Medical sociology Books

Book SynopsisChapter 1. Practice – theory – practice: Learning from the experience of medical education.- Part I: Culture and Context.- Chapter 2. Socio-cultural contexts and medical education: Tales from four continents.- Chapter 3. Glocalisation of medical education: Impact and challenges.- Chapter 4. Exploring the root cause of stagnation in medical education.- Part II: Globalisation and its Problems.- Chapter 5. The ‘fast and fashionable’ syndrome.- Chapter 6. Standardisation: The root of the flat curve.- Chapter 7. Greater than the sum: International partnerships in medical education.- Part III: Negotiating Identities in Medical Education and Medicine.- Chapter 8. The road not taken: Transitioning to full-time medical education research from clinical practice as a junior doctor.- Chapter 9. Finding the centre of my Venn: Navigating experiences of identity challenge as a medical student.- Chapter 10. Medical education: What should we be teaching future generations?.- Part IV: Managing the System, the Profession, and the Business of Medical Education: The Neoliberal Project.- Chapter 11. The marginalisation of the medical profession and its impact on medical education. Lessons from Sweden.- Chapter 12. Medical leadership and management: Why should we bother?.- Chapter 13. Medical education in Brazil: Context and challenges.- Chapter 14. Walls and bridges: The professional relationship between academics and administrators.- Part V: Medical Education and the Workplace.- Chapter 15. When does a surgical trainee become competent to perform surgery?.- Chapter 16. Postgraduate surgical training and the workplace: A developing mismatch.- Chapter 17. Training during the real work of after-admitting ward rounds.- Part VI: The Power and Politics of Curriculum.- Chapter 18. Basic science in medical education: Switching it up.- Chapter 19. Is the current integrated approach to the medical curriculum obscuring what students need to learn for clinical practice?.- Chapter 20. Managing medical and dental curriculum reform in a sub-Saharan country.- Chapter 21. Bedside teaching: Understanding which tails wag the dog.- Chapter 22. The importance of first impressions: Exploring the hidden curriculum in medical education.- Chapter 23. The politics and contradictions of medical education.

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Book SynopsisA piercing and scientifically grounded look at the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic and how it will change the way we live—'excellent and timely.' (The New Yorker) Apollo's Arrow offers a riveting account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic as it swept through American society in 2020, and of how the recovery will unfold in the coming years. Drawing on momentous (yet dimly remembered) historical epidemics, contemporary analyses, and cutting-edge research from a range of scientific disciplines, bestselling author, physician, sociologist, and public health expert Nicholas A. Christakis explores what it means to live in a time of plague—an experience that is paradoxically uncommon to the vast majority of humans who are alive, yet deeply fundamental to our species.Unleashing new divisions in our society as well as opportunities for cooperation, this 21st-century pandemic has upended our lives in ways that will tes

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDoody's Core Titles® 2020 Essential Purchase "This is the third edition of a now-standard reference on a highly specialized subject. The author has thoroughly updated the material and, by adding new topics relevant to the changes in oncologic management and some specific techniques, has produced a book that amply justifies replacing the previous edition. It will be of value to specialists and trainees alike." -Carol Scott-Conner, MD, PhD, MBA (University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics) Doody's Review Score: 91-4 Stars!Table of ContentsSECTION 1 Introduction 1 History of Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery 2 Applied Embryology of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands 3 Thyroid Physiology and Thyroid Function Testing SECTION 2 Benign Thyroid Disease 4 Thyroiditis 5 Thyroglossal Duct Cysts and Ectopic Thyroid Tissue 6 Surgery of Cervical and Substernal Goiter 7 Approach to the Mediastinum: Transcervical, Transsternal, and Video-Assisted 8 Surgical Management of Hyperthyroidism 9 Reoperation for Benign Thyroid Disease SECTION 3 Preoperative Evaluation 10 The Evaluation and Management of Thyroid Nodules 11 Fine-Needle Aspiration of the Thyroid Gland: The 2017 Bethesda System 12 Fine-Needle Aspiration and Molecular Analysis 13 Ultrasound of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands 14 Preoperative Radiographic Mapping of Nodal Disease for Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma 15 Laryngeal Examination in Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery 16 Radiofrequency and Laser Ablation of Thyroid Nodules and Parathyroid Adenoma SECTION 4 Thyroid Neoplasia 17 Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Incidence 18 Molecular Pathogenesis of Thyroid Neoplasia 19 Papillary Thyroid Cancer 20 Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma 21 Papillary Carcinoma Observation 22 Follicular Thyroid Cancer 23 Noninvasive Follicular Thyroid Neoplasm With Papillary-Like Nuclear Features (NIFTP) 24 Dynamic Risk Group Analysis and Staging for Differentiated Thyroid Cancer 25 H?urthle Cell Tumors of the Thyroid 26 Sporadic Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma 27 Syndromic Medullary Thyroid Cancer: MEN 2A and MEN 2B 28 Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer and Primary Thyroid Lymphoma 29 Pediatric Thyroid Cancer 30 Familial Nonmedullary Thyroid Cancer SECTION 5 Thyroid and Neck Surgery 31 Principles in Thyroid Surgery 32 Robotic and Extracervical Approaches to the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands 33 Transoral Thyroidectomy 34 Minimally Invasive Video-Assisted Thyroidectomy 35 Surgical Anatomy and Monitoring of the Superior Laryngeal Nerve 36 Surgical Anatomy and Monitoring of the Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve 37 Surgery for Locally Advanced Thyroid Cancer: Larynx, Tracheal Invasion, and Esophageal 38 Central Neck Dissection: Indications and Technique 39 Lateral Neck Dissection: Indications and Technique 40 Incisions in Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery 41 Surgical Pathology of the Thyroid Gland SECTION 6 Postoperative Considerations 42 Pathophysiology of Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Injury 43 Management of Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Paralysis 44 Nonneural Complications of Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery 45 Quality Assessment in Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery 46 Ethics and Malpractice in Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery SECTION 7 Postoperative Management 47 Postoperative Management of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer 48 Postoperative Radioactive Iodine Ablation and Treatment of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer 49 External Beam Radiotherapy for Thyroid Malignancy 50 Reoperative Thyroid Surgery 51 Nonsurgical Treatment of Thyroid Cysts, Nodules, Thyroid Cancer Nodal Metastases, and Hyperparathyroidism: The Role of Percutaneous Ethanol Injection 52 Medical Treatment Horizons for Metastatic Differentiated and Medullary Thyroid Cancer SECTION 8 Parathyroid Surgery 53 Primary Hyperparathyroidism: Pathophysiology, Surgical Indications, and Preoperative Workup 54 Guide to Preoperative Parathyroid Localization Testing 55 Principles in Surgical Management of Primary Hyperparathyroidism 56 Standard Bilateral Parathyroid Exploration 57 Minimally Invasive Single Gland Parathyroid Exploration 58 Minimally Invasive Video-Assisted Parathyroidectomy 59 Intraoperative PTH Monitoring During Parathyroid Surgery 60 Surgical Management of Multiglandular Parathyroid Disease 61 Surgical Management of Secondary and Tertiary Hyperparathyroidism 62 Parathyroid Management in the MEN Syndromes 63 Revision Parathyroid Surgery 64 Parathyroid Carcinoma 65 Surgical Pathology of the Parathyroid Glands

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Book SynopsisComplementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is a fascinating and fast-changing area of medicine. This book explores the challenging issues associated with CAM in the context of the social, political and cultural influences that shape people''s health. It: provides an overview of social change, consumption and debates arising from the increased public interest in CAM, arguing for and against different classifications discusses how CAM developed in a political and historical context, critically assessing the importance of ethics and values to CAM practice and how these inform what practitioners do analyzes the question of what people want, the changing contested nature of health, and the nature of personal and social factors associated with the use of CAM examines the diversity of settings in which CAM takes place explores the social, political and economic milieu in which CAM is provided and used. The book is one of threTable of ContentsPart 1: CAM Organisation: Safety and Standards 1. Knowledge, names, fraud and trust, Geraldine Lee-Treweek 2. Education and training in CAM, Lorraine Williams, Julie Stone and Geraldine Lee-Treweek 3. Regulation and control, Geraldine Lee Treweek 4. Political power and professionalisation, Mike Saks and Geraldine Lee-Treweek 5. Homoeopathy: principles, practice and controversies, Phil Nicholls, Geraldine Lee-Treweek and Tom Heller Part 2: Researching CAM 6. A critical look at orthodoxy medical approaches, Tom Heller, Dick Heller and Gavin Yamey 7. Understanding research, Hilary MacQueen, Sheena Murdoch and Andrew Vickers 8. Researching CAM interventions, Tom Heller 9. Evaluating CAM practice, Tom Heller, Dione Hills and Elaine Weatherly-Jones

