CT Suite

Barry F Saunders

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• In CT Suite the doctor and anthropologist Barry F. Saunders provides an ethnographic account of how a particular diagnostic technology, the computed t... Lees meer

Feeding Anorexia

Helen Gremillion

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• Feeding Anorexia challenges prevailing assumptions regarding the notorious difficulty of curing anorexia nervosa. Through a vivid chronicle of treatme... Lees meer

In the Place of Origins

Rosalind C Morris

• Hardcover | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• In the Place of Origins tells the tale of modernity in Northern Thailand, discerning its oblique signs in the performances of contemporary spirit medi... Lees meer

Clothing and Difference

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• This volume examines the dynamic relationship between the body, clothing, and identity in sub-Saharan Africa and raises questions that have previously... Lees meer

Clothing and Difference

• Hardcover | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• This volume examines the dynamic relationship between the body, clothing, and identity in sub-Saharan Africa and raises questions that have previously... Lees meer

Bodies of Work

Edward Slavishak

• Hardcover | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• By the end of the nineteenth century, Pittsburgh emerged as a major manufacturing center in the United States. Its rise as a leading producer of steel... Lees meer

In the Place of Origins

Rosalind C Morris

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• In the Place of Origins tells the tale of modernity in Northern Thailand, discerning its oblique signs in the performances of contemporary spirit medi... Lees meer

Minority Rules

Louisa Schein

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• Minority Rules is an ethnography of a Chinese people known as the Miao, a group long consigned to the remote highlands and considered backward by othe... Lees meer

CT Suite

Barry F Saunders

• Hardcover | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• In CT Suite the doctor and anthropologist Barry F. Saunders provides an ethnographic account of how a particular diagnostic technology, the computed t... Lees meer

A Colonial Lexicon

Nancy Rose Hunt

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• A Colonial Lexicon is the first historical investigation of how childbirth became medicalized in Africa. Rejecting the "colonial encounter" paradigm p... Lees meer

The Republic of Therapy

Vinh-Kim Nguyen

• Hardcover | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• The Republic of Therapy tells the story of the global response to the HIV epidemic from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people... Lees meer

Appetites

Judith Farquhar

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• Judith Farquhar's innovative study of medicine and popular culture in modern China reveals the thoroughly political and historical character of pleasu... Lees meer

The Afterlife of Images

Ari Larissa Heinrich

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• In 1739 China's emperor authorized the publication of a medical text that included images of children with smallpox to aid in the diagnosis and treatm... Lees meer

Feeding Anorexia

Helen Gremillion

• Hardcover | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• Feeding Anorexia challenges prevailing assumptions regarding the notorious difficulty of curing anorexia nervosa. Through a vivid chronicle of treatme... Lees meer

National Past-Times

Ann Anagnost

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• In National Past-Times , Ann Anagnost explores the fashioning and refashioning of modern Chinese subjectivity as it relates to the literal and figurat... Lees meer

Differences in Medicine

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• Western medicine--especially in contrast with non-Western traditions of medical practice--is widely thought of as a coherent and unified field in whic... Lees meer

Beyond the Body Proper

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• Over the past several decades, scholars in both the social sciences and humanities have moved beyond the idea that there is a "body proper" a singular... Lees meer

Reproducing Jews

Susan Martha Kahn

• Hardcover | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• There are more fertility clinics per capita in Israel than in any other country in the world and Israel has the world's highest per capita rate of in-... Lees meer

The Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World

Brad Weiss

• Hardcover | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• At the center of this subtle ethnographic account of the Haya communities of Northwest Tanzania is the idea of a lived world as both the product and t... Lees meer

Fluent Bodies

Jean M Langford

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• Fluent Bodies examines the modernization of the indigenous healing practice, Ayurveda, in India. Combining contemporary ethnography with a study of ke... Lees meer

Beyond the Body Proper

• Hardcover | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• Over the past several decades, scholars in both the social sciences and humanities have moved beyond the idea that there is a "body proper" a singular... Lees meer

Appetites

Judith Farquhar

• Hardcover | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• Judith Farquhar's innovative study of medicine and popular culture in modern China reveals the thoroughly political and historical character of pleasu... Lees meer

National Past-Times

Ann Anagnost

• Hardcover | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• In National Past-Times , Ann Anagnost explores the fashioning and refashioning of modern Chinese subjectivity as it relates to the literal and figurat... Lees meer

Bodies of Work

Edward Slavishak

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• By the end of the nineteenth century, Pittsburgh emerged as a major manufacturing center in the United States. Its rise as a leading producer of steel... Lees meer