell the story of the COVID-19 pandemic and its complex intersection with every facet of our lives. Our shared trauma, loss, resilience, and hope are reflected in its pages. I thank the Rutgers community for these important reflections and for all they did to propel us through those difficult days.” -- Governor Phil Murphy of New JerseyTable of Contents Preface Reflections in a COVID Photograph by Jonathan Holloway pantoum: 2020 by Evie Shockley Mercy (As If) by Mark Doty Writing My Last Book by Rigoberto González Taking the Court by Steve Pikiell The New Normal by Revathi V. Machan Emerging Not Stronger or Weaker but Different by Stephanie Bonne Looking for a Better End Game by Mary E. O’Dowd Pandemic Dispatches (East Africa–North America) by Angelique Haugerud War of the World: How Humans Became a Destructive Force of Nature by Paul G. Falkowski Jared (2020) by Jordan Casteel Reflections on Being Human in the Twenty-First Century by Yalidy Matos Risking Delight in the Middle of a Pandemic by Yehoshua November Days of 2020: Fear without Knowledge by Mark Doty A Litany for Survival by Naomi Jackson Sojourner Truth, Founding Mother by Grace Lynne Haynes A Letter to Juneteenth on the Embodied History of Life in 2020 by Gregory Pardlo We Cannot Escape History by Louis P. Masur Paying Attention by James Goodman A Reckoning with Names: Signs, Symbols, and the Meanings of History by David Greenberg The COVID States Project: Empowering a National Response by Katherine Ognyanova I’ve Missed You (2021) by Didier William Burning Bologna, 2021 by Susan L. Miller Pandemic Theology: “Bliss and Grief” by Susan L. Miller Kid’s Cloth Face Mask from Cat & JackTM by Belinda McKeon Call the Midwife by Leah Falk Slap Roti and the Story of New York City by Marc Aronson From The Journal of a Therapy Cat by Joyce Carol Oates Black and Gray by Teresa Politano Playing with Anxiety by Christian Lighty Virtual Class #219, March 2021, 2:50 p.m.–4:10 p.m.by Mackenzie Kean It’s Harder for Extroverts by Kelly-Jane Cotter The Old Has Passed Away, Behold, The New Has Come (2 Corinthians 5:17) by Stephen Masaryk Rutgers Spit Test by Nick Romanenko Connectivity, Connection, and Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Vikki Katz and Amy Jordan The Faculty Parent: Juggling Parenting, Teaching, Research, and Writing in Uncertain Times by Patricia Akhimie Resiliency, Resourcefulness, Responsibility, and Reinvention by David Dreyfus COVID-19 and Spaces of Confinement by Ulla D. Berg STOP! (2021) by Stephanie Boyer The Climate Crisis and the University by Robert E. Kopp 2020: A New Jersey Economy Reinvented by James W. Hughes Work in the Pandemic and Beyond by Adrienne E. Eaton The Tolling Bell by Katherine C. Epstein Stagecoach Mary by Kimberly Camp On Racism in Museums by Kimberly Camp STYLE Bird by Grace Lynne Haynes Meet Me at the Theater at the End of the World: Thirteen Illuminations and an Afterglow by Caridad Svich What Kind of Pain by Leslieann Hobayan Be Still by Leslieann Hobayan Sorrow by David Orr The Only Replacement by Ben Purkert Acknowledgments Notes Contributors Text Permissions

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Book SynopsisWhile New Jersey now frequently appears near the top in listings of America’s healthiest states, this has not always been the case. The fluctuations in the state’s overall levels of health have less to do with the lifestyle choices of individual residents and more to do with broader structural issues, ranging from pollution to urban design to the consolidation of the health care industry. This book uses the past fifty years of New Jersey history as a case study to illustrate just how much public policy decisions and other upstream factors can affect the health of a state’s citizens. It reveals how economic and racial disparities in health care were exacerbated by bad policies regarding everything from zoning to education to environmental regulation. The study further chronicles how New Jersey struggled to deal with public health crises like the AIDS epidemic and the crack epidemic. Yet it also explores how the state has developed some of the nation’s most innovative responses to public health challenges, and then provides policy suggestions for how we might build an even healthier New Jersey. Trade Review“Toward a Healthier Garden State is a wonderful resource for decision makers and educators, and an entertaining read for everyone who loves the Garden State. This book should be required reading for all elected and appointed officials throughout the state–a truly unique read.” -- Thomas A. Burke * Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University *Table of Contents Preface 1 Defining, Measuring, and