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  • Pandemics and Epidemics in Cultural Representation

    Edited by Sathyaraj Venkatesan, Antara Chatterjee, A. David Lewis, Brian Callender ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This edited book analyses how artists, authors, and cultural practitioners have responded to and represented episodes of epidemics/pandemics through history. Covering a broad range of notable epidemics/pandemics (black death, cholera, Influenza, AIDS, Ebola, COVID-19), the chapters examine the cultural representations of epidemics and pandemics in different contexts, periods, languages, media, and ... Read more

    $166.49 CAD

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    So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom's long star turn coming to a close? Does a continued obsession with the term enliven and emancipate, or reflect a deepening nihilism (or both)? On Freedom ... Read more

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  • Identity

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Florian Coulmas ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Identity has become one of the most widely used terms today, appearing in many different contexts. Anything and everything has an identity, and identity crises have become almost equally pervasive. Yet 'identity' is extremely versatile, meaning different things to different people and in different scientific disciplines. To many its meaning seems self-evident, since its various uses share common ... Read more

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  • Epidemic Illusions

    On the Coloniality of Global Public Health

    by Eugene T Richardson ...
    A physician-anthropologist explores how public health practices--from epidemiological modeling to outbreak containment--help perpetuate global inequities.In Epidemic Illusions, Eugene Richardson, a physician and an anthropologist, contends that public health practices--from epidemiological modeling and outbreak containment to Big Data and causal inference--play an essential role in perpetuating a ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Of Woman Born

    Motherhood as Experience and Institution

    by Adrienne Rich ...
    The pathbreaking investigation into motherhood and womanhood from an influential and enduring feminist voice, now for a new generation.In Of Woman Born, originally published in 1976, influential poet and feminist Adrienne Rich examines the patriarchic systