João Biehl is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. He is the author of Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment (UC Press) and Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival. His website is www.joaobiehl.net. Byron Good is Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Departments of Social Medicine and Anthropology at Harvard University. He is the author of Medicine, Rationality and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective and co-editor of several volumes, including Culture and Depression (UC Press). Arthur Kleinman is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at Harvard University. He is the author of several books, including Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture; Writing at the Margin: Discourse Between Anthropology and Medicine (both from UC Press); and, most recently, What Really Matters: Living a Moral Life amidst Uncertainty and Danger. Among his coedited volumes are Social Suffering (UC Press) and Global Pharmaceuticals.
28 Ebooks bởi Arthur Kleinman
Byron J. Good & Arthur Kleinman: Subjectivity
This innovative volume is an extended intellectual conversation about the ways personal lives are being undone and remade today. Examining the ethnography of the modern subject, this preeminent group …
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Yunxiang Yan & Jing Jun: Deep China
Deep China investigates the emotional and moral lives of the Chinese people as they adjust to the challenges of modernity. Sharing a medical anthropology and cultural psychiatry perspective, Arthur K …
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€28.99
Arthur Kleinman & Jim Kim: Reimagining Global Health
Bringing together the experience, perspective and expertise of Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Arthur Kleinman, Reimagining Global Health provides an original, compelling introduction to the field of …
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€26.99
Arthur Kleinman & Iain Wilkinson: A Passion for Society
What does human suffering mean for society? And how has this meaning changed from the past to the present? In what ways does “the problem of suffering” serve to inspire us to care for othe …
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Jing-Bao Nie: Behind the Silence
Behind the Silence is the first in-depth work in any language to explore the diverse perspectives of mainland Chinese regarding induced abortion and fetal life in the context of the world’s most ambi …
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€49.98
Vikram Patel & William E. Narrow: Somatic Presentations of Mental Disorders
Sometimes described as ‘the nemesis of the primary care physician, ‘ somatoform disorders are frustrating, expensive to treat, and under-investigated. Somatic Presentations of Mental Disorders provid …
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€59.99
Arthur Kleinman & Weiming Tu: Governance of Life in Chinese Moral Experience
The last 30 years in China have witnessed tremendous changes, primarily as a result of the shift in focus by the state from class struggle to economic development. China soon eliminated the threat of …
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€122.27
Nanyan Guo & Arthur Kleinman: Japan’s Wartime Medical Atrocities
This book examines Japan’s wartime medical atrocities and their postwar aftermath from a comparative perspective and inquires into perennial issues of historical memory, science, politics, society an …
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€101.70
Joseph Becker & Arthur Kleinman: Psychosocial Aspects of Depression
Despite general agreement that psychosocial factors play an important role in various facets of the etiology, onset, treatment response and outcome of depressive disorders, the replicability of resea …
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€60.47
Joseph Becker & Arthur Kleinman: Psychosocial Aspects of Depression
Despite general agreement that psychosocial factors play an important role in various facets of the etiology, onset, treatment response and outcome of depressive disorders, the replicability of resea …
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€59.60
Arthur (Harvard University, USA) Kleinman & Weiming (Harvard University, USA) Tu: Governance of Life in Chinese Moral Experience
China has experienced a tremendous turn-around over the past three decades from the ethos of sacrificing life to the emergent appeal for valuing life. This book takes an interdisciplinary look at Chi …
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€70.60
Arthur (Harvard University, USA) Kleinman & Weiming (Harvard University, USA) Tu: Governance of Life in Chinese Moral Experience
China has experienced a tremendous turn-around over the past three decades from the ethos of sacrificing life to the emergent appeal for valuing life. This book takes an interdisciplinary look at Chi …
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€70.25
Nanyan Guo & Arthur Kleinman: Japan”s Wartime Medical Atrocities
Prior to and during the Second World War, the Japanese Army established programs of biological warfare throughout China and elsewhere. In these “factories of death, ” including the now-infamous Unit …
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€69.16
Nanyan Guo & Arthur Kleinman: Japan”s Wartime Medical Atrocities
Prior to and during the Second World War, the Japanese Army established programs of biological warfare throughout China and elsewhere. In these “factories of death, ” including the now-infamous Unit …
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€69.31
Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong & Allan G. Hill: The Culture of Mental Illness and Psychiatric Practice in Africa
In many African countries, mental health issues, including the burden of serious mental illness and trauma, have not been adequately addressed. These essays shed light on the treatment of common and …
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€9.49
Arthur Kleinman & James L. Watson: SARS in China
The SARS epidemic of 2003 was one of the most serious public health crises of our times. The event, which lasted only a few months, is best seen as a warning shot, a wake-up call for public health pr …
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€24.99
Arthur Kleinman: Soul of Care
The moving memoir of a doctor who became a family caregiver and learned why care is so central to all our lives ‘Beautiful and deeply moving. A truly extraordinary work that will change how we think …
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William C. Olsen & Carolyn Sargent: African Medical Pluralism
In most places on the African continent, multiple health care options exist and patients draw on a therapeutic continuum that ranges from traditional medicine and religious healing to the latest in b …
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€9.49
Alex Cohen & Arthur Kleinman: World Mental Health Casebook
In the past dozen years, the field of international mental health has been transformed from a sub-discipline that attracted only a handful of anthropologists, psychiatrists, and psychologists, into a …
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€166.46
Judith H. Sherman: The Empty Bowl
In The Empty Bowl: Poems of the Holocaust and After, Holocaust survivor Judith H. Sherman strives to record trauma through art. Her poems, written largely in the words of a fifteen-year-old survivor, …
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Arthur Kleinman: Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture
From the Preface, by Arthur Kleinman: Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture presents a theoretical framework for studying the relationship between medicine, psychiatry, and culture. That fra …
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€48.99
Byron J. Good & Arthur Kleinman: Culture and Depression
Some of the most innovative and provocative work on the emotions and illness is occurring in cross-cultural research on depression. Culture and Depression presents the work of anthropologists, psychi …
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€49.99
Arthur Kleinman & Margaret M. Lock: Remaking a World
Remaking a World completes a triptych of volumes on social suffering, violence, and recovery. Social Suffering, the first volume, deals with sources and major forms of social adversity, with an empha …
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€48.99
Veena Das & Michael Jackson: Ground Between
The guiding inspiration of this book is the attraction and distance that mark the relation between anthropology and philosophy. This theme is explored through encounters between individual anthropolo …
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€38.06
Arthur Kleinman & Andrew Lakoff: Global Pharmaceuticals
In some parts of the world spending on pharmaceuticals is astronomical. In others people do not have access to basic or life-saving drugs. Individuals struggle to afford medications; whole population …
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€37.20
Lenore Manderson & Carolyn Smith-Morris: Chronic Conditions, Fluid States
Chronic Conditions, Fluid States explores the uneven impact of chronic illness and disability on individuals, families, and communities in diverse local and global settings. To date, much of the soci …
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€57.82