Society & culture: general
Results 17401 - 17424 of 35149
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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 55.20