Improving Health 2 The Winding Path to Better Health in New Jersey 3 Transportation Drives Population Shifts 4 Fixing Environmental Inequities: Cancer Alley 5 Health Disparities and the COVID-19 Pandemic 6 Housing and Education Interventions 7 Acute Natural and Man-Made Hazard Events 8 Reshuffling Health Care Epilogue: Confronting Challenges to a Healthier New Jersey—The Next 25 Years Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisWomen from Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia, who migrate to Guam, a U.S. territory, suffer disproportionately poor reproductive health outcomes. Though their access to the United States is unusually easy, through a unique migration agreement, it keeps them in a perpetual liminal state as nonimmigrants, who never fully belong as part of the United States Chuukese women move to Guam, sometimes with their families but sometimes alone, in search of a better life: for jobs, for the education system, or to access safe health care. Yet, the imperial system they encounter creates underlying conditions that greatly and disproportionately impact their ability to succeed and thrive, negatively impacting their reproductive health. Through clinical and community ethnography, Sarah A. Smith illuminates the way this system stratifies women’s reproduction at structural, social, and individual levels. Readers can visualize how U.S. imperialist policies of benign neglect control the body politic, change the social body, and render individual bodies vulnerable in the twenty-first century but also how people resist.Trade Review"Written with clarity, compassion, and theoretical acuity, Forgotten Bodies describes the reproductive health disparities of Micronesian migrant women in Guam, set within wider stories of imperialism, colonialism, and racism. This book will be valuable to students of decolonizing anthropology and Pacific Studies, to health practitioners committed to more equitable and adequate care, and to anyone who cares about the lives, struggles, and strengths of Chuukese women. "— Don Rubinstein, professor of Micronesian Studies at University of Guam "Based in deep ethnographic research, Smith's essential book challenges us to understand Chuukese women's poor reproductive health chances as a result of a broad set of imperial forces. We learn so much from this book about the gender and health damages the U.S. empire has wrought in Guam, Chuuk, and elsewhere in Micronesia."— Catherine Lutz, coeditor of War and Health: The Medical Consequences of the Wars in Iraq and AfghanistanTable of ContentsForeword by Lenore Manderson List of Abbreviations Introduction: Imperial Chuukese Bodies, Transnational Migration, and Stratified Reproduction in Guam 1 Imperial Occupations 2 Imperial Observations 3 Imperial Migrations 4 Reproducing Imperialism in the Body 5 Discourses of Imperial Sexuality 6 Contempt, Confusion, and Care in Guam’s Imperial Public Healthcare System 7 Resisting Imperial Effects Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisWomen from Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia, who migrate to Guam, a U.S. territory, suffer disproportionately poor reproductive health outcomes. Though their access to the United States is unusually easy, through a unique migration agreement, it keeps them in a perpetual liminal state as nonimmigrants, who never fully belong as part of the United States Chuukese women move to Guam, sometimes with their families but sometimes alone, in search of a better life: for jobs, for the education system, or to access safe health care. Yet, the imperial system they encounter creates underlying conditions that greatly and disproportionately impact their ability to succeed and thrive, negatively impacting their reproductive health. Through clinical and community ethnography, Sarah A. Smith illuminates the way this system stratifies women’s reproduction at structural, social, and individual levels. Readers can visualize how U.S. imperialist policies of benign neglect control the body politic, change the social body, and render individual bodies vulnerable in the twenty-first century but also how people resist.Trade Review"Based in deep ethnographic research, Smith's essential book challenges us to understand Chuukese women's poor reproductive health chances as a result of a broad set of imperial forces. We learn so much from this book about the gender and health damages the U.S. empire has wrought in Guam, Chuuk, and elsewhere in Micronesia." -- Catherine Lutz * coeditor of War and Health: The Medical Consequences of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan *"Written with clarity, compassion, and theoretical acuity, Forgotten Bodies describes the