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  • av Kelly Ray Knight
    325,-

    In this ethnography of addicted, pregnant, and poor women living in daily-rent hotels in San Francisco, Kelly Ray Knight examines the myriad struggles these women face, as well as their encounters with social and medical institutions. She asks: what kinds of futures are possible for these women?

  • - Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives, and Where to Draw the Line
    av Sharon R. Kaufman
    378,-

    Sharon R. Kaufman examines the quandary of patients, families and doctors not knowing the point where enough medical treatment becomes too much treatment. A hidden chain of drivers among science, industry, new technology, and insurance spur this quandary, serving to obscure the ability to identify the difference between extraordinary and ordinary medicine.

  • Spar 11%
    - The Work of Care in Mozambique
    av Ramah McKay
    264

    Ramah McKay follows two medical projects in Mozambique through the day-to-day lives of patients and health care providers, showing how transnational medical resources and infrastructures give rise to diverse possibilities for work and care amid constraint.

  • Spar 13%
    - Culture and Politics in an African Research World
    av Cal (Crystal) Biruk
    346

    In Cooking Data Crystal Biruk offers an ethnographic account of research into the demographics of HIV and AIDS in Malawi in which she rethinks how quantitative health data is produced by showing how data production is inevitably entangled with the lives of those who produce it.

  • Spar 17%
    - A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa
    av Julie Livingston
    256,99

    Julie Livingston shows how the global pursuit of economic and resource-driven growth comes at the expense of catastrophic destruction, thereby upending popular notions that economic growth and development is necessary for improving a community's wellbeing.

  • - Lyme Disease, Contested Illness, and Evidence-Based Medicine
    av Abigail A. Dumes
    423,-

    Abigail A. Dumes offers an ethnographic exploration of the Lyme disease controversy to shed light on the relationship between contested illness and evidence-based medicine in the United States.

  • Spar 12%
    av Bharat Jayram Venkat
    313

    Drawing on historical and ethnographic research on tuberculosis in India, Bharat Jayram Venkat explores what it means to be cured and what it means for a cure to be partial, temporary, or selectively effective.

  • av Todd Meyers
    386 - 1 132,-

    Todd Meyers offers an intimate ethnographic portrait of a woman he met during his fieldwork as a way to explore the complexity of the anthropologist's personal relationships with their subjects and how to speak of and to someone who is gone.

  • av Joao Biehl & Vincanne Adams
    416 - 1 212,-

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