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Book SynopsisGeno-technology is a technology unlike any other, with significant implications for life in the 21st century. It directly affects us at a deeply personal level, it poses a threat to the boundaries which conventionally define selfhood, it generates potentially novel risks and dangers, and it threatens the very basis of accepted understandings of culture and society. This unique, exploratory volume discusses the ethical, cultural and philosophical issues surrounding the search for the ''book of life'', focusing on the mapping of the human genome in Britain, the USA and Europe. It examines the impact of genetically modified crops, food and pharmacogenomics, along with the science and technology policy issues deriving from the human genome project. The authors investigate the potential risks and implications of the new genetics and conclude with a discussion of how nature may be reconfigured to underpin developments in health, commerce, state regulation and the law, both on a local andTrade Review’A thorough, stimulating and well-researched account. Glasner and Rothman take the reader from the competitive science of the human genome project to the global strategies of the biotechnology business. Gene technology raises fundamental issues of governance, ethics and citizenship. Splicing Life? represents an essential guide to this fascinating field.’ Professor Alan Irwin, Brunel University, UK ’...the authors offer an interesting perspective on the important matter of human genetics research, technology and society.’ Nursing EthicsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; The hunt for the holy grail: compiling the book of life; Doing the human genome project; Managing genetic information; 'Frankenstein' foods, or the revenge of the genetically modified potatoes; Globalization and the transformation of nature; From commodification to commercialization; Rights or rituals: involving the people; New genetics, new millennium, new society?; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis companion provides an indispensable overview of contemporary and classical issues in social and cultural anthropology. Although anthropology has expanded greatly over time in terms of the diversity of topics in which its practitioners engage, many of the broad themes and topics at the heart of anthropological thought remain perennially vital, such as understanding order and change, diversity and continuity, and conflict and co-operation in the reproduction of social life. Bringing together leading scholars in the field, the contributors to this volume provide us with thoughtful and fruitful ways of thinking about a number of contemporary and long-standing arenas of work where both established and more recent researchers are engaged. The companion begins by exploring classic topics such as Religion; Rituals; Language and Culture; Violence; and Gender. This is followed by a focus on current developments within the discipline including Human Rights; Globalization; and Diasporas and Cosmopolitanism. It provides an interesting and challenging look at the state of current thinking in anthropology, serving as a rich resource for scholars and students alike.Trade Review’This is a rich source of anthropological approaches to significant social and cultural issues across the globe. The subject matter is topical, the contributors are scholars of renown and the analyses are informed by detailed empirical inquiry. The collection is a valuable resource for scholars, teachers, students and general readers.’ David Trigger, University of Queensland, Australia ’The editors and authors are to be congratulated for this compelling companion to research in what it means to be human. Twenty anthropologists provide rich synopses of anthropology’s intellectual heritage in their critical appraisals of key concepts long central to the discipline - belief systems, ritual, magic, sacrifice, myth, gender, war, violence, globalisation, language change and loss, indigenous knowledge and so on. More than the sum of its parts, this volume situates anthropological research as absolutely essential to understanding humanity’s past, present and possible futures.’ Naomi M. McPherson, University of British Columbia, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction, Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart. Part I Religion, Experience and Change: Healing, Geoffrey Samuel; Embodiment, performance and healing, Anne Sigfrid Grønseth; Mortuary rituals, Satsuki Kawano. Part II Ritual, Myth and Creativity: Anthropology, dreams and creativity, Katie Glaskin; Sacrifice, Kathryn McClymond; Charisma and myth, Raphael Falco. Part III Work, Play and Gender: Secular rituals, Margit Warburg; Anthropology of sport, John W. Traphagan; Gender, Victoria Goddard; Gender and space, Susan Rasmussen. Part IV Studies of World Religions: Christianity: an (in-)constant companion?, Simon Coleman; On Muslims and the navigation of religiosity: notes on the anthropology of Islam, David W. Montgomery. Part V Perspectives on Violence and Globalization: Ethnographies of political violence, Sami Hermez; Warfare and ritual in anthropology, Bryan K. Hanks; Globalization and its contradictions, Thomas Hylland Eriksen. Part VI Emergent Themes: Languages in change, Jonathan D. Hill and Juan Luis Rodriguez; Indigenous knowledge, Paul Sillitoe; Philosophy in anthropology, Nigel Rapport; Anthropology and the Iliad, Margo Kitts; Disaster anthropology, Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew J. Strathern. Index.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWritten lyrically and with brilliant clarity across multiple genres, this book continually invites new possibilities, “provoking to clarify.” I am aware of no other book that sustains an inquiry into the relationship between medical humanities and disability studies—much less one that uses the conjunctions and disjunctions between them to critique both disciplines. -- Martha Stoddard Holmes, Professor of Literature and Writing Studies, California State University, USASharp and on target, Stuart Murray offers readers a foray into the intersections of the medical humanities and disability studies, their lacunae, and possibilities. Murray draws on memoir and personal experience to demonstrate how an “indisciplined” approach to life writing provokes potentials for change through an appeal to “agility” in our conceptions of ill-health, disability, and disorder and their roles in medicine, care, and social theory. Compelling and compulsive in its argumentation—Medical Humanities and Disability Studies is the kind of book we need more of. We should all be so indisciplined! -- Matthew Wolf-Meyer, author of 'Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age' and 'The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine and American Everyday Life'Medical Humanities and Disability Studies argues against insularity and choosing sides in favour of an agile, indisciplined mode of criticism that embraces generative doubt and productive troubling. With a variety of women’s life narratives as its strong foundation, and richly affective personal vignettes as its spine, Stuart Murray’s book is packed with insights and provocations: from the agile chapter titles and paths taken to find the words and form for his work, to the manifold manifestations of difference/same in experiences of health and disability, and the “in/un/ill-disciplined” acts of drawing on the working methods of one discipline to critique the success of the other. In modelling the intellectual and creative agility found within its archive, this book offers a sensitive and compelling exploration of the fusions of life stories and critical frames and of the complex interweavings of medical humanities and disability studies. -- Stella Bolaki, Reader in American Literature and Medical Humanities and Co-Director, Centre for Health and Medical Humanities, University of Kent, UKBy turns forceful and tender, indisciplined and agile, this book embodies what it might mean to think with and between Disability Studies and Medical Humanities. Holding to the conceptual complexity and political force of lived experience, this is a vital, unsettling, beautiful book. -- Laura Salisbury, Professor of Modern Literature and Medical Humanities, University of Exeter, UKTable of Contents1. Undiagnosed 2. Introduction: Missing Words, or Not Otherwise Specified Reflection 1: 342 Green 3. Chapter 1: Medical/Disabled, Different/Same Reflection 2: Sunday in the Park with Lucas 4. Chapter 2: Disability Minds Medicine Health Reflection 3: Straps 5. Chapter 3: Medicine Bodies Health Disability Reflection 4: Outside the Frame 6. Conclusion: Agile Last

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Book SynopsisProvides an understanding of the complex contribution illness narratives make to contemporary culture and the emergent field of Critical Medical Humanities.

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Book SynopsisHIV/AIDS and HIV/AIDS-Related Terminology: A Means of Organizing the Body of Knowledge offers an adaptable and extensive framework for organizing the ever-expanding number of resources on the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It lays down the groundwork upon which future blocks of information can be placed. As new information becomes available, it can be integrated into this system without rearranging the information already stored. This saves the time and money associated with revising a less flexible existing system. The book’s instructions for use and taxonomic classification system make it easy to use. HIV/AIDS and HIV/AIDS-Related Terminology is designed for use in any setting where HIV/AIDS healthcare or information services are provided. It acts as a guide to available resources and illustrates how to acquire the most up-to-date information. At the same time, it moves beyond the more general focus on the clinical, legal, and medical ramifications of HIV/AIDS to the development of an interdisciplinary cataloging system that includes all issues and topics associated with the disease. This invaluable reference tool leaves no rock unturned. It addresses every conceivable facet of the epidemic, from the psychological to the religious and from the economic to the social. Any organizations or institutions concerned with the collection, creation, management, and dissemination of HIV/AIDS-related materials will find this book an essential for their libraries. Practical and comprehensive, HIV/AIDS and HIV/AIDS-Related Terminology addresses a full range of topics, including: prevention and education epidemiology and transmission treatment funding opportunities health policy HIV/AIDS and the fine artsHIV/AIDS and HIV/AIDS-Related Terminology is the first book to provide a method for grappling with the vast scope of information on the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Its organic structure is designed to accommodate new knowledge as it becomes available, while it maximizes access to existing information in a variety of formats. Table of ContentsContents Introduction Instructions for Use Index of Domains and Main Headings Domains and Headings Universal Subdivisions Alphabetic Index

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Book SynopsisThis book provides geographic perspectives and approaches for use in assessing the distribution of environmental health hazards and disease outcomes among disadvantaged population groups. Estimates suggest that about forty per cent of the global burden of disease is attributable to exposures to biological and chemical pathogens in the physical environment. And with today's rapid rate of globalization, and these hazardous health effects are likely to increase, with low income and underrepresented communities facing even greater risks. In many places around the world, marginalized communities unwillingly serve as hosts of noxious facilities such as chemical industrial plants, extractive facilities (oil and mining) and other destructive land use activities. Others are being used as illegal dumping grounds for hazardous materials and electronic wastes resulting in air, soil and groundwater contamination. The book informs readers about the geography and emergent health risks that accompany the location of these hazards, with emphasis on vulnerable population groups. The approach is applications-oriented, illustrating the use of health data and geographic approaches to uncover the root causes, contextual factors and processes that produce contaminated environments. Case studies are drawn from the author's research in the United States and Africa, along with a literature review of related studies completed in Europe, Asia and South America. This comparative approach allows readers to better understand the manifestation of environmental hazards and inequities at different spatial scales with localized disparities evident in both developed and developing countries.Trade Review'This book is comprehensive, and provides material which will be excellent for both introductory and graduate level courses in environmental health, environmental justice, social justice, health geography and population health. Conceptualizations of race and ethnicity and discussions of the role of social and economic factors in health disparities add to the strength of the book.' Isaac Luginaah, Associate Professor & Canada Research Chair in Health Geography, The University of Western Ontario, Canada 'A much needed reference in medical geography and environmental epidemiology that is richly illustrated and offers an accessible introduction to the visualization and spatial analysis of environmental health data. Academics now have the perfect tool to expose undergraduate and master students to the fascinating world of medical and environmental geography applied to important societal issues, such as environmental justice and health disparities.' Pierre Goovaerts, Chief Scientist, BioMedware Inc. 'Using different geographic scales and an integrative approach, this outstanding book analyzes the social injustices and disparities in context of environmental hazards and associated health risks. This is the first book of its kind to critically explore the interactions among environmental hazards, heath, and social justice. Florence M. Margai is a dedicated scholar who has been studying environmental and social disparities throughout her career. The book is very interesting and valuable; it is well researched and extremely insightful.' Bimal Kanti Paul, Professor, Department of Geography, Kansas State University, USATable of ContentsPart 1: Themes and Concepts 1. Geographic Foundations of Environmental Health Hazards: The Need for A Place-Based Perspective 2. Environmental Health and Disease Indicators: Valuation Measures, Transition Frameworks, and Burden of Disease Estimates 3. Population Health Disparities and Social Injustices: Indicators and Spatial Patterns 4. Conceptualization and Measurement of Race, Ethnicity and Class 5. Environmental Health Data Collection, Analysis and Visualization: An Overview of Geographic Methodologies Part 2: Environmental Aspects of Health Disparities 6. Global Climate Change and Environmental Degradation: Place Vulnerability and Public Health Challenges 7. A Spatial Analysis of Emergent and Re-Emergent Public Health Risks 8. Toxic Chemicals: Disparate Patterns of Exposure and Health Outcomes 9. Geographic Principles of Environmental Justice and Equity 10. Global Geographies Environmental Injustice and Health Inequities 11. Population Disparities in Water Access, Sanitation and Health Implications 12. Food Justice, Nutritional Security and Pediatric Health Outcomes Part 3: Social Attributes and Economic Factors in Population Health Disparities 13. Poverty, Race and Place: A Triple Whammy Hypothesis for Minority Health Geographies 14. Globalization, Population Mobility and Immigrant Health Disparities 15. Group Disparities in Access, Quality and Utilization of Health Resources 16. Exploring Pathways to Environmental, Health and Social Equity

