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At the end of life, our comfort lies mainly in relationships. In this book, Daniel Miller, one of the world's leading anthropologists, examines the social worlds of people suffering from terminal or long-term illness.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
The medical and social sciences offer us many ways of understanding the human body and what it can do. From biology and psychology to sociology and philosophy, a range of disciplines supply us with a rich yet challenging picture.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
The medical and social sciences offer us many ways of understanding the human body and what it can do. From biology and psychology to sociology and philosophy, a range of disciplines supply us with a rich yet challenging picture.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
Culture and Health offers an overview of different areas of culture and health, building on foundations of medical anthropology and health behavior theory.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
Women in Swedish Society is a groundbreaking study by two general practitioners, Annika Forssén and Gunilla Carlstedt, who believed that the medical profession and accepted medical science was inadequately responding to the health problems presented by their female patients.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
This book calls into question the complexity of social, political, cultural, and technological aspects of the health care system. It explores how critical social science research can be put into action to improve health care in Canada.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
Seeks to understand the relationship between HIV, medical technologies, and ideas about the body. This book is suitable for those who are engaged in questions of the social and ethical dimensions of biomedicine, biotechnology, and genomics.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
This book provides a concise and engaging introduction to medical anthropology.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
Private Risk and Public Dangers addresses a range of private risks and public dangers. Issues covered vary from the response to HIV and AIDS and ‘foetal alcohol syndrome’ to the nature of accidents.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
Lee F. Monaghan offers a timely, critical and original take on the obesity debate, bringing male bodies into the frame and questioning the claim from public health that millions of people are unhealthy because they are ‘overweight’ or ‘obese’.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
Originally presented as papers in the 1991 British Sociological Association Conference on Health and Society, Locating Health offers... Læs mere