Encounters With Biomedicine
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Encounters With Biomedicine
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Author : Hans A. Baer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Encounters With Biomedicine written by Hans A. Baer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with categories.
Encounters With Biomedicine
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Author : Hans A. Baer
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 1987
Encounters With Biomedicine written by Hans A. Baer and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Anthropology categories.
Multiplicity Ingenuity And Creativity
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Author : Franziska Annemarie Herbst
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Multiplicity Ingenuity And Creativity written by Franziska Annemarie Herbst and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
Biomedicine And Alternative Healing Systems In America
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Author : Hans A. Baer
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 2001
Biomedicine And Alternative Healing Systems In America written by Hans A. Baer and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Alternative medicine categories.
Examining medical pluralism in the United States from the Revolutionary War period through the end of the twentieth century, Hans Baer brings together in one convenient reference a vast array of information on healing systems as diverse as Christian Science, osteopathy, acupuncture, Santeria, southern Appalachian herbalism, evangelical faith healing, and Navajo healing. In a country where the dominant paradigm of biomedicine (medical schools, research hospitals, clinics staffed by M.D.s and R.N.s) has been long established and supported by laws and regulations, the continuing appeal of other medical systems and subsystems bears careful consideration. Distinctions of class, Baer emphasizes, as well as differences in race, ethnicity, and gender, are fundamental to the diversity of beliefs, techniques, and social organizations represented in the phenomenon of medical pluralism. Baer traces the simultaneous emergence in the nineteenth century of formalized biomedicine and of homeopathy, botanic medicine, hydropathy, Christian Science, osteopathy, and chiropractic. He examines present-day osteopathic medicine as a system parallel to biomedicine with an emphasis on primary care; chiropractic, naturopathy, and acupuncture as professionalized heterodox medical systems; homeopathy, herbalism, bodywork, and lay midwifery in the context of the holistic health movement; Anglo-American religious healing; and folk medical systems, particularly among racial and ethnic minorities. In closing he focuses on the persistence of folk medical systems among working-class Americans and considers the growing interest of biomedical physicians, pharmaceutical and healthcare corporations, and government in the holistic health movement
Biomedicine And Eu Law
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Author : Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Biomedicine And Eu Law written by Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.
Biomedicine In An Unstable Place
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Author : Alice Street
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2014-10-24
Biomedicine In An Unstable Place written by Alice Street and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-24 with Social Science categories.
Biomedicine in an Unstable Place is the story of people's struggle to make biomedicine work in a public hospital in Papua New Guinea. It is a story encompassing the history of hospital infrastructures as sites of colonial and postcolonial governance, the simultaneous production of Papua New Guinea as a site of global medical research and public health, and people's encounters with urban institutions and biomedical technologies. In Papua New Guinea, a century of state building has weakened already inadequate colonial infrastructures, and people experience the hospital as a space of institutional, medical, and ontological instability. In the hospital's clinics, biomedical practitioners struggle amid severe resource shortages to make the diseased body visible and knowable to the clinical gaze. That struggle is entangled with attempts by doctors, nurses, and patients to make themselves visible to external others—to kin, clinical experts, global scientists, politicians, and international development workers—as socially recognizable and valuable persons. Here hospital infrastructures emerge as relational technologies that are fundamentally fragile but also offer crucial opportunities for making people visible and knowable in new, unpredictable, and powerful ways.
Handbook Of Popular Culture And Biomedicine
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Author : Arno Görgen
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-09-10
Handbook Of Popular Culture And Biomedicine written by Arno Görgen and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-10 with Social Science categories.
This handbook explores the ways biomedicine and pop culture interact while simultaneously introducing the reader with the tools and ideas behind this new field of enquiry. From comic books to health professionals, from the arts to genetics, from sci-fi to medical education, from TV series to ethics, it offers different entry points to an exciting and central aspect of contemporary culture: how and what we learn about (and from) scientific knowledge and its representation in pop culture. Divided into three sections the handbook surveys the basics, the micro-, and the macroaspects of this interaction between specialized knowledge and cultural production: After the introduction of basic concepts of and approaches to the topic from a variety of disciplines, the respective theories and methods are applied in specific case studies. The final section is concerned with larger social and historical trends of the use of biomedical knowledge in popular culture. Presenting over twenty-five original articles from international scholars with different disciplinary backgrounds, this handbook introduces the topic of pop culture and biomedicine to both new and mature researchers alike. The articles, all complete with a rich source of further references, are aimed at being a sincere entry point to researchers and academic educators interested in this somewhat unexplored field of culture and biomedicine.
Mao S Bestiary
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Author : Liz P. Y. Chee
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2021-03-29
Mao S Bestiary written by Liz P. Y. Chee and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-29 with History categories.
Controversy over the medicinal uses of wild animals in China has erupted around the ethics and efficacy of animal-based drugs, the devastating effect of animal farming on wildlife conservation, and the propensity of these practices to foster zoonotic diseases. In Mao's Bestiary, Liz P. Y. Chee traces the history of the use of medicinal animals in modern China. While animal parts and tissue have been used in Chinese medicine for centuries, Chee demonstrates that the early Communist state expanded and systematized their production and use to compensate for drug shortages, generate foreign investment in high-end animal medicines, and facilitate an ideological shift toward legitimating folk medicines. Among other topics, Chee investigates the craze for chicken blood therapy during the Cultural Revolution, the origins of deer antler farming under Mao and bear bile farming under Deng, and the crucial influence of the Soviet Union and North Korea on Chinese zootherapies. In the process, Chee shows Chinese medicine to be a realm of change rather than a timeless tradition, a hopeful conclusion given current efforts to reform its use of animals.
Practicing Biomedicine At The Albert Schweitzer Hospital 1913 1965
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Author : Tizian Zumthurm
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-08-10
Practicing Biomedicine At The Albert Schweitzer Hospital 1913 1965 written by Tizian Zumthurm and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-10 with Medical categories.
Tizian Zumthurm uses the extraordinary hospital of an extraordinary man to produce novel insights into the ordinary practice of biomedicine in colonial Central Africa. His investigation of therapeutic routines in surgery, maternity care, psychiatry, and the treatment of dysentery and leprosy reveals the incoherent nature of biomedicine and not just in Africa. Reading rich archival sources against and along the grain, the author combines concepts that appeal to those interested in the history of medicine and colonialism. Through the microcosm of the hospital, Zumthurm brings to light the social worlds of Gabonese patients as well as European staff. By refusing to easily categorize colonial medical encounters, the book challenges our understanding of biomedicine as solely domineering or interactive.
The Taste For Knowledge
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Author : Sylvie Fainzang
language : en
Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Release Date : 2010-12-15
The Taste For Knowledge written by Sylvie Fainzang and has been published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-15 with Medical categories.
The Taste for Knowledge: Medical Anthropology Facing Medical Realities demonstrates how medical anthropology is becoming increasingly important in the fields of medical research and public health. The authors examine some of the major issues in medical anthropology today. In this volume, a group of international researchers reflect, for example, on: the way anthropology faces and deals with interdisciplinarity in its encounter with medicine and doctors; the new medical realities and patient strategies that exist in changing medical systems; and the interactions between practice, power and science. The book will appeal to clinicians/practitioners, anthropologists in general, and all those engaged in the interface between medicine and anthropology, but will also be a valuable tool for students of medicine and anthropology who have a special interest in the social realities and interdisciplinarity of health and illness.