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Book SynopsisBildungschancen sind in allen westlichen Gesellschaften sozial ungleich verteilt, ebenso wie die Chancen auf ein gesundes Aufwachsen von Kindern. Ausgehend von der Annahme, dass Gesundheit eine bildungsrelevante Ressource ist, untersucht Julia Tuppat mit Hilfe einer theoriegeleiteten empirischen Studie Effekte früher gesundheitlicher Beeinträchtigungen auf Bildungsergebnisse. Hierbei zeigt sich, dass gesundheitliche Ungleichheit im Kindesalter einen zusätzlichen Wirkpfad der intergenerationalen Transmission von ungleichen Bildungschancen darstellt.Table of ContentsSoziale Ungleichheit in Bildung und Gesundheit bei Kindern.- Zusammenhang zwischen Gesundheit und Bildungsergebnissen bei Kindern.- Integration von Gesundheit in ein theoretisches Erklärungsmodell zur Genese von ungleichen Bildungschancen.- Effekte gesundheitlicher Beeinträchtigungen auf schulische Leistungen und Bildungsentscheidungen.

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Book SynopsisMigraine is a disabling, and painful disorder that affects over 36 million Americans. Nevertheless, it is frequently dismissed, ignored, and delegitimized. The author argues that this general dismissal of migraine can be traced back to the gendered social values embedded in the way we talk about, understand, and make policies for people in pain.Trade Review"Kempner's incisive work analyzes migraine medicine and its gendered subtext as practitioners sought to make sense of the mind/body actions or interactions causing the common, yet devastating pain of sufferers. The book is beautifully written, with a moving preface in which Kempner locates herself as a fellow migraine sufferer as well as ethnographic observer." (Linda Blum, Northeastern University)"

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Book SynopsisOffers a nuanced, empirically grounded picture of therapeutic culture. This title includes both an extended history and a series of critical interventions organized around keywords like pain, privacy, and narcissism. It will change the way we've been taught to see the landscape of therapy and self-help.Trade Review"Engaging and thought-provoking, the seventeen essays included here do a fine job of suggesting that the therapeutic is indeed best understood as a uniquely American culture-one where institutions and individuals come together to shape values and ideals. Rethinking Therapeutic Culture strikes exactly the right tone to raise cogent questions about the meaning and context of therapeutics in the twenty-first century." (Wendy Kline, author of Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women's Health in the Second Wave)

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWombs in Labor is an absorbing and meticulously researched work. Amrita Pande fruitfully scrutinises the minutiae of interactions among surrogates and the community of a clinic for their underlying meaning... recommended to anyone interested in the subject of surrogacy and will please all readers. LSE Review of Books Wombs in Labor is an important book that sheds light on the workings of transnational commercial surrogacy in India... This book is a valuable read for anyone interested in commercial surrogacy, global inequality and women's labor. -- Koh Sin Yee Asian Review of Books A theoretically sophisticated and nuanced ethnography of interest to scholars in South Asian studies, women's studies, reproductive health, and labor studies. Choice At times heart-wrenching, Pande's ethnographic research provides a detailed and empathetic look at the business of India's surrogacy industry... Journal of International Womens Studies an excellent contribution to undergraduate or graduate classes on globalization, reproduction, gender, or work. -- Anna Curtis Gender and Society a fascinating look at the world of the Indian surrogate and the choice she makes in an effort to better her and her family's economic status. -- Sarah Thomas Journal of International Women's Studies Wombs in Labor is foundational. -- Rajani Bhatia Womens Review of Books Wombs in Labor is a valuable and timely contribution to the steadily increasing scholarship on assisted reproductive technologies and is a fascinating addition to the anthropology of work. Anthropology of Work Review A must-read for students of labor, gender, and reproductive politics. -- Sumit Guha H-AsiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: Wombs in Labor 2. Pro-natal Technologies in an Anti-natal State 3. When the Fish Talk About the Water 4. Manufacturing the Perfect Mother-Worker 5. Everyday Divinities and God's Labor 6. Embodied Labor and Neo-eugenics 7. Disposable Workers and Dirty Labor 8. Disposable Mothers and Kin Labor 9. Conclusion: Aporia of Surrogacy Epilogue: Did the "Sperm on a Rickshaw" Save the Third World? Appendix A. Selected Clauses from the Assisted Reproductive Technologies (Regulation) Draft Bill Appendix B. Consent Form to Be Signed by Surrogates Appendix C. Descriptive Tables Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisUrban slum dwellers - especially in emerging-economy countries - are often poor, live in squalor, and suffer unnecessarily from disease, premature death, and reduced life expectancy. This book exposes how and why slums can be unhealthy and reveals that not all slums are equal in terms of the hazards and health issues faced by residents.Trade Review"Ultimately, the editors’ conviction in convening Slum Health: From the Cell to the Street is resoundingly clear: Scholars of all stripes have a responsibility “to recognize the human right of the urban poor to lead a healthy life and to offer some strategies toward this goal”. This volume moves us forward on both counts." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Refreshing and new, ... the volume offers an extremely helpful opening to a realm of medical science literature relating to informal settlements." * Latin America Research Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Prelude: Memoirs of a Kenya Slum Dweller Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Jason Corburn and Lee Riley Part One. Slum Health: Framing Research, Practice, and Policy 1. From the Cell to the Street: Coproducing Slum Health Jason Corburn and Lee Riley 2. Slum Health: Research to Action Alon Unger and Lee Riley 3. Frameworks for Slum Health Equity Jason Corburn 4. Urban Poverty: An Urgent Public Health Issue Susan Mercado, Kirsten Havemann, Mojgan Sami, and Hiroshi Ueda 5. Urban Informal Settlement Upgrading and Health Equity Jason Corburn and Alice Sverdlik Part Two. From The Cell to the Street: Slum Health in Brazil 101 6. Favela Health in Pau da Lima, Salvador, Brazil Alon Unger, Albert Ko, and Guillermo Douglass-Jaime 7. Impact of Environment and Social Gradient on Leptospira Infection in Urban Slums Renato B. Reis, Guilherme S. Ribeiro, Ridalva D. M. Felzemburgh, Francisco S. Santana, Sharif Mohr, Astrid X. T. O. Melendez, Adriano Queiroz, Andréia C. Santos, Romy R. Ravines, Wagner S. Tassinari, Marília S. Carvalho, Mitermayer G. Reis, and Albert I. Ko 8. Factors Associated with Group A Streptococcus emm Type Diversification in a Large Urban Setting in Brazil: A Cross-Sectional Study Sara Y. Tartof, Joice N. Reis, Aurelio N. Andrade, Regina T. Ramos, Mitermayer G. Reis, and Lee W. Riley Part Three. urban upgrading and health in nairobi, kenya 149 9. Coproducing Slum Health in Nairobi, Kenya Jason Corburn and Jack Makau 10. Sanitation and Women’s Health in Nairobi’s Slums Jason Corburn and Irene Karanja 11. Microsavings and Well-Being in a Nairobi Informal Settlement Jason Corburn, Jane Wairutu, Joseph Kimani, Benson Osumba, and Heena Shah Part Four. Understanding Slum Health in Urban India 12. Health Disparities in Urban India Siddharth Agarwal 13. Improved Health Outcomes in Urban Slums through Infrastructure Upgrading Neel M. Butala, Michael J. Van Rooyen, and Ronak Bhailal Patel Part Five. Knowledge Gaps and Future Considerations 14. Toward Slum Health Equity: Research, Action, and Training Jason Corburn and Lee Riley 275 List of Contributors Index 301

