Toxic Shock

Sharra L Vostral

• Hardcover | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 6
• A history of Toxic Shock Syndrome In 1978, doctors in Denver, Colorado observed several healthy children who suddenly and mysteriously developed a ser... Lees meer

The Material Gene

Kelly E Happe

• Paperback | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 9
• Winner of the 2014 Diamond Anniversary Book Award Finalist for the 2014 National Communications Association Critical and Cultural Studies Division Boo... Lees meer

Personalized Medicine

Barbara Prainsack

• Hardcover | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 7
• Inside today's data-driven personalized medicine, and the time, effort, and information required from patients to make it a reality Medicine has been ... Lees meer

Missing Bodies

Monica Casper, Lisa Jean Moore

• Paperback | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 2
• We know more about the physical body--how it begins, how it responds to illness, even how it decomposes--than ever before. Yet not all bodies are crea... Lees meer

Personalized Medicine

Barbara Prainsack

• Paperback | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 7
• Inside today's data-driven personalized medicine, and the time, effort, and information required from patients to make it a reality Medicine has been ... Lees meer

Feeling Medicine

Kelly Underman

• Hardcover | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 21
• Honorable Mention, Sociology of the Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the Body and Embodiment Section of the American Sociological ... Lees meer

Are Racists Crazy?

Sander L Gilman, James Thomas

• Hardcover | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 11
• The connection and science behind race, racism, and mental illness In 2012, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Oxford report... Lees meer

Biocitizenship

• Hardcover | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 19
• A groundbreaking exploration of biocitizenship Citizenship has a long, complex relationship with the body. In recent years, developments in biomedicin... Lees meer

Cloning Wild Life

Carrie Friese

• Paperback | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 14
• The natural world is marked by an ever-increasing loss of varied habitats, a growing number of species extinctions, and a full range of new kinds of d... Lees meer

Feeling Medicine

Kelly Underman

• Paperback | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 21
• Honorable Mention, Sociology of the Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the Body and Embodiment Section of the American Sociological ... Lees meer

Mattering

• Paperback | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 1
• Feminists today are re-imagining nature, biology, and matter in feminist thought and critically addressing new developments in biology, physics, neuro... Lees meer

Toxic Shock

Sharra L Vostral

• Paperback | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 6
• A history of Toxic Shock Syndrome In 1978, doctors in Denver, Colorado observed several healthy children who suddenly and mysteriously developed a ser... Lees meer

Heart-Sick

Janet K Shim

• Hardcover | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 15
• Heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States, affects people from all walks of life, yet who lives and who dies from heart disease s... Lees meer

To Fix or to Heal

• Hardcover | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 3
• Do doctors fix patients? Or do they heal them? For all of modern medicine's many successes, discontent with the quality of patient care has combined w... Lees meer

Freezing Fertility

Lucy Van de Wiel

• Paperback | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 22
• Welcomed as liberation and dismissed as exploitation, egg freezing (oocyte cryopreservation) has rapidly become one of the most widely-discussed and i... Lees meer

Managing Diabetes

Jeffrey A Bennett

• Hardcover | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 13
• A critical study of diabetes in the popular imagination Over twenty-nine million people in the United States, more than nine percent of the population... Lees meer

Missing Bodies

Monica Casper, Lisa Jean Moore

• Hardcover | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 2
• We know more about the physical body--how it begins, how it responds to illness, even how it decomposes--than ever before. Yet not all bodies are crea... Lees meer

Eating Drugs

Stefan Ecks

• Hardcover | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 20
• A Hindu monk in Calcutta refuses to take his psychotropic medications. His psychiatrist explains that just as his body needs food, the drugs are nutri... Lees meer

Plucked

Rebecca M Herzig

• Hardcover | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 8
• Uncovers the history of hair removal practices and sheds light on the prolific culture of beauty From the clamshell razors and homemade lye depilatori... Lees meer

Contraceptive Risk

William Green

• Hardcover | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 12
• The story of Depo-Provera joins the national struggle over the drug's FDA approval to the state legal issues raised by its contraceptive and criminal ... Lees meer

Is Breast Best?

Joan B Wolf

• Hardcover | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 4
• Why has breastfeeding re-asserted itself over the last twenty years, and why are the government, the scientific and medical communities, and so many m... Lees meer

Phantom Limb

Cassandra S Crawford

• Paperback | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 16
• Phantom limb pain is one of the most intractable and merciless pains ever known--a pain that haunts appendages that do not physically exist, often per... Lees meer

Contesting Intersex

Georgiann Davis

• Hardcover | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 10
• Winner, 2017 Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, presented by the American Sociological Association Winner, 2016 Donald Light Award for the Appli... Lees meer

Mattering

• Hardcover | Engels | Biopolitics | nr. 1
• Feminists today are re-imagining nature, biology, and matter in feminist thought and critically addressing new developments in biology, physics, neuro... Lees meer