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Society & culture: general

Paperback. The male body in the study of gender, health, and medicalization largely has been ignored. This book presents research into the definition and regulation of masculinity by medicine. The introduction traces sociological work on medicalisation, masculinities, and the body. Editor(s): Rosenfeld, Dana; Faircloth, Christopher A. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBK; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 336 x 252 x 22. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Annotated
SKU
V9781592130986
ISBN
9781592130986
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 31.02

Paperback. Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference. Series: Experimental Futures. 280 pages, 5 illustrations. Proposes that medical treatment should be seen as a site of, rather than an alternative to, political and social contestation. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFSL3; JHM; MBDC; MJD. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 17. Weight: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822353447
ISBN
9780822353447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 27.67

Paperback. Num Pages: 544 pages, 343 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBJK; JFSL9; VXHT; WNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 694.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc. United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486259512
ISBN
9780486259512
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.11

Paperback. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBB; JFCX; MBX; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2011
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349292677
ISBN
9781349292677
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 149.05

Hardcover. The human body, traded, fragmented and ingested is at the centre of Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture, which explores the connections between early modern literary representations of the eaten body and the medical consumption of corpses. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; JFCX; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230110274
ISBN
9780230110274
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.83

Hardback. Speculative fiction often shows the complicated and rather fraught history of medicine as it relates to black women. Through prominent writers like Octavia Butler, Nnedi Okorafor, and Nalo Hopkinson, Jones highlights how personal experiences of illness and disease frequently reflect larger societal sicknesses in connection to race and gender. Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine. Num Pages: 204 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137520609
ISBN
9781137520609
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.35

Paperback. To find more information on Rowman & Littlefield titles, please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com. Num Pages: 201 pages. BIC Classification: HRJ; JFSR1; LN; MBDC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 162 x 12. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers United States
Number of pages
201
Condition
New
SKU
V9780876685747
ISBN
9780876685747
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.74

Paperback. Offers an insight into the alleged medical differences between whites and blacks that translated as racial inferiority. This work evaluates the diet, hygiene, clothing, and living and working conditions of African Americans, and analyzes the diseases and health conditions that afflicted them in urban areas, at industrial sites, and on plantations. Series: Blacks in the New World. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 465.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780252008740
ISBN
9780252008740
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.10

Paperback. This unique and comprehensive second edition of an important volume presents writing from renowned authors about achieving social justice in medicine. Each of the 42 chapters addresses continuing and emerging policy challenges facing medicine. They deepen our understanding of theoretical and practical aspects of issues in the contemporary debate. Editor(s): Rhodes, Rosamond; Battin, Margaret; Silvers, Anita. Num Pages: 576 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures, graphs. BIC Classification: JFF; MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 179 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1006.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199744206
ISBN
9780199744206
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 198.55

Hardback. This book explores the pressing issues of border control and infectious disease from the nineteenth to present day. The book places world health in world history, microbes and their management in globalization, and disease in the history of international relations, bringing together leading scholars on the history and politics of global health. Editor(s): Bashford, Alison. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; 3JMC; JFFS; JPS; MBNS; MBX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 516.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
287
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230507067
ISBN
9780230507067
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.17

Paperback. This book traces how medicine in modern Iran was both theoretically and institutionally transformed in the 19th and 20th centuries. It explores the process by which local physicians, in a non-colonial context, assimilated the emerging "modern medicine" and the institutional devices that accommodated this transition. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HBL; HBTB; JFC; MBX; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349343805
ISBN
9781349343805
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.05

paperback. Series: Folk wisdom series. Num Pages: 6 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRQ; JFSL9; VXH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Inner Traditions Bear and Company United States
Edition
Original ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781879181373
ISBN
9781879181373
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.83

Paperback. In 'Medicine of the Prophet', Ibn Qayyim presents a concise summary of how the Prophet's guidance and teaching can be followed, as well as how health, sickness and cures were viewed by Muslims in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Translator(s): Johnstone, Penelope. Num Pages: 350 pages, glossaries, index, bibliography. BIC Classification: DNF; HRH; JFSR2; M. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 273 x 168 x 28. Weight in Grams: 698.
Publisher
The Islamic Texts Society
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9780946621224
ISBN
9780946621224
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 22.66

Paperback. Challenging the view that Aboriginal medicine was helpless to deal with European disease, Lux argues that the diseases killing the Plains people were not contagious epidemics but grinding poverty, malnutrition, and overcrowding. Series: Heritage. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12 halftones, 6 graphs, 19 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL9; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802082954
ISBN
9780802082954
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 39.83

Hardback. An exploration of the relations between medical and religious discourse and practice in medieval culture, focussing on how they are affected by gender. Editor(s): Yoshikawa, Naoe Kukita. Series: Gender in the Middle Ages. Num Pages: 310 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRA; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 240 x 26. Weight in Grams: 720.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
310
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843844013
ISBN
9781843844013
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.64

Paperback. BIC Classification: JFSR. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Deutscher Universitatsverlag
Condition
New
SKU
V9783835060456
ISBN
9783835060456
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.48

Paperback / so. Editor(s): Scheffer, Bernd. Num Pages: 293 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: CBWJ; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 427.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
VS Verlag f?r Sozialwissenschaften United Kingdom
Number of pages
293
Condition
New
SKU
V9783810019172
ISBN
9783810019172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.30

Paperback. Editor(s): Jarren, Otfried. Series: Fachwissen Feur Journalisten. Num Pages: 330 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 449.
Publisher
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1994th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9783531125800
ISBN
9783531125800
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.52

Paperback / so. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 13. Weight in Grams: 299.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9783810013828
ISBN
9783810013828
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 77.38

Paperback / so. Editor(s): Sarcinelli, Ulrich; Schatz, Heribert. Series: Schriftenreihe Medienforschung Der Landesanstalt Fur Medien. Num Pages: 558 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 29. Weight in Grams: 808.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
VS Verlag f?r Sozialwissenschaften United Kingdom
Number of pages
558
Condition
New
SKU
V9783810031136
ISBN
9783810031136
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 74.81

Paperback / so. Series: Duv Sozialwissenschaft. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Deutscher Universit?tsverlag United Kingdom
Condition
New
SKU
V9783824440757
ISBN
9783824440757
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.12

Paperback / so. Series: Schriftenreihe Medienforschung Der Landesanstalt Fur Rundfun. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 27. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
VS Verlag f?r Sozialwissenschaften United Kingdom
Condition
New
SKU
V9783810021618
ISBN
9783810021618
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 90.64

Paperback / so. Editor(s): Tietze, Wolfgang. Series: Duv Sozialwissenschaft. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 9. Weight in Grams: 209.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Deutscher Universit?tsverlag United Kingdom
Condition
New
SKU
V9783824440795
ISBN
9783824440795
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 70.98

paperback. BIC Classification: JFC. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Deutscher Universitätsverlag
Condition
New
Edition
2006th Edition
SKU
V9783835060401
ISBN
9783835060401
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.20

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