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Book SynopsisIn 2005, American experts sent out urgent warnings throughout the country: a devastating flu pandemic was fast approaching. Influenza was a serious disease, not a seasonal nuisance; it could kill millions of people. This book explores how American experts framed a catastrophe that never occurred.Trade Review"Caduff's detailed analysis of the sites, practices, and poetics of scientific authority and claim-making, in and through both uncertainties and indeterminacy, is uniquely insightful and compelling. His attentive, detailed, and discerning ethnography performs its own variety of dramatic work-the text itself is a delightful and gripping read. It is both an erudite collection of insights about that which goes into and makes up the contemporary world of 'scientific prophecy.' Caduff offers a surplus of generative ideas and his own brand of creativity and complexity in thinking through the politics of pandemic preparedness." Raad Fadaak, McGill University "In Carlo Caduff's brilliant ethnography The Pandemic Perhaps, we enter a world of delayed apocalypse. The HnNn mutation of the influenza virus is on the radar of the WHO; scientists prognosticate the next pandemic; preparedness measures are put in place by public health organizations; a flu vaccine is ready to be shipped by the pharmaceutical company. But, once more suspended, the pandemic does not happen today. To think about the intersection of scientific uncertainty and its relationship to the millennial public health message Caduff's The Pandemic Perhaps is just the right companion." Karen Jent, University of Cambridge "It is the strange serendipity of maternity leave that finds me reading 10:04 and The Pandemic Perhaps at odd hours and in tandem; two books for which hurricanes-or, more specifically, the preparations they precipitate-relay the condensed temporality of the coming catastrophe, a dovetailing of past perils and precarious futures for which a New York City 'on the brink' provides a hyperactive backdrop. Through often-exquisite prose (Lerner is a poet; Caduff's formulations can approximate verse) these authors explore the worlds that surface and dissolve under the shadow of prediction and the modes of attention that give them their shape." Ann Kelly, King's College London "I consider this book as a great contribution for the anthropology of life. Caduff's excellent investigation, both ethnographic and historical, offers a very convincing analysis of the material and conceptual configurations in which viruses are engaged, hence demonstrating the value of approaches which explore the agency of living beings and vital processes. He offers insightful ideas that shed new light on fundamental aspects of life. Focusing on the unique sort of beings viruses are, The Pandemic Perhaps constitutes, without any doubt, a very important work." Perig Pitrou, College de France "The Pandemic Perhaps presents a thoughtful ethnographic examination of the public culture of danger, specifically as the contemporary sense of impending doom has come to be linked ever more tightly to the assumed threat of a deadly influenza pandemic. More specifically still, it is a journey through the scientific, as well as governmental and corporate, reconstruction of the United States in the name of pandemic preparedness at a time when the biological world appears to be getting out of our control." Merrill Singer, Medical Anthropology Quarterly "Carlo Caduff's The Pandemic Perhaps is a story of the influenza pandemic that never was. Caduff tells this story from an American perspective through his encounters with scientists and other actors who engage in the august work of "preparedness," but in doing so, often draw upon and amplify an apocalyptic imaginary that doubtless shapes scientific and public priorities (and fears). With lucid and critical detail Caduff shows how forms of prophecy (new and old) push catastrophe towards further and further horizons." Todd Meyers, NYU Shanghai Caduff's book adds much to the history and social science of public health and infectious disease and will be of value to anyone interested in global health, influenza, or epidemiology. Bulletin of the History of MedicineTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 * A Ferret's Sneeze 2 * On the Run 3 * Casualties of Contagion 4 * Experiments of Concern 5 * A Real Test 6 * The Great Deluge Epilogue Note on the Cover Image Notes Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis* Explores the links between health and globalization. * Considers important issues such as the global spread of pandemics (such as swine flu and bird flu), effects of migration, and health care systems across the world.Trade Review"This book is an excellent contribution to our understanding of the extraordinarily complex relationship between globalization and health/illness as well as the positive and negative implications of this relationship. It also provides a most useful source of bibliographical materials on the subject."Mark Field, Harvard University "This book provides new, useful information on health, especially the idea of global public health and sections on health behavior. It is a great addition to the growing interests in global health."Jennie Kronenfeld, Arizona State University "This is an easy to read general introduction to the complex relationship between globalization and health. It is up to date and coversmany issues currently under debate in health policy and health care organization."Fred Stevens, Maastricht UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1. Defining Globalization. Chapter 2. Globalization: Health Benefits and Risks. Chapter 3. Globalization and Disease. Chapter 4. Globalization and Health Care: The United States. Chapter 5. Globalization and Health Care in Selected Countries. Chapter 6. Actors in Global Health Governance. Chapter 7. Global Health and Governance: Public Goods and Collective Action. Concluding Remarks. References.

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Book SynopsisThe second edition of Mildred Blaxter''s successful and highly respected book offers a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the key debates surrounding the concept of health today. It discusses how health is defined, constructed, experienced and acted out in contemporary developed societies, drawing on a range of empirical data from the USA, Britain, France, and many other countries. The new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, with new material added on health and identity, the new genetics, the sociology of the body, and the formation of health capital throughout the life course. The topic is the concept of health, rather than the more usual emphasis on illness and health-care systems. Special emphasis is given to the lay perspective to show how people themselves think about and experience health. Blaxter guides students through all the relevant conceptual models of the relationship of health to the structure of society, from inequality in health to the ideas ofTrade Review"A great text: revised and updated for students of health, whatever their discipline or background. Changes in science, technology and our understanding of the body are among the many important topics covered. Mildred Blaxter writes in a lucid style and has a command of her material that is second to none. Highly recommended." Mike Bury, Royal Holloway, University of London "Updated and with new material, this book provides a fascinating insight into the phenomenon of health and how it is defined, constructed, expressed and experienced. Written in a clear and engaging style, it is an indispensable resource for students and researchers in the health and social sciences." Ellen Annandale, University of Leicester "This fine book takes sociological perspectives of health as a point of departure, while at the same time increasing our understanding of illness. Students and professionals alike will benefit from Blaxter's clear and succinct presentation." Peter Conrad, Brandeis UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. How is health defined? Health as the absence of illness. Disease as deviance. Health as balance or homeostasis. Health as function. Health as state or status. The biomedical model. Contemporary biomedicine. The social model. Health, disease, illness and sickness. How is health measured? Health capital. 2. How is health constructed? Health as social construction. Constructions of history. Constructions of culture. Constructivism and feminism. Illness, labelling and stigma. Constructions of mental illness. Constructions of disability. The critique of relativism. Medicalisation and the constructions of medical practice. 3. How is health embodied and experienced? Embodiment. Lay definitions of health. Social representations of health. Self-rated health. Concepts of the causes of health and illness. Health histories and subjective health capital. Illness narratives. Limitations of narrative. The search for meaning. Health as moral discourse and metaphor. Responsibility for health. 4. How is health enacted? The rise and fall of 'illness behaviour'. Person to patient: help-seeking behaviour. The patient role. Control and concordance. Enacted behaviour. Behaving 'healthily'. Structure/agency: health as cultural consumption. Structure/agency: health as self-governance. 5. How is health related to social systems? A functional relationship. Responses to functionalism. Medicine and society. Health, economic development and social organization. The downside of economic development. The concept of inequality in health. The nature and extent of inequalities. The causes of inequality. The socio-biologic translation. Neo-materialistic explanations. Social capital. 6. Contemporary change in the meaning of health. Technology and postmodernity. Changing boundaries between ill and not-ill. Changing boundaries of life and death. Changing boundaries between self and not-self. Changing boundaries between therapy and enhancement. Information technologies and medical practice. Changing attitudes to health and medicine. New technologies and the risk society. Evolutionary medicine. Conclusion. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe role that the social and behavioural sciences play in the daily practice of dentistry is now an essential part of all dentistry training, but it can often seem distant from the reality of daily clinical practice.Trade Review�This new book represents a pioneering effort to bring important selected topics and practical examples from sociology and psychology to students of dentistry. Having participated in such a course at my own university, I can highly recommend this book.�William C. Cockerham, University of Alabama at Birmingham �This book comprehensively and critically discusses the application of health psychology and health sociology concepts to oral health. It is essential reading for oral health professionals and will help them introduce behavioural sciences in their everyday practice and also facilitate better understanding of the overall context of oral health care provision.�Georgios Tsakos, University College LondonTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: The Social Context of Oral Health and DiseaseChapter 2: Poverty, Inequality and Oral HealthChapter 3: Gender and Oral HealthChapter 4: Ethnicity and Oral HealthChapter 5: Oral Health in Later LifeChapter 6: Disability and Oral HealthChapter 7: Symptoms and Help-SeekingChapter 8: Adherence and Behaviour Change in Dental SettingsChapter 9: Stress and HealthChapter 10: Issues in Social PsychologyChapter 11: Pain and Dental AnxietyChapter 12: Communication in the Dental SurgeryChapter 13: The Dentist in SocietyReferences

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Book SynopsisPain in one form or another is probably the most common symptom presented to medical and healthcare professionals. Long a subject of biomedical interest, more recent biopsychosocial theories have extended the study of pain as a concept which is highly individual in the way it is experienced.Trade ReviewFirst Prize in Health and Social Care in the 2018 BMA Medical Book Awards "Elaine Denny has written a lively survey of research illuminating the experience of pain with a focus on the implications for clinical practice and policy. Problematising medical assumptions of objectivity around pain assessment, diagnosis and treatment that compound the experience of pain, this accessible book offers a strong critique of current clinical practice." Hannah Bradby, Uppsala University, Sweden"Given that the topic of pain covers such a vast spectrum including culture, religion, politics, science, medicine, and the arts, amongst others, this book does an impressive job of summarising these various, often conflicting, elements, giving the reader an excellent overview of its diverse philosophies. A must-read for those with a genuine interest in learning more about the field of pain."Paul Cameron, University of DundeeTable of Contents Introduction Chapter 1: Historical Perspectives on Pain Chapter 2: Sociological Theory, Concepts and Pain Chapter 3: The Experience of Pain Chapter 4: Care and Care Services for Pain Chapter 5: Structures of Diversity and Pain Chapter 6: Pain as an Contested Experience Chapter 7: Emotional Pain and Suffering Chapter 8: Health Professionals’ Experience of Pain Chapter 9 Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisPain in one form or another is probably the most common symptom presented to medical and healthcare professionals. Long a subject of biomedical interest, more recent biopsychosocial theories have extended the study of pain as a concept which is highly individual in the way it is experienced.Trade ReviewFirst Prize in Health and Social Care in the 2018 BMA Medical Book Awards "Elaine Denny has written a lively survey of research illuminating the experience of pain with a focus on the implications for clinical practice and policy. Problematising medical assumptions of objectivity around pain assessment, diagnosis and treatment that compound the experience of pain, this accessible book offers a strong critique of current clinical practice." Hannah Bradby, Uppsala University, Sweden"Given that the topic of pain covers such a vast spectrum including culture, religion, politics, science, medicine, and the arts, amongst others, this book does an impressive job of summarising these various, often conflicting, elements, giving the reader an excellent overview of its diverse philosophies. A must-read for those with a genuine interest in learning more about the field of pain."Paul Cameron, University of DundeeTable of Contents Introduction Chapter 1: Historical Perspectives on Pain Chapter 2: Sociological Theory, Concepts and Pain Chapter 3: The Experience of Pain Chapter 4: Care and Care Services for Pain Chapter 5: Structures of Diversity and Pain Chapter 6: Pain as an Contested Experience Chapter 7: Emotional Pain and Suffering Chapter 8: Health Professionals’ Experience of Pain Chapter 9 Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisOnce considered revolutionary, evidence-based medicine (EBM) has failed. The Impossible Clinic explores the conundrum of EBM's attempt to translate evidence from medical research into recommendations for practice. Ironically, when medical institutions combine disciplinary regulations with EBM to produce clinical practice guidelines, the outcomes are antithetical to the aim. Such guidelines fail to increase individual physicians' decision-making capacities as EBM promises because they externalize judgment through disciplinary control. Ariane Hanemaayer uses a critical sociology approach to argue that EBM persists because it has congealed within the dominant liberal political strategy of governance, which seeks to improve health care at a distance, at the least cost, and without investment in infrastructure. As such, The Impossible Clinic is the first book to interrogate the history, practice, and pitfalls of EBM and explain how it persists due to intersecting relatioTrade ReviewThis important book provides a thoughtful analysis of shortcomings, but parts of the text are so rich in medical humanities jargon that they are sometimes hard to follow. -- M. Gochfeld * CHOICE Connect *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Conversations in Medicine: Problematizing Clinical Practice2 Institutional Sites: McMaster University and Canada’s Contribution to Medical Training3 Responsibilizing a New Kind of Clinician: Problem-Based Learning4 Technologies of Regulation: Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Effects of Normalization5 The Impossible Clinic: Biopolitics, Governmentality, LiberalismConclusionNotes; References; Index

