Medicine In The Meantime
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Medicine In The Meantime
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Author : Ramah McKay
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2017-01-12
Medicine In The Meantime written by Ramah McKay 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 2017-01-12 with Social Science categories.
In Mozambique, where more than half of the national health care budget comes from foreign donors, NGOs and global health research projects have facilitated a dramatic expansion of medical services. At once temporary and unfolding over decades, these projects also enact deeply divergent understandings of what care means and who does it. In Medicine in the Meantime, 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. Paying careful attention to the specific postcolonial and postsocialist context of Mozambique, McKay considers how the presence of NGOs and the governing logics of the global health economy have transformed the relations—between and within bodies, medical technologies, friends, kin, and organizations—that care requires and how such transformations pose new challenges for ethnographic analysis and critique.
The Twilight Of Cutting
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Author : Saida Hodzic
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2017
The Twilight Of Cutting written by Saida Hodzic and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Social Science categories.
The last three decades have witnessed a proliferation of nongovernmental organizations engaging in new campaigns to end the practice of female genital cutting across Africa. These campaigns have in turn spurred new institutions, discourses, and political projects, bringing about unexpected social transformations, both intended and unintended. Consequently, cutting is waning across the continent. At the same time, these endings are misrecognized and disavowed by public and scholarly discourses across the political spectrum. What does it mean to say that while cutting is ending, the Western discourse surrounding it is on the rise? And what kind of a feminist anthropology is needed in such a moment? The Twilight of Cutting examines these and other questions from the vantage point of Ghanaian feminist and reproductive health NGOs that have organized campaigns against cutting for over thirty years. The book looks at these NGOs not as solutions but as sites of “problematization.” The purpose of understanding these Ghanaian campaigns, their transnational and regional encounters, and the forms of governmentality they produce is not to charge them with providing answers to the question, how do we end cutting? Instead, it is to account for their work, their historicity, the life worlds and subjectivities they engender, and the modes of reflection, imminent critique, and opposition they set in motion.
Medicine Rationality And Experience
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Author : Byron J. Good
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1994
Medicine Rationality And Experience written by Byron J. Good and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Medical categories.
Biomedicine is often thought to provide a scientific account of the human body and of illness. In this view, non-Western and folk medical systems are regarded as systems of 'belief' and subtly discounted. This is an impoverished perspective for understanding illness and healing across cultures, one that neglects many facets of Western medical practice and obscures its kinship with healing in other traditions. Drawing on his research in several American and Middle Eastern medical settings, in this 1993 book Professor Good develops a critical, anthropological account of medical knowledge and practice. He shows how physicians and healers enter and inhabit distinctive worlds of meaning and experience. He explores how stories or illness narratives are joined with bodily experience in shaping and responding to human suffering and argues that moral and aesthetic considerations are present in routine medical practice as in other forms of healing.
In The Meantime
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Author : Sarah Sharma
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Release Date : 2014-02-07
In The Meantime written by Sarah Sharma and has been published by Duke University Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-07 with Social Science categories.
The world is getting faster. This sentiment is proclaimed so often that it is taken for granted, rarely questioned or examined by those who celebrate the notion of an accelerated culture or by those who decry it. Sarah Sharma engages with that assumption in this sophisticated critical inquiry into the temporalities of everyday life. Sharma conducted ethnographic research among individuals whose jobs or avocations involve a persistent focus on time: taxi drivers, frequent-flyer business travelers, corporate yoga instructors, devotees of the slow-food and slow-living movements. Based on that research, she develops the concept of "power-chronography" to make visible the entangled and uneven politics of temporality. Focusing on how people's different relationships to labor configures their experience of time, she argues that both "speed-up" and "slow-down" often function as a form of biopolitical social control necessary to contemporary global capitalism.
Race In A Bottle
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Author : Jonathan Kahn
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2013
Race In A Bottle written by Jonathan Kahn and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Medical categories.
Approved by the FDA in 2005 as the first drug with a race-specific indication on its label, BiDil was touted as a pathbreaking therapy to treat heart failure in black patients. Kahn reveals that, at the most basic level, BiDil became racial through legal maneuvering and commercial pressure as much as through medical understandings of how the drug worked. He examines the legal and calls for a more reasoned approach to using race in biomedical research and practice.
Naked To The Bone
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Author : Bettyann Kevles
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 1997
Naked To The Bone written by Bettyann Kevles and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Diagnostic imaging categories.
By the late 1960s, the computer and television were linked to produce medical images that were as startling as Roentgen's original X-rays. Computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic reasonance imaging (MRI) made it possible to picture soft tissues invisible to ordinary X-rays. Ultrasound allowed expectant parents to see their unborn children. Positron emission tomography (PET) enabled neuroscientists to map the brain. In this lively history of medical imaging, the first to cover the full scope of the field from X-rays to MRI-assisted surgery, Bettyann Kevles explores the consequences of these developments for medicine and society. Through lucid prose, vivid anecdotes, and more than seventy striking illustrations, she shows how medical imaging has transformed the practice of medicine - from pediatrics to dentistry, neurosurgery to geriatrics, gynecology to oncology. Beyond medicine, Kevles describes how X-rays and the newer technologies have become part of the texture of modern life and culture. They helped undermine Victorian sexual sensibilities, gave courts new forensic tools, provided plots for novels and movies, and offered artists from Picasso to Warhol new ways to depict the human form.
Translations On North Vietnam
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Translations On North Vietnam written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Vietnam (Democratic Republic) categories.
Your Own Perfect Medicine
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Author : Martha Christy
language : en
Publisher: Delivery Minds
Release Date : 2019-12-18
Your Own Perfect Medicine written by Martha Christy and has been published by Delivery Minds this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-18 with Health & Fitness categories.
It's the most astounding proven natural cure that medical science has ever discovered - yet none of the incredible research findings on this incomparable natural medicine I've ever been revealed to the public! Now, for the first time ever, learn to use this simple method and read about the startling and amazing medical cures that prestigious researchers and doctors themselves have witnessed in clinical use of this inexpensive, incredibly effective, yet virtually unknown natural medicine.
Before Pharmaceuticals
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Author : Lac Fudeman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-10
Before Pharmaceuticals written by Lac Fudeman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10 with Medical categories.
How might Chinese medicine help a person struggling with anxiety, depression, or post-traumatic stress syndrome? Can ancient practices from East Asia help 21st century Westerners heal from emotional problems more effectively than treatment with psychiatric drugs? Before Pharmaceuticals explores these questions and encourages the reader to consider alternative approaches as a balancing complement to psychotherapy.
The Development Of Modern Medicine
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Author : Richard Harrison Shryock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
The Development Of Modern Medicine written by Richard Harrison Shryock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Medicine categories.