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This volume examines the ways in which people engage with therapeutic practices, such as life coaching, mindfulness, complementary and alternative medicine, sex and relationship counselling, spiritual healing and self-tracking.
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This book considers how largely accepted ‘legal truths’ about drugs and addiction are made and sustained through practices of lawyering.
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This book explores the realm of negative social phenomena – no-things, no-bodies, non-events and no-where places – that lies behind the mirror of experience.
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What defines the limits of our belief and, ultimately, compassion, when it comes to disease?This book draws upon patients’ experiences and situates them among diverse literatures, from the history and philosophy of medicine to the sociology of health and disease.
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This book expands the art historical perspective on art’s connection to anatomy and medicine, bringing together in one text several case studies from various methodological perspectives.
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This book brings together different approaches that shed light on the phenomenology of the lived body—its normality and abnormality, health and sickness, its activity as well as its passivity.
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This book examines the history and evolution of Ayurveda and indigenous medical traditions in juxtaposition with their... Læs mere
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This book documents the primary role of acute hunger (semi- and frank starvation) in the ‘fulminant’ malaria epidemics that repeatedly afflicted the northwest plains of British India through the first half of colonial rule.
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This book focuses on health, healing and healthcare in Nepal. It presents an intriguing picture: the interplay between the natural processes that cause ill-health or... Læs mere
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This book focuses on ‘the dark side’ of emotional labour, exploring the work that is emotionally disturbing, wearying, deeply upsetting and sometimes damaging to those who undertake it.
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Putting food and theatre into direct conversation, this volume focuses on how food and theatre have operated for centuries as partners in the performative, symbolic,... Læs mere
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This volume on medical tourism includes contributions by anthropologists and historians on a variety of health-seeking modes of travel and leisure. This book was originally published as a special issue of Anthropology & Medicine.