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Book SynopsisTaking an unusual approach to the topic of medical teamwork, this book gathers fifty engaging first-person narratives provided by people from various health care professions.Trade ReviewCollaborative Caring includes an examination of interprofessional practice, teamwork, and collaborative practice or collaborative caring. By using narratives and reflections that relate to real events in health care, this book discusses the contemporary concept of working together in teams. This publication is very relevant in the context of current health systems and is effective to stimulate reflection on action as individuals and teams work together toward common goals while at times taking a different approach. -- Susanne Murphy * Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy *

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Book SynopsisThis book shows how medical schools and teaching hospitals can implement the University of Toronto's successful model for interprofessional medical education, providing a step-by-step guide for deans, faculty, administrators, and health care providers.Trade ReviewThe real value of this book is as a highly practical guide for those individuals and organizations who are committed to making interprofessional education a reality... In addition to professional educatorsleaders of health care systems themselves can learn from this book as they work to transform their structures and cultures to support teamwork around patients at the point of care, ideally reinforcing what new hires are learning in well-designed interprofessional education programs rather than starting from scratch. -- Jody Hoffer Gittel * ILR Reivew *Table of Contents Introduction: Why a Toronto Model Workbook? 1. Getting Started 2. Structuring for Success 3. Building the Curriculum 4. Creating a Strong Education–Practice Interface 5. Thinking about Impact and Sustainability from the Start

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Book SynopsisBy putting debates around stem cell research in to conversation with debates about universal healthcare, People's Science challenges readers to move beyond a narrow focus on bioethics to account for the larger social context in which new biotechnologies are coming to market.Trade Review"Some of the most pressing questions for science today start not with 'Can...?', but 'How...?' . . . Ruha Benjamin's excellent book focuses on such questions, taking as a case study of controversial passage of Proposition 71, a state bill that made conducting stem cell research in California a Constitutional right, and which guaranteed funding . . . for stem cell research over a decade."—Neil Singh, British Journal of the History of Science"People's Science is an important work on a complex topic, written with a passion for social justice and inclusion . . . In People's Science, Benjamin offers us an engaging, insightful, and challenging call to examine both the rhetoric and reality of innovation and inclusion in science and science policy. Using a clear and persuasive, moral, and sometimes even prophetic voice, Benjamin calls sociologists of science, technology, and medicine to investigate ever more deeply how scientific innovation works within a deeply unequal society, advantaging the already powerful and ignoring or silencing those who suffer from existing public policy."—Daniel R. Morrison, American Journal of Sociology"Much of the debate over stem cell research is seen in the public eye as part of the ongoing struggles between Left and Right, liberal and conservative. In People's Science, Benjamin problematizes this easy dichotomy, writing persuasively of the complex divides between support versus critique and advancement versus opposition to this branch of scientific research . . . Recommended."—M. D. Lagerwey, CHOICE"An impressive work of seminal scholarship, People's Science is a deftly written inquiry into the social issue implications of how scientific research is conducted in our democratic society including factors of race, disability, gender, and socio-economic class. As informed and informative as it is thoughtful and thought-provoking, People's Science is strongly recommended reading."—Andy Jordan, Midwest Book Review "Telling the story of the social and political lives of stem cells in America, Ruha Benjamin compels you to consider how political expedience and vague promises of a better future too often trump social equity in publicly funded scientific research. This is an immensely important and timely book, impeccably researched and forcefully argued."—Michael Montoya, University of California, Irvine, author of Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality"Ruha Benjamin powerfully contests the autonomy of scientists and argues instead for a radically inclusive public engagement in science. Grounded in the heated battle over stem cell research, People's Science highlights the voices of people with disabilities, African Americans, and women to show why citizens should have the power to influence science as much as scientists influence society. A must read for students and scholars interested in science and society, as well as advocates for more democratic participation in cutting-edge biotechnologies."—Dorothy Roberts, University of Pennsylvania, author of Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century"In this fascinating account of an experiment both political and scientific, Ruha Benjamin takes us behind the scenes of California's massive, voter-driven investment in stem cell research. People's Science examines the tread marks where the rubber meets the road: Whose interests are served, whose bodies provide the raw research materials, and which groups reap the benefits? This is a must-read contribution to our understanding of health disparities, 'biological citizenship,' and the politics of knowledge-making."—Steven Epstein, Northwestern University, author of Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research"As we move full steam into an era of citizen-driven science, Ruha Benjamin's wonderful examination of stem-cell initiatives is a welcome reminder that politics and social justice don't necessarily enjoy a good prognosis even when scientific priorities are motivated by democratic processes. Science of the people, by the people and for the people does not always mean all the people."—Dalton Conley, New York University

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Book SynopsisFocusing on low-income neighborhoods in Delhi, this book stitches together three different sets of issues. It examines the different trajectories of illness: What are the circumstances under which illness is absorbed within the normal and when does it exceed the normal putting resources, relationships, and even one's world into jeopardy?Trade Review"Told with delicacy, vigour and a sharply criticial eye, this compelling account of the everyday events of illness in low income neighborhoods [in Delhi] shows what anthropological attentiveness can do. If its power comes from the evident power of the mind behind it, it also comes from a modestly understated account of how to be both in the company of people and a recorder of affliction. Above all, it is a work of exquisite attention to the incoherences and normalizations that disease makes of family circumstances, medical practices, state provisioning, singular lives, and that these make of it. Socially sensitive and world-alert at the same time, Das's narrative holds the reader in (gripping, edifying) suspense between its different planes. No less perhaps than one would expect from this author, but a model of social science writing all the same." -- -Marilyn Strathern University of Cambridge "Reading Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty is like observing a master at work. [This is a] formidable piece of scholarship immersed in more than a decade of ethnographic engagement etched in stunningly crafted anthropological prose. This longitudinal immersion in the everyday lives of urban poor produces a tender and intimate account without lapsing into unwitting sentimentality. An ethnographic and theoretical tour de force!" -- -Aditya Bharadwaj The Graduate Institute, Geneva Veena Das offers a complex ethnographic meditation on illness among the urban poor and the diverse kinds of response (practical, methodological, ethical) it invites. As Das so precisely attends to affliction, readers have the privilege of following one of anthropology's most distinctive and distinguished voices." -- -Michael Lambek University of Toronto "...a compelling read that should be of interest to scholars working in medical anthropology, psychological anthropology, and the anthropology of South Asia" -- Leslie Jo Weaver -Anthropology Quarterly "Veena Das' book, 'Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty' provides an important, ethnographically powerful, laddering of scenes of instructions for us all." -- Michael M.J. Fischer -Somatosphere "Over four decades Veena Das has established herself as one of the most imaginative and sensitive writers to be found in any of the human sciences. In this brilliant book, she attends to the everyday work of care and endurance that makes up the life of the poor in Delhi. As ever, her ear is attuned to the fateful turn of phrase, the pause, the silence. But in this new volume she attends to other voices as well-[not only] the voices of health professionals and economists, struggling to put their understanding of the objective conditions that shape the experience of health and poverty to practical use but also the voices of fellow anthropologists wrestling with the limitations of their theoretical and descriptive language. Affliction is a work of great generosity and no little beauty. It is, if anything even more remarkable than its predecessors in Das's remarkable oeuvre." -- -Jonathan Spencer University of Edinburgh "This is a must read for scholars and researchers who work on matters related to health and illness and for those in the academy who see their research as being inherently applied and interdisciplinary in nature." -SCTIW Review "In this beautiful volume, Veena Das continues her quest into the minor events and enduring suffering, the mundane intensity of the present and remembrance of things past that constitute ordinary human existence, thus opening a novel line of reflection and research in what can be called an anthropology of life." -- -Didier Fassin author of Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the PresentTable of ContentsPreface 1. Affliction: An Introduction 2. How the Body Speaks 3. A Child Learns Illness and Learns Death 4. Mental Illness, Psychiatric Institutions, and the Singularity of Lives 5. Dangerous Liaisons: Technology, Kinship, and Wild Spirits 6. The Reluctant Healer and the Darkness of our Times 7. Medicines, Markets, and Healing 8. Global Health Discourse and the View from Planet Earth 9. Epilogue Note Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis incisive brief guide critically examines the role of medical diagnoses in social life, shining light on both health and disease. Annemarie Goldstein Jutel shows that diagnosis is not simply the labelling of natural disease, but rather is an agreement about what counts as sickness, with far-reaching social consequences.

