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  • - Managing Migrant Suffering in France
    af Stephanie Larchanche
    378,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

    A gripping ethnography about Centre Minkowska, a transcultural psychiatry clinic in Paris, France. From her unique position as both observer and staff member, anthropologist Stephanie Larchanche explores the challenges of providing non-stigmatizing mental healthcare to migrants.

  • - Reproduction, Cultural Transformation, and Health Care in Romania
    af Cristina A. Pop
    343,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

  • af Svendsen
    343,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

  • - Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals
    af Vania Smith-Oka
    343,95 - 1.393,95 kr.

  • - Life in the Spirit Mosque of a Healer in Mozambique
    af Daria Trentini
    343,95 - 1.393,95 kr.

  • - Post-Abortion Care and Global Reproductive Health Politics in Senegal
    af Siri Suh
    438,95 - 1.393,95 kr.

  • - Farmworkers, Health and Environmental Justice
    af Dvera I. Saxton
    378,95 - 1.393,95 kr.

    Describes the features and facets of the strawberry industry as a harm industry, and explores author Dvera Saxton's activist ethnographic work with farmworkers in response to health and environmental injustices.

  • - Kidneys, Regimes of Care, and the Mexican State
    af Ciara Kierans
    378,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

    Explores Chronic Kidney Disease and the search for renal care lived out in the context of poverty, inequality and uneven welfare arrangements. Based on ethnographic research conducted in the state of Jalisco, this book documents the routes uninsured Mexican patients take in order to access resource intensive biotechnical treatments.

  • - Gender, HIV, and Global Health in Bolivia
    af Carina Heckert
    413,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

    The HIV epidemic in Bolivia has received little attention on a global scale in light of the country's low HIV prevalence rate. However, by profiling the largest city in this land-locked Latin American country, Carina Heckert shows how global health-funded HIV care programs at times clash with local realities, which can have catastrophic effects for people living with HIV.

  • - Diabetes and Gender in Modern India
    af Lesley Jo Weaver
    378,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

  • - Immigration Enforcement and Health in the US South
    af Nolan Kline
    378,95 - 963,95 kr.

    The relationship between undocumented immigrants and law enforcement officials continues to be a politically contentious topic in the US. Nolan Kline focuses on the hidden, health-related impacts of immigrant policing to examine the role of policy in shaping health inequality in the US, and responds to fundamental questions regarding biopolitics.

  • - Orphan Care and AIDS in Lesotho
    af Ellen Block & Will McGrath
    378,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

  • af Andrea Whittaker
    378,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

    Traces the development of the "disruptive" surrogacy industry and its movement across Southeast Asia following a sequence of governmental bans in India, Nepal, Thailand, and Cambodia.

  • - Madness and Modernity in Yucatan, Mexico
    af Beatriz M. Reyes-Foster
    378,95 - 963,95 kr.

    Presents an intimate portrait of a public inpatient psychiatric facility in the Southeastern state of Yucatan, Mexico. Psychiatric Encounters considers the large- and small-scale obstacles to quality care encountered by doctors and patients alike as they struggle to live and act like human beings under inhumane conditions.

  • - Cardiometabolic Disorders in Samoa
    af Jessica Hardin
    378,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

    Explores how Pentecostal Christians manage chronic illness in ways that shed light on health disparities and social suffering in Samoa. Examining how Pentecostal Christianity provides tools to manage issues around health and sickness, Jessica Hardin argues for understanding the synergies between how Christianity and biomedicine practice chronicity.

  • - Adoption in the Age of Globalization and Biotechnology
    af Sonja van Wichelen
    378,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

  • - Birthing Injuries and the Quest for Continence in Niger
    af Alison W. Heller
    378,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

  • - Civil Society, HIV and AIDS Care in Northern Mozambique
    af Joel Christian Reed
    1.398,95 kr.

    AIDS activists are often romanticized as extremely noble and selfless. However, the relationships among HIV support group members highlighted in Landscapes of Activism are hardly utopian or ideal. The product of in-depth ethnography and focused anthropological inquiry, this is the first book on AIDS activists in Mozambique.

  • - Civil Society, HIV and AIDS Care in Northern Mozambique
    af Joel Christian Reed
    378,95 kr.

    AIDS activists are often romanticized as extremely noble and selfless. However, the relationships among HIV support group members highlighted in Landscapes of Activism are hardly utopian or ideal. The product of in-depth ethnography and focused anthropological inquiry, this is the first book on AIDS activists in Mozambique.