Medicine: general issues
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Medicine: general issues
Paperback. "An excellent volume, which will be useful to both professional philosophers and students."-Ethics Num Pages: 431 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBZ; JPVH; L; MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 229 x 30. Weight in Grams: 696.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 431
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2nd Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780823215638
- ISBN
- 9780823215638
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 47.61
€ 52.99
€ 47.61
Paperback. Editor(s): Jones, David K.; Pacheco, Julianna; Grogan, Colleen M. Num Pages: 170 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: MBQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 170
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Special Edition
- SKU
- V9780822368762
- ISBN
- 9780822368762
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.41
€ 18.99
€ 18.41
Hardback. This gripping book narrates the efforts to identify a strange disease that killed thirty-eight people in a Venezuelan rainforest between 2007 and 2008 and sketches out systematic health inequities regarding the rights to produce and circulate knowledge about health throughout indigenous communities. Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography. Num Pages: 344 pages, 52 illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC; MBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 613.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822361053
- ISBN
- 9780822361053
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.36
€ 123.36
Hardback. This volume examines the power that can be imposed, and the misery that is caused, especially for the poor, by the simple act of waiting. Although set in Buenos Aires, Auyero describes a variety of different situations, including waiting for national identity cards, for welfare agencies, and the endless waiting for relocation from the slums. Num Pages: 216 pages, 17 photographs, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; JFC; JFFH; JPQB; MBP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5487 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822352594
- ISBN
- 9780822352594
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.24
€ 115.24
Paperback. Considers how a culture of crisis management - what the author calls "the new chronic" - has come to dominate various aspects of contemporary life, from biomedicine to economics to politics. This title unravels the logic of the new chronic where people find themselves suspended in a space between life and death. Num Pages: 240 pages, 11 illustrations, 4 charts. BIC Classification: JHBZ; MBP; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822352280
- ISBN
- 9780822352280
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 28.22
€ 30.99
€ 28.22
Hardback. An ethnography of post-Soviet Cuba s health-care sector which reveals Cuba to be a pragmatic and contradictory state. Series: Experimental Futures. Num Pages: 288 pages, 29 illustrations, 3 tables, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFC; JHMP; MBNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 495.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822351948
- ISBN
- 9780822351948
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.81
€ 117.81
Hardback. In Bodies in Formation, anthropologist Rachel Prentice enters surgical suites increasingly packed with new medical technologies to explore how surgeons are made in the early twenty-first century. Series: Experimental Futures. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: JHM; MBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 161 x 24. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780822351436
- ISBN
- 9780822351436
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.96
€ 123.96
Hardback. As part of the agreement for Greece to join the EU, the country had to undertake a massive psychiatric reform, moving patients out of custodial hospitals and returning them to the community to be treated as outpatients. In this subtle ethnography, Elizabeth Davis shows how this played out at the edge of the nation, in the border region of Thrace. Num Pages: 344 pages, 5 photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DVG; JHMP; JKS; MBNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822350934
- ISBN
- 9780822350934
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.03
€ 124.03
Hardback. The story of the global response to the HIV epidemic, told from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people living with HIV in West Africa between 1994 and 2000. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFD; JFFH2; MBNH; MBS; PSXM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780822348627
- ISBN
- 9780822348627
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Condition: New
€ 117.00
€ 117.00
Hardback. Traces immunity's migration from politics and law into the domains of medicine and science. Offering a genealogy of the concept, this book illuminates a complex of thinking about modern bodies which percolates through European political, legal, philosophical, economic, governmental, scientific, and medical discourses. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: MB; MJCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822345183
- ISBN
- 9780822345183
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.51
€ 131.51
Paperback. An exploration of the symbolic role that the illicit drug user fulfills for the neoliberal state and of counterpublic health measures that do not cast health as antithetical to pleasure. Num Pages: 280 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFH1; JFSK; MBS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822345015
- ISBN
- 9780822345015
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.12
€ 31.99
€ 29.12