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Book SynopsisThe author explores the role of social and economic injustices as root causes of the uneven distribution of disease across population groups according to class, race and gender.Table of ContentsIntroduction xi Acknowledgments xix The Editor xxiii The Contributors xxv Part I Human Rights, Social Justice, Economics, Poverty, and Health Care 1. Universal Declaration of Human Rights 5 2. Public Health as Social Justice 11Dan E. Beauchamp 3. What We Mean by Social Determinants of Health 21Vicente Navarro 4. The Magic Mountain: Trickle-Down Economics in a Philippine Garbage Dump 39Matthew Power 5. Family Medicine Should Encourage the Development of Luxury Practices: Negative Position 55Martin Donohoe Part Two Special Populations 6. Homelessness in the United States: History, Epidemiology, Health Issues, Women, and Public Policy 77Martin Donohoe 7. Historical and Contemporary Factors Contributing to the Plight of Migrant Farmworkers in the United States 85Safina Koreishi, Martin Donohoe 8. The Persistence of American Indian Health Disparities 99David S. Jones 9. Prejudice and the Medical Profession: A Five-Year Update 123Peter A. Clark 10. Sexual and Gender Minority Health: What We Know and What Needs to Be Done 153Kenneth H. Mayer, Judith B. Bradford, Harvey J. Makadon, Ron Stall, Hilary Goldhammer, Stewart Landers 11. Mental Disorders, Health Inequalities, and Ethics: A Global Perspective 171Emmanuel M. Ngui, Lincoln Khasakhala, David Nndetei, Laura Weiss Roberts 12. Incarceration Nation: Health and Welfare in the Prison System in the United States 193Martin Donohoe Part Three Women’s Health 13. Individual and Societal Forms of Violence Against Women in the United States and the Developing World: An Overview 217Martin Donohoe 14. Obstacles to Abortion in the United States 233Martin Donohoe 15. The Way It Was 249Eleanor Cooney Part Four Obesity, Tobacco, and Suicide by Firearms: The Modern Epidemics 16. Weighty Matters: Public Health Aspects of the Obesity Epidemic 265Martin Donohoe 17. Cigarettes: The Other Weapons of Mass Destruction 287Martin Donohoe 18. Guns and Suicide in the United States 295Matthew Miller, David Hemenway Part Five Food: Safety, Security, and Disease 19. Factory Farms as Primary Polluter 303Martin Donohoe 20. Genetically Modified Foods: Health and Environmental Risks and the Corporate Agribusiness Agenda 307Martin Donohoe 21. Opposition to the Use of Hormone Growth Promoters in Beef and Dairy Cattle Production (American Public Health Association Policy Statement, Adopted 2009) 319Elanor Starmer, David Wallinga, Rick North, Martin Donohoe Part Six Environmental Health 22. Roles and Responsibilities of Health Care Professionals in Combating Environmental Degradation and Social Injustice: Education and Activism 333Martin Donohoe 23. Global Warming: A Public Health Crisis Demanding Immediate Action 355Martin Donohoe 24. Flowers, Diamonds, and Gold: The Destructive Public Health, Human Rights, and Environmental Consequences of Symbols of Love 365Martin Donohoe 25. Is a Modest Health Care System Possible? 385Andrew Jameton Part Seven War and Violence 26. The Health Consequences of the Diversion of Resources to War and Preparation for War 399Victor W. Sidel, Barry S. Levy 27. A Brief Summary of the Medical Impacts of Hiroshima 405Robert Vergun, Martin Donohoe, Catherine Thomasson, Pamela Vergun 28. Medical Science Under Dictatorship 409Leo Alexander 29. War, Rape, and Genocide: Never Again? 427Martin Donohoe Part Eight Corporations and Public Health 30. Combating Corporate Control: Protecting Education, Media, Legislation, and Health Care 439Martin Donohoe 31. The Pharmaceutical Industry: Friend or Foe? 451Jennifer R. Niebyl 32. Unnecessary Testing in Obstetrics, Gynecology, and General Medicine: Causes and Consequences of the Unwarranted Use of Costly and Unscientific (yet Profitable) Screening Modalities 463Martin Donohoe 33. Urine Trouble: Practical, Legal, and Ethical Issues Surrounding Mandated Drug Testing of Physicians 473Martin Donohoe Part Nine Achieving Social Justice in Health Care Through Education and Activism 34. Promoting Public Understanding of Population Health 493Stephen Bezruchka 35. Some Ideas for a Common Agenda 509Peter Montague, Carolyn Raffensperger 36. Taking On Corporate Power—and Winning 521Robert Weissman 37. US Health Care: Single-Payer or Market Reform 551David U. Himmelstein, Steffie Woolhandler 38. US Health Professionals Oppose War 563Walter J. Lear 39. The Residency Program in Social Medicine of Montefiore Medical Center: 37 Years of Mission-Driven, Interdisciplinary Training in Primary Care, Population Health, and Social Medicine 571A. H. Strelnick, Debbie Swiderski, Alice Fornari, Victoria Gorski, Eliana Korin, Philip Ozuah, Janet M. Townsend, Peter A. Selwyn 40. Stories and Society: Using Literature to Teach Medical Students About Public Health and Social Justice 597Martin Donohoe Index 609

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Book SynopsisA Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health presents a collection of readings that utilize a medical anthropological approach to explore the interface of humans and the environment in the shaping of health and illness around the world.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Introduction 1 Merrill Singer Part I Theories, Methods, and Anthropological Perspectives on Key Issues in Environment and Health 19 1 Ecosocial and Environmental Justice Perspectives on Breast Cancer: Responding to Capitalism’s Ill Effects 21 Mary K. Anglin 2 Effects of Agriculture on Environmental and Human Health: Opportunities for Anthropology 44 Melissa K. Melby and Megan Mauger 3 Toward “One Health” Promotion 68 Melanie Rock and Chris Degeling Part II Ecobiosocial Interactions and Health 83 4 Conceptualizing Ecobiosocial Interactions: Lessons from Obesity 85 Stanley Ulijaszek, Amy McLennan, and Hannah Graff 5 Environmental Racism and Community Health 101 Melissa Checker 6 Medicine, Alternative Medicine, and Political Ecologies of the Body 121 Joseph S. Alter 7 Asthma and Air Pollution: Connecting the Dots 142 Helen Kopnina 8 Washing Away Ebola: Environmental Stress, Rumor, and Ethnomedical Response in a Deadly Epidemic 157 Ivo Ngade, Merrill Singer, Olivia Marcus, and José E. Hasemann Lara 9 Paradise Poisoned: Nature, Environmental Risk, and the Practice of Lyme Disease Prevention in the United States 173 Abigail Dumes 10 Ecobiopolitics and the Making of Native American Reservation Health Inequities 193 Merrill Singer and G. Derrick Hodge Part III The Political Ecology of Health 217 11 Water, Environment, and Health: The Political Ecology of Water 219 Linda M. Whiteford, Maryann Cairns, Rebecca Zarger, and Gina Larsen 12 Remembering the Foundations of Health: Everyday Water Insecurity and Its Hidden Costs in Northwest Alaska 236 Laura Eichelberger 13 Food Security: Health and Environmental Concerns in the North 257 Kirsten Hastrup, Anne Marie Rieffestahl, and Anja Olsen 14 New Toxics Uncertainty and the Complexity Politics of Emerging Vapor Intrusion Risk 281 Peter C. Little 15 The Political Ecology of Cause and Blame: Environmental Health Inequities in the Context of Colonialism, Globalization, and Climate Change 302 Eleanor S. Stephenson and Peter H. Stephenson 16 Political Ecology of a Drug Crop: The Intricate Effects of Khat 325 Lisa L. Gezon 17 Reestablishing the Fundamental Bases for Environmental Health: Infrastructure and the Social Topographies of Surviving Seismic Disaster 348 Stephanie C. Kane Part IV Adverse Feedback Loops in Environmental Health 373 18 Modifying Our Microbial Environment: From the Advent of Agriculture to the Age of Antibiotic Resistance 375 Kristin N. Harper, Gabriela M. Sheets, and George J. Armelagos 19 China’s Cancer Villages: Contested Evidence and the Politics of Pollution 396 Anna Lora‐Wainwright and Ajiang Chen 20 Mining and Its Health Consequences: From Matewan to Fracking 417 Elizabeth Cartwright Part V Pluralea Interactions and Ecosyndemics in a Changing World 435 21 Pluralea Interactions and the Remaking of the Environment in Environmental Health 437 Merrill Singer 22 Private Cars as Environmental Health Hazards: The Critical Need for Public Transit in the Era of Climate Change 458 Hans A. Baer 23 Health and the Anthropocene: Mounting Concern about Tick‐borne Disease Interactions 483 Nicola Bulled and Merrill Singer Index 000

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Book SynopsisThis book examines children and young people's attempts to participate in conversations about their own treatment throughout uncertain cancer trajectories, including the events leading up to diagnosis, treatment, remission, relapse, and cure or death. Clearly and compellingly written, Clementerelieson a new multi-layered methodto identify six cancer communication strategies Illustrates that communication is central to how children, parents, and healthcare professionals constitute, influence, and make sense of the social worlds they inhabitor that they want to inhabit Provides ethnographic case studies of childhood cancer patients in Spain, using children''s own words Examines the challenges of how to talk to and how to encourage patients'' involvement in reatment discussions In his critique of the telling versus not telling debates, Clemente argues that communication should be adjusted to the children's own needs, and that children''sTrade Review"...opens up broader margins of reflection about how medical diagnoses, and in general medical communication, are delivered and negotiated and provides the reader with extensive references with which the theoretical discussion is constantly confronted and challenged...Clemente is surely paving the way toward a more fertile and effective collaboration between medical and linguistic anthropology..." - Letizia Bonanno, AAA Book Forum, 2016Table of ContentsSeries Preface ix Acknowledgments xii Preface xiv 1. Children: Contributions to Communication and Illness 1 Alternatives to Speaking 5 Disclosure as a Dynamic and Heterogeneous Process 7 Disclosure to Children with Cancer 10 Problematizing Participation 13 Uncertainty and the Practice of Optimism 21 Multiple Uncertainties 21 Hierarchically Organized Uncertainties 23 Variable Uncertainties 23 Practicing Hope and Optimism 25 Ethnography and Conversation Analysis 26 Plan of the Book 31 2. A Linguistic Anthropologist in a Pediatric Cancer Unit 33 Culture and Disclosure Practices in Catalonia 34 Fieldwork with Children 38 Contexts of Children’s Questions 42 Investigating Avoidance 44 Multiple Ways of Talking about Cancer 47 3. Living and Dealing with Cancer 49 Focusing on Treatment 51 Guessing 55 Estar baixet (Having Low Blood Cell Counts) 56 Les llagues (Mouth Sores) 57 La febre (Fever and Infections) 58 Being Together 60 Acompanyar (Being at the Patient’s Side) 61 Menjar (Eating) 63 Fer una visita (Visiting) 64 Talking Privately 67 Uncertainties of Treatment 71 4. Co]constructing Uncertainty 74 Questions and Answers 76 Uncertainty and the Topic of Questions 79 Contingent Answers 80 Contingent Questions 86 Uncertainty and the Action of Questions 88 Answers that Lead to Subsequent Actions 90 Avoiding Answers and Avoiding Silence 93 Stepping into the Uncertain Future One Turn at a Time 100 5. Engaging in Communication at Catalonia Hospital 102 Learning the Diagnosis 103 L’entrevista (The Treatment Interview) 109 “And When Will I Be Completely Cured?” 111 Six Communication Strategies 127 6. Patient Pressure and Medical Authority 129 Everyday Life in Treatment 130 “How Many Chemos Do I Have Left?” 133 Seeking Answers Without Challenging Medical Authority 151 7. The Limits of Optimism at the End of Treatment 153 Remission 154 Relapse 159 Negotiating Death 161 “Is the Day of the Autotransplant Going to Be Delayed?” 168 Optimistic Collusion 178 8. Conclusion 180 Appendix A: Profiles of Patients 189 Children (ages 3-6) 189 Young people (ages 11-18) 190 Appendix B: Transcription Conventions 193 References 197 Index 214

