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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

€ 115.91

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

€ 115.33

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
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.87

Paperback. A case study of the development and reception of genomics in the Netherlands. Num Pages: 264 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMP; MFN; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822345343
ISBN
9780822345343
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

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

€ 122.90

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

Paperback. Traditional Chinese medicine is often portrayed as an enduring system of therapeutic knowledge that has become globalized in recent decades. This title argues that the discourses and practices called 'traditional Chinese medicine' are made through, rather than prior to, translocal encounters and entanglements. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822343844
ISBN
9780822343844
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.31

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.31

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

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

Paperback. A history and theorization of the representation of public health concerns in commercial cinema and educational film Num Pages: 288 pages, 98 b&w photos. BIC Classification: APFA; MJCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822336488
ISBN
9780822336488
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.53

Paperback. Argues that the rise in psychiatric drug treatments was not a radical turn away from psychoanalysis, but instead carries on Freudian assumptions, especially in relation to gender. Num Pages: 296 pages, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822335245
ISBN
9780822335245
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.48

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

€ 34.99
€ 31.70

Paperback. Presents an examination of how the migration of nurses from the Philippines to the US is inextricably linked to American imperialism and the US colonization of the Philippine Islands in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1KBB; JHBL; MQC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822330899
ISBN
9780822330899
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

Paperback. An ethnography of Ayurvedic medicine which argues the ills it cures are largely effects of postcolonial identity. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 328 pages, 16 illus., 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JHMP; MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822329480
ISBN
9780822329480
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.51

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.93

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

€ 34.99
€ 31.70

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.
Format
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

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

paperback. Series: Console-ing Passions. Num Pages: 328 pages, 22 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; JPWD; MJCJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 636.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822316954
ISBN
9780822316954
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.51

Paperback. Editor(s): Kirkland, James K.; Matthews, Holly F.; Sullivan, Charles W.; Baldwin, Karen. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; MMG; VXH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5944 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 395.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822312178
ISBN
9780822312178
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.21

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