Paperback. Weighs in on consumer-driven health care (CDHC). This book contends that supporters of CDHC rely on oversimplified ideas about health care, health care systems, economics, and human nature. It challenges the historical and theoretical assumptions on which the consumer-driven health care movement is based. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; MBP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822341246
- ISBN
- 9780822341246
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.31
€ 31.99
€ 29.31
Paperback. An investigation of the creation and circulation of Western medical discourses linking ideas about disease to Chinese identity, beginning in the eighteenth century. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 248 pages, 42 illustrations, incl. 8 in color. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822341130
- ISBN
- 9780822341130
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 28.22
€ 30.99
€ 28.22
paperback. First systematic medical history of Bolivia for the 20th century, viewing political change from the perspective of public health. Num Pages: 264 pages, 12 b&w photos, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JFC; JFSJ; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780822339168
- ISBN
- 9780822339168
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.16
€ 31.99
€ 29.16
paperback. Combines the histories of empire, leisure, tourism, culture, and medicine to explain how therapeutic spas for colonists facilitated French imperialism between 1830 and 1962. Num Pages: 288 pages, 24 photos, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBTB; MBX; MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 234 x 21. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822338222
- ISBN
- 9780822338222
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.31
€ 31.99
€ 29.31
Paperback. A collection of essays on medicine and media from newspapers through film, television, and computers Editor(s): Friedman, Lester D. Num Pages: 472 pages, 82 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 237 x 30. Weight in Grams: 682.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822332947
- ISBN
- 9780822332947
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.51
€ 36.99
€ 33.51
Paperback. If Chinese medicine is "traditional," why has it not disappeared with the rest of traditional Chinese society? What is the secret to Chinese medicine's remarkable adaptability that has allowed it to prosper for more than 2000 years? This title deals with these questions. Series: Science & Cultural Theory. Num Pages: 432 pages, 43 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; MB; MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 150 x 28. Weight in Grams: 642.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822328728
- ISBN
- 9780822328728
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.49
€ 36.99
€ 33.49
Paperback. Presents a comprehensive collection of writings, including essays from the 1980s and 1990s that present an argument about the AIDS epidemic. The author addresses a range of issues, from biomedical discourse and theories of pathogenesis to the mainstream media's depictions of the crisis in both developed and developing countries. Num Pages: 496 pages, 83 b&w images. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM; MBNS; MJCJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 38. Weight in Grams: 807.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822323181
- ISBN
- 9780822323181
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.51
€ 36.99
€ 33.51
Paperback. Focuses on the life, practices, and accumulated knowledge of the late A L Tommie Bass, a widely-known and admired Appalachian herbalist. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: MBX; MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 27. Weight in Grams: 581.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780822320173
- ISBN
- 9780822320173
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.33
€ 34.99
€ 31.33
Hardback. Series: Perspectives on Global Health. Num Pages: 350 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFG; MBGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780821421727
- ISBN
- 9780821421727
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.12
€ 94.12
Paperback. In South Africa, rabies has been on the rise since the latter part of the twentieth century despite the availability of postexposure vaccines and regular inoculation campaigns for dogs. This book links the increase of rabies to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Editor(s): Brown, Karen. Series: Ecology & History. Num Pages: 228 pages, maps. BIC Classification: MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780821419533
- ISBN
- 9780821419533
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.67
€ 38.99
€ 35.67
Hardback. 'A Second Voice' traces the origins and growth of the profession in a pivotal Midwestern state. It recounts the Ohio Osteopathic Association's early legal battles, the establishment of osteopathic hospitals, the campaign to build a state college of osteopathic medicine, and it profiles the professions leaders. Num Pages: 224 pages, 110 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNH; MBX; MXH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 458. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821415931
- ISBN
- 9780821415931
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.24
€ 59.24
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JH; MBDC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780816635597
- ISBN
- 9780816635597
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.13
€ 29.99
€ 27.13
Paperback. Series: Theory out of bounds. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JH; MBNS; MJCJ2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 141 x 11. Weight in Grams: 225.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780816632800
- ISBN
- 9780816632800
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.13
€ 29.99
€ 27.13