reproductive health disparities of Micronesian migrant women in Guam, set within wider stories of imperialism, colonialism, and racism. This book will be valuable to students of decolonizing anthropology and Pacific Studies, to health practitioners committed to more equitable and adequate care, and to anyone who cares about the lives, struggles, and strengths of Chuukese women. " -- Don Rubinstein * professor of Micronesian Studies at University of Guam *Table of ContentsForeword by Lenore Manderson List of Abbreviations Introduction: Imperial Chuukese Bodies, Transnational Migration, and Stratified Reproduction in Guam 1 Imperial Occupations 2 Imperial Observations 3 Imperial Migrations 4 Reproducing Imperialism in the Body 5 Discourses of Imperial Sexuality 6 Contempt, Confusion, and Care in Guam’s Imperial Public Healthcare System 7 Resisting Imperial Effects Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn both local and international imaginations, Vancouver, Canada, is often celebrated as one of the world’s most beautiful, cosmopolitan, and livable cities. Simultaneously, the city continues to be ground zero for successive waves of public health emergency and intervention, including a recent and unprecedented drug overdose crisis driven by the proliferation of illicitly manufactured fentanyl and related analogs in the local drug supply. In The Best Place: Addiction, Intervention, and Living and Dying Young in Vancouver, Danya Fast explores these politics of place from the perspectives of young people who use drugs. Those who are the subject of this book were in many ways relegated to the social, spatial, and economic margins of the city. Yet, they were also often at the very center of city life and state projects, including the project of protecting life in the context of the current overdose crisis.Trade Review"Wow! A gripping ethnography of the everyday ecstatic emergency and boredom of methamphetamine, fentanyl and failed relationships that cuts short the lives of Canadian youth—often indigenous—desperately seeking community, meaning and survival. Documents the dysfunctional meshes of care/jail/gentrification/predatory narcotics markets and human betrayals that betrays their persistent universally recognizable dreams/hopes against all odds for a better futures that never arrives." -- Philippe Bourgois * author of In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio and coauthor of Righteous Dopefiend *"The Best Place offers an analysis of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, British Columbia, a locale where young people's illicit drug use has received international attention. Fast has worked in this area for many, many years, developing long-term relationships with young drug users and health professionals. This is a collaboration that offers a model of multi-level analyses and showcases the hope of Fast's interlocutors for the future. Fast draws on their visions of possible futures, and on their critiques of current approaches, articulated with those of healthcare professionals. This is a book many have been waiting for." -- Dara Culhane * cofounder and cocurator for the Centre for Imaginative Ethnography *Table of Contents Foreword by Lenore Manderson Acknowledgments Dramatis Personae Places Introduction PART I: DREAMS OF PLACE Lee, the Best Place on Earth, 2009 Jeff, Paradise, 2009 Big-City Dreams Lula and Jeff, Paradise, 2012 Senses of Place Lee, World City, 2009 Where I’m Going, Lee, 2011 Jordan, Normal Places, 2012 Danya and Nancy, the Field, 2010 Lee, Not These Service Places, 2009 Jordan, Normal People, 2008 Frictions Danya, around Downtown, 2008 Janet and the Lost Boys, Never Never Land, 2008 Trajectories Carly and Connor, Family, 2009 Geographies Patty and Joe, Home, 2012 Part II: SOMETHING Patty, Coast Salish Territories, 2009 Vital Experimentation Shae, Lula, and Jeff, Lighthouse Shelter, 2009 Momentum Laurie and Aaron, Trafalgar Hotel, 2010 Moral Worlds Terry, Jail, 2011 Carly and Connor, Apartment, 2013 Stagnation Janet, Trafalgar Hotel, 2010 Patty and Joe, Mackenzie Hotel, 2010 Endless Business Terry, Field Office, 2012 Lee, Mackenzie Hotel, 2012 Reentering Never Never Land Jordan, Beachwood Hotel, 2013 74 Shae, Mackenzie Hotel, 2009 Disappearances Lee, Gone, 2015 PART III: LOST Patty, City of Glass, 2011 Community Care Patty and Joe, Lakeshore Hotel, 2010 Losing Everything Patty and Joe, St. Mary’s, 2012 Boredom Aaron, Northwest Apartments, 2013 (No)Exit, Shae, 2013 Flashbacks and Futures Patty, Terminal City, 2013 The Dance of Death Patty and Joe, St. Mary’s, 2013 Where We’ve Ended Up, Patty and Joe, 2013 Waiting Terry, St. Mary’s, 2014 Flights Patty and Joe, Lakeshore Hotel, 2014 PART IV: NOWHERE Patty, Saltwater City, 2017 The Will to Intervene Shane, Passages, 2017 Living on the Edge of Change Jessica, Horizons, 2018 Filling the Hours Shane, Downtown, 2017 Stalls and Dead Ends Lula, Wenonah House, 2016 Everything We Need, Carly and Connor, 2013 A Churn of Intervention Raymond, Downtown, 2017 The Colonial Present Aaron, Field Office, 2017 Living with Death Lula and Jeff, Field Office, 2017 The Broken Promise Land Janet, Johnny, Rachel, and Gordo, Camp under the Tracks, 2017 Exits, Janet, 2015 PART V: EVERYWHERE Jordan, Rain City, 2016 Laura, Field Office, 2017 Shae/Trix, Apartment, 2017 Janet, Recovery House, 2018 Exits, Janet, 2018 Terry, Psychiatric Ward, 2018 The Way Home, Terry, 2011 Laurie, Downtown, 2018 Aaron, Beachwood Hotel, 2019 Lula and Jeff, Greystone Hotel, 2019 Dom, BC Children’s Hospital, 2020 Carly and Connor, Field Office, 2018 Joe, Field Office, 2018 Patty, Everywhere, 2018 Where We’ve Ended Up, Patty and Joe, 2013 Afterword Notes References Index

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Book Synopsis Four decades have passed since reports of a mysterious “gay cancer” first appeared in US newspapers. In the ensuing years, the pandemic that would come to be called AIDS changed the world in innumerable ways. It also gave rise to one of the late twentieth century’s largest health-based empowerment movements. Scholars across diverse traditions have documented the rise of the AIDS activist movement, chronicling the impassioned echoes of protestors who took to the streets to demand “drugs into bodies.” And yet not all activism creates echoes. Included among the ranks of 1980s and 1990s-era AIDS activists were individuals whose expressions of empowerment differed markedly from those demanding open access to mainstream pharmaceutical agents. Largely forgotten today, this activist tradition was comprised of individuals who embraced unorthodox approaches for conceptualizing and treating their condition. Rejecting biomedical expertise, they shared alternative clinical paradigms, created underground networks for distributing unorthodox nostrums, and endorsed etiological models that challenged the association between HIV and AIDS. The theatre of their protests was not the streets of New York City’s Greenwich Village but rather their bodies. And their language was not the riotous chants of public demonstration but the often-invisible embrace of contrarian systems for defining and treating their disease. The Sounds of Furious Living seeks to understand the AIDS activist tradition, identifying the historical currents out of which it arose. Embracing a patient-centered, social historical lens, it traces historic shifts in popular understanding of health and perceptions of biomedicine through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to explain the lasting appeal of unorthodox health activism into the modern era. In asking how unorthodox health activism flourished during the twentieth century’s last major pandemic, Kelly also seeks to inform our understanding of resistance to biomedical authority in the setting of the twenty-first century’s first major pandemic: COVID-19. As a deeply researched portrait of distrust and disenchantment, The Sounds of Furious Living helps explain the persistence of movements that challenge biomedicine’s authority well into a century marked by biomedical innovation, while simultaneously posing important questions regarding the meaning and metrics of patient empowerment in clinical practice.Trade Review“The Sounds of Furious Living fits within the history of 'unorthodox' medicine, but in a more nuanced and theoretical way, providing new insight into this tradition that never really went away—there is nothing like this out there now. Matthew Kelly has done an impressive job.” -- Susan Reverby * author of Co-Conspirator for Justice: The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman *Table of ContentsList of Acronyms Introduction: Acknowledging the Everyday Part I: The Soils of Unorthodoxy: Irregular and Alternative Medicine in U.S. History 1 Situating Unorthodox AIDS Activism within the History of Medicine in the United States 2 A Broken Model: Twentieth-Century Transformations in the Social Constructions of Health and Disease 3 A Broken Trust: The Changing Character of Health Care Part II: The Seeds of Unorthodoxy: The Emergence of Unorthodox AIDS Activism 4 Everyday Unorthodoxies and the People with AIDS Coalition (PWAC) 5 Patient, Heal Thyself: The History of Health Education AIDS Liaison (HEAL) Conclusion: Listening to and Learning from the Sounds of Furious Living Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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