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Medicine: general issues
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.
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- 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
€ 33.99€ 30.93
€ 33.99
€ 30.93
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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822332947
- ISBN
- 9780822332947
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.94
€ 34.99
€ 31.94
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
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.51
€ 30.99
€ 27.51
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
€ 30.99€ 27.51
€ 30.99
€ 27.51
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.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822345183
- ISBN
- 9780822345183
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Condition: New
€ 123.40
€ 123.40
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.
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- 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
€ 110.75
€ 110.75
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
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Condition: New
€ 115.81
€ 115.81
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
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Condition: New
€ 115.91
€ 115.91
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
€ 27.99€ 26.40
€ 27.99
€ 26.40
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
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Condition: New
€ 108.56
€ 108.56
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
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Condition: New
€ 115.81
€ 115.81
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
€ 17.99€ 17.54
€ 17.99
€ 17.54
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.
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- 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
€ 47.99€ 43.03
€ 47.99
€ 43.03
Paperback. The essays collected here were presented at the workshop Plasticity and Pathology: History and Theory of Neural Subjects at the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley. Editor(s): Bates, David. Series: Berkeley Forum in the Humanities. Num Pages: 368 pages, 8 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: HP; MB; PSAN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780823266142
- ISBN
- 9780823266142
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.73
€ 32.99
€ 29.73
hardcover. Offers an introduction to the sociology of diagnosis. This title presents articles that explore diagnosis as a process of definition that includes: labeling dynamics between diagnoser and diagnosed; boundary struggles between diverse constituents - both among medical practitioners and between medical authorities and others; and, more. Editor(s): McGann, PJ; Hutson, David; Rothman, Barbara Katz. Series Editor(s): Rothman, Barbara Katz. Series: Advances in Medical Sociology. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations, port. BIC Classification: MBS; MJA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 37. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857245755
- ISBN
- 9780857245755
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Condition: New
€ 163.17
€ 163.17
Hardback. Reviews the advances on a variety of micro and macro health care management topics. Part of the "Advances in Health Care Management" series, this title showcases reviews of both empirical and conceptual research in specific areas of health care management. Editor(s): Savage, Grant; Blair, John; Fottler, Myron D. Series Editor(s): Blair, John; Fottler, Myron D.; Savage, Grant; Friedman, Leonard H. Series: Advances in Health Care Management. Num Pages: 279 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: MBPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 237 x 28. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 279
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857247131
- ISBN
- 9780857247131
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.60
€ 133.60
Hardback. Series: Research in Community & Mental Health S. Num Pages: 386 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JHBC; MBN; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 32. Weight in Grams: 715.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1979
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing Limited United States
- Number of pages
- 386
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780892320639
- ISBN
- 9780892320639
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.11
€ 116.11
Hardback. Series: Research in Community & Mental Health S. Num Pages: 356 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JHBC; MBN; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 697.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1981
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing Limited United States
- Number of pages
- 356
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780892321520
- ISBN
- 9780892321520
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.11
€ 116.11
Paperback. Editor(s): Avgar, Ariel C.; Vogus, Timothy J. Series: LERA Research Volumes. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: MBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780913447123
- ISBN
- 9780913447123
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.15
€ 37.99
€ 34.15
Hardback. A comprehensive guidebook to the current methodologies and practices used in health surveys A unique and self-contained resource, Handbook of Health Survey Methods presents techniques necessary for confronting challenges that are specific to health survey research. Editor(s): Johnson, Timothy P. Series: Wiley Handbooks in Survey Methodology. Num Pages: 840 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: GPS; MBNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 164 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1274.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 840
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118002322
- ISBN
- 9781118002322
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 173.97
€ 173.97