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking exploration of the sociology of dementia with contributions from distinguished international scholars and practitioners. Organised around the four themes of personhood, care, social representations and social differentiation,Table of ContentsNotes on contributors vii 1 Ageing, dementia and the social mind: past, present and future perspectives 1Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard 2 Relational citizenship: supporting embodied selfhood and relationality in dementia care 7Pia Kontos, Karen-Lee Miller and Alexis P. Kontos 3 Shifting dementia discourses from deficit to active citizenship 24Linda Birt, Fiona Poland, Emese Csipke and Georgina Charlesworth 4 Narrative collisions, sociocultural pressures and dementia: the relational basis of personhood reconsidered 37Edward Tolhurst, Bernhard Weicht and Paul Kingston 5 Power, empowerment, and person-centred care: using ethnography to examine the everyday practice of unregistered dementia care staff 52Kezia Scales, Simon Bailey, Joanne Middleton and Justine Schneider 6 Institutionalising senile dementia in 19th-century Britain 69Emily Stella Andrews 7 Dichotomising dementia: is there another way? 83Patricia Mc Parland, Fiona Kelly and Anthea Innes 8 When walking becomes wandering: representing the fear of the fourth age 95Katherine Brittain, Cathrine Degnen, Grant Gibson, Claire Dickinson and Louise Robinson 9 Re-imagining dementia in the fourth age: the ironic fictions of Alice Munro 110Marlene Goldman 10 Social class, dementia and the fourth age 128Ian Rees Jones 11 Precarity in late life: rethinking dementia as a ‘frailed’ old age 142Amanda Grenier, Liz Lloyd and Chris Phillipson Index 155

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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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Book Synopsis1. Political Biology and the Politics of Epistemology 2. Nineteenth Century: From Heredity to Hard-Heredity 3. Into the Wild: The Radical Ethos of Eugenics 4. A Political Quadrant 5. Time for a Repositioning: Political Biology after 1945 6. Four Pillars of Democratic Biology 7. Welcome to Postgenomics: Reactive Genomes, Epigenetics and the Rebirth of Soft-Heredity 8. Conclusions: The Quandary of Political Biology in the Twenty-First CenturyTrade Review“A fascinating social and political history of human heredity spanning over 150 years from Darwin to the present moment. … it is certainly essential reading for students of history and politics of science, I would urge anyone who feels overwhelmed by the pervasiveness of modern biology and its medical imprint, and who wish to make sense of it, to at least give it a cursory read.” (Rakesh Kalshian, Down To Earth, downtoearth.org.in, July, 2017)“The book offers not only an updated and complex synthesis of existing historiography on the whole range of topics it deals with, but also presents the reader with a future-oriented narrative framework that by its very argumentative structuring invites critical reflection on the synthesis it presents, as well as on the implications and consequences issuing from the present day entwinement of biology and politics. I recommend the book very highly … .” (Snait B. Gissis, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Vol. 62, April, 2017)“Political Biology is a dense and useful addition to the voluminous literature on the history of the biological theories of heredity and their sociopolitical consequences.” (Michel Dubois, European Journal of Sociology, Vol. 58 (3), 2017)“With Political Biology Maurizio Meloni has pulled together a strikingly wide range of scholarly sources from the history of the human sciences and heredity … . There is a great deal that historians of science will enjoy and admire about Meloni’s work, particularly the breadth of reading and commitment to delivering the value of historical research to contemporary social and policy predicaments … . Political Biology is engaging, clear and an excellent inclusion in HPS and STS syllabi.” (Dominic J. Berry, British Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 50 (1), 2017)Table of Contents1. Political Biology and the Politics of Epistemology 2. Nineteenth Century: From Heredity to Hard-Heredity 3. Into the Wild: The Radical Ethos of Eugenics 4. A Political Quadrant 5. Time for a Repositioning: Political Biology after 1945 6. Four Pillars of Democratic Biology 7. Welcome to Postgenomics: Reactive Genomes, Epigenetics and the Rebirth of Soft-Heredity 8. Conclusions: The Quandary of Political Biology in the Twenty-First Century

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Book SynopsisA Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment offers original essays that examine historical and contemporary approaches to conceptualizations of the body.Trade Review“Overall, this is a rich and valuable resource which offers great insight into bodies, and anthropological research on bodies, today.” (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 29 April 2014) “This wonderful companion to embodiment and body-studies covers twenty nine different aspects from our daily embodied lives.” (The Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, 1 May 2012)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors x Synopses xvii Introduction 1Frances E. Mascia-Lees 1. AESTHETICS 3 Aesthetic Embodiment and Commodity CapitalismFrances E. Mascia-Lees 2. AFFECT 24 Learning Affect/Embodying RaceAna Yolanda Ramos-Zayas 3. AUTOETHNOGRAPHY 46 When I Was A Girl (Notes on Contrivance)Roger N. Lancaster 4. BIOETHICS 72 Embodied Ethics: From the Body as Specimen and Spectacle to the Body as PatientNora L. Jones 5. BIOPOWER 86Biopower and Cyberpower in Online NewsDominic Boyer 6. BODILINESS 102 The Body Beyond the Body: Social, Material and Spiritual Dimensions of BodilinessTerence Turner 7. COLONIALISM 119 Bodies under ColonialismJanice Boddy 8. CULTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY 137 Embodiment: Agency, Sexual Difference, and IllnessThomas Csordas 9. DEAD BODIES 157 The Deadly Display of Mexican Border PoliticsRocío Magaña 10. DISSECTION 172 The Body in Tatters: Dismemberment, Dissection, and the Return of the RepressedNancy Scheper-Hughes 11. (TRANS)GENDER 207 Tomboi EmbodimentEvelyn Blackwood 12. GENOMICS 223 Embodying Molecular GenomicsMargaret Lock 13. HAPTICS 239 Haptic Creativity and the Mid-embodiments of Experimental LifeNatasha Myers and Joe Dumit 14. HYBRIDITY 262 Hybrid Bodies of the Scientific ImaginaryLesley Sharp 15. IMPAIRMENT 276 Sporting Bodies: Sensuous, Lived, and ImpairedP. David Howe 16. KINSHIP 292 Bodily Betrayal: Love and Anger in the Time of EpigeneticsEmily Yates-Doerr 17. MASCULINITIES 307 The Male Reproductive BodyEmily Wentzell and Marcia C. Inhorn 18. MEDIATED BODIES 320 Fetal Bodies, UndoneLynn M. Morgan 19. MODIFICATION 338 Blurring the Divide: Human and Animal Body ModificationsMargo DeMello 20. NEOLIBERALISM 353 Embodying and Affecting NeoliberalismCarla Freeman 21. PAIN 370 Pain and BodiesJean E. Jackson 22. PERSONHOOD 388 Embodiment and PersonhoodAndrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart 23. POST-SOCIALISM 403 Troubling the Reproduction of the NationMichele Rivkin-Fish 24. RACIALIZATION 419 How To Do Races With BodiesDidier Fassin 25. THE SENSES 435 PolysensorialityDavid Howes 26. SENSORIAL MEMORY 451 Embodied Legacies of GenocideCarol A. Kidron 27. TASTING FOOD 467 Tasting between the Laboratory and the ClinicAnnemarie Mol 28. TRANSNATIONALISM 481 Bodies-in-Motion: Experiences of Momentum in Transnational SurgeryEmily McDonald 29. VIRTUALITY 504 Placing the Virtual Body: Avatar, Chora, CyphergTom Boellstorff Index 521

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Book SynopsisDrawing on the latest international sociological research, this monograph takes a critical look at contemporary developments, discourses, and debate on pharmaceuticals and society. Key issues covered include pharmaceuticals and medicalization and the science and politics of drug development, testing, and regulation Investigates the constructions of pharmaceuticals in professional and popular culture and the meaning and use of medications in everyday life Investigates pharmaceuticals, consumerism, and citizenship and the impact of innovation and expectations regarding pharmaceutical futures Written in a lively, accessible style, with many engaging and important insights from key international figures in the field Trade Review?Well researched and easily digestible, this book is recommended for anyone wishing to gain further understanding of the interplay between pharmaceuticals and society.? (Pharmaceutical Journal , November 2009)Table of Contents1. The sociology of pharmaceuticals: progress and prospects: Simon J. Williams, Jonathan Gabe and Peter Davis. 2. From Lydia Pinkham to Queen Levitra: direct-to-consumer advertising and medicalisation: Peter Conrad and Valerie Leiter. 3. Waking up to sleepiness: Modafinil, the media and the pharmaceuticalisation of everyday/night life: Simon J. Williams, Clive Seale, Sharon Boden, Pam Lowe and Deborah Lynn Steinberg. 4. Pharma in the bedroom . . . and the kitchen. . . . The pharmaceuticalisation of daily life: Nick J. Fox and Katie J. Ward. 5. Sociology of pharmaceuticals development and regulation: a realist empirical research programme: John Abraham. 6. Sex, drugs, and politics: the HPV vaccine for cervical cancer: Monica J. Casper and Laura M. Carpenter. 7. New forms of citizenship and socio-political inclusion: accessing antiretroviral therapy in a Rio de Janeiro favela: Fabian Cataldo. 8. Over-the-counter medicines: professional expertise and consumer discourses: Fiona A. Stevenson, Miranda Leontowitsch and Catherine Duggan. 9. In whose interest? Relationships between health consumer groups and the pharmaceutical industry in the UK: Kathryn Jones. 10. The great ambivalence: factors likely to affect service user and public acceptability of the pharmacogenomics of antidepressant medication: Michael Barr and Diana Rose. 11. Shifting paradigms? Reflections on regenerative medicine, embryonic stem cells and pharmaceuticals: Steven P. Wainwright, Mike Michael and Clare Williams. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis bookarticulates a clear four-phase process for planning, creating, implementing, and evaluating multilevel community health promotion interventions using a framework focusing on determinants from the individual, physical, and social environments. It breaks down each phaseinto detailed yet easy-to-follow steps that review important procedures, like identifying a behaviorally based problem within a community, choosing the underlying behavioral determinants to be targeted by the intervention, selecting intervention components and strategies, and evaluating outcomes to improve and further disseminate the intervention. Guidelines for engaging community members in the entire process, building teams, developing a manual of procedures, conducting pilot studies, and the importance of formative and process evaluation are reviewed as well. Also presented are instructions for adapting interventions for new communities. Feature boxes highlight key Trade ReviewDr. Lytle’s extensive experience in designing, developing, and evaluating multilevel behavioral interventions is the foundation for this important and timely book for researchers and practitioners. She has been the lead on many successful interventions involving youth and adults, concerning multiple health problems and associated behaviors, and this has resulted in a framework based on science and achievement. Her clarity reflects this wealth of knowledge, and she gifts us with clear and cogent steps to making our communities healthier places. -- Cheryl L. Perry, PhD, Professor Emerita, Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; School of Public Health, Austin Campus, Austin, TX, United StatesLeslie Lytle has written a practical guide for how to plan theoretically sound, creative, and effective policies and interventions to promote healthy behaviors. Concrete examples take the reader through the various steps of the process. The book is systematic and engaging—highly recommended! -- Knut-Inge Klepp, PhD, Executive Director, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, NorwayThis is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and practitioners. The step-wise process for creating, implementing, and evaluating multilevel interventions is clearly described and easy to follow. Dr. Lytle’s decades long experience with designing and evaluating multilevel interventions is made evident through her practical guidance and applied intervention examples. -- Jess Haines, PhD, MHSc, RD, Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction to Designing Interventions to Promote Community Health: A Multilevel and Stepwise ApproachChapter 1. A Multilevel Framework for Intervention Design: Overview of the Phases and StepsChapter 2. A Practical Guide to Using Health Behavior Theories to Design Multilevel InterventionsChapter 3. The Plan PhaseChapter 4. The Create PhaseChapter 5. The Implement PhaseChapter 6. The Evaluate PhaseChapter 7. Using the Intervention Design Process to Guide the Adaptation of an InterventionReferencesIndexAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisA study of the existing and future research on the intersections between law and materiality, leading to the illumination of both. A theoretically innovative book exploring the intersections between law and materiality Offers new perspectives on a variety of high profile controversial subjects, including climate change, public health, genetics, crime, biomedical technology Investigates the futures of both the sociology of law and the study of science and technology from a novel, interdisciplinary vantage point Illustrates a wide range of empirical topics to provide a focus for critical reflection on the nature of cross-disciplinary research Illuminates relationships between transnational regulation and local practices and the relation between social agency and material worlds Table of ContentsIntroduction: Material Worlds: Intersections of Law, Science, Technology, and Society (Alex Faulkner, Bettina Lange and Christopher Lawless) 1. The Pragmatic Sanction of Materials: Notes for an Ethnography of Legal Substances (Javier Lezaun) 2. The Regulation of Nicotine in the United Kingdom: How Nicotine Gum Came to Be a Medicine, but Not a Drug (Catriona Rooke, Emilie Cloatre and Robert Dingwall) 3. The Donor-conceived Child's ‘Right to Personal Identity’: The Public Debate on Donor Anonymity in the United Kingdom (Ilke Turkmendag) 4. A Socio-legal Analysis of an Actor-world: The Case of Carbon Trading and the Clean Development Mechanism (Emilie Cloatre and Nick Wright) 5. Nanotechnology and the Products of Inherited Regulation (Elen Stokes) 6. The Emergence of Biobanks in the Legal Landscape: Towards a New Model of Governance (Emmanuelle Rial-Sebbag and Anne Cambon-Thomsen) 7. The Legal Landscape for Advanced Therapies: Material and Institutional Implementation of European Union Rules in France and the United Kingdom (Aurélie Mahalatchimy, Emmanuelle Rial-Sebbag, Virginie Tournay and Alex Faulkner) 8. Bodies of Science and Law: Forensic DNA Profiling, Biological Bodies, and Biopower (Victor Toom) 9. The Materiality of What? (Alain Pottage)

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Book SynopsisBased on ethnographic research conducted over a year, this book tells the story of twelve people, each living with illness. Focusing on everyday life, it explores ideas of care, vulnerability and choice. Juxtaposing text with illustrations, the book highlights the intimacies of visual sociology and demonstrates the value of sensuous scholarship.Trade Review"Vital Bodies reminds us that we all face the struggle of how to be at home in our skin. But like all homes our bodies are weathered by time and fall into disrepair. More than any narrowly practical exploration of health and illness this elegant book documents how people struggle with life and limb to find peace, stability and shelter in the world through their bodies. A remarkable book of gentle but brilliant insights into the nature of life itself." Les Back, Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths"A beautifully judged book privileging the voices and expertise of people with chronic illnesses. Bates uses her participants’ experiences as a way into a diverse body of scholarship, through which she urges us to think more critically about what is at stake when people are disabled by the demands of contemporary urban life." Anna Ruddock, editor of Making Visible: Chronic Illness and the Academy"Astute, attentive, and illuminating, this study sheds much-needed light on people's diverse illness experiences. Bates sensitively attends to the everyday experiences of illness, which, she rightly claims, harbour the unfolding and continuously changing meaning of illness for the ill person.." Havi Carel, University of BristolRecommended for General Readers by CHOICE ConnectTable of ContentsIntroduction Eat Exercise Sleep Genes and organs Feet and legs Hands and hearts Conclusion Appendix: Sensuous scholarship

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Book SynopsisBased on ethnographic research conducted over a year, this book tells the story of twelve people, each living with illness. Focusing on everyday life, it explores ideas of care, vulnerability and choice. Juxtaposing text with illustrations, the book highlights the intimacies of visual sociology and demonstrates the value of sensuous scholarship.Trade ReviewRecommended for General Readers by CHOICE Connect"Vital Bodies reminds us that we all face the struggle of how to be at home in our skin. But like all homes our bodies are weathered by time and fall into disrepair. More than any narrowly practical exploration of health and illness this elegant book documents how people struggle with life and limb to find peace, stability and shelter in the world through their bodies. A remarkable book of gentle but brilliant insights into the nature of life itself." Les Back, Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths"A beautifully judged book privileging the voices and expertise of people with chronic illnesses. Bates uses her participants’ experiences as a way into a diverse body of scholarship, through which she urges us to think more critically about what is at stake when people are disabled by the demands of contemporary urban life." Anna Ruddock, editor of Making Visible: Chronic Illness and the Academy"Astute, attentive, and illuminating, this study sheds much-needed light on people's diverse illness experiences. Bates sensitively attends to the everyday experiences of illness, which, she rightly claims, harbour the unfolding and continuously changing meaning of illness for the ill person.." Havi Carel, University of BristolTable of ContentsIntroduction Eat Exercise Sleep Genes and organs Feet and legs Hands and hearts Conclusion Appendix: Sensuous scholarship

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Book SynopsisThis original collection analyses the global experience of health care support workers (HSWs) and examines their interface with the health professions, regulatory practice risks, employment challenges and the dilemmas of an ageing population. Crucial future policy recommendations are also made for a world becoming increasingly dependent on HSWs.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Support Workers and the Health Professions ~ Mike Saks Health Professionals, Support Workers and the Precariat ~ Mike Saks and Katherine Zagrodney Unpaid Informal Carers: The ‘Shadow’ Workforce in Health Care ~ A. Paul Williams and Janet M. Lum The Management and Leadership of Support Workers ~ Mike Dent Regulation, Risk and Health Support Work ~ Mike Saks and Judith Allsop The Interface of Health Support Workers with the Allied Health Professions ~ Susan Nancarrow Support Workers in Social Care: Between Social Work Professionals and Service Users ~ Andreas Liljegren, Anna Dunér and Elisabeth Olin Health Professionals and Peer Support Workers in Mental Health Settings ~ Aukje Leemeijer and Mirko Noordegraaf Complementary and Alternative Medicine as an Invisible Health Support Workforce ~ Joana Almeida and Nelson Barros Personal Support Workers and the Labour Market ~ Audrey Laporte, Adrian Rohit Dass, Whitney Berta, Raisa Deber and Katherine Zagrodney The Role of Health Support Workers in the Ageing Crisis ~ Miwako Hosoda

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Book SynopsisEstablishing a critical and interdisciplinary dialogue, this text engages with the typically disparate fields of social gerontology and disability studies. It investigates the experiences of two groups rarely considered together in research people ageing with long-term disability and people first experiencing disability with ageing.Table of Contents1. Introduction Part 1: The context for disablement in older age 2. Defining disability 3. Literature: ageing, disability and lifecourse 4. Public policies on ageing and disability Part 2: Empirical findings 5. Disabling bodies 6. Disabling or enabling contexts 7. Responding to challenges 8. Comparison: disability with ageing and ageing with disability 9. Conclusion Methodological annexe

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Book SynopsisEstablishing a critical and interdisciplinary dialogue, this text engages with the typically disparate fields of social gerontology and disability studies. It investigates the experiences of two groups rarely considered together in research people ageing with long-term disability and people first experiencing disability with ageing.Table of Contents1. Introduction Part 1: The context for disablement in older age 2. Defining disability 3. Literature: ageing, disability and lifecourse 4. Public policies on ageing and disability Part 2: Empirical findings 5. Disabling bodies 6. Disabling or enabling contexts 7. Responding to challenges 8. Comparison: disability with ageing and ageing with disability 9. Conclusion Methodological annexe

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Book SynopsisExamining high profile case studies of medically caused suffering and death, When Medicine Goes Awry critiques the present functioning of the medical care system and the pharmaceutical industry.Table of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction Section 1: Case Studies Focusing on the Patient Victim of Medical Error 2. Brian Sinclair: Waiting and Waiting Until Dying in the Emergency Room 3. Ashley Smith: The (Mis)Treatment and Death of an Incarcerated and Troubled Youth 4. Vanessa Young and Marit McKenzie: The Potential Harm of Prescribed Drugs 5. Amy Tan: Lyme Disease and the Battle for Legitimacy Section 2: Case Studies Focusing on the Health Care Provider Causing Medical Error 6. Dr. Charles Smith: The Case Against Blaming the Individual Doctor for Medical Error 7. Elizabeth Wettlaufer: The Nurse Who Murdered Her Long-term Care Patients While No One Noticed 8. Norman Barwin: The Story of Dr. Norman Barwin and the Mixed-up Sperm 9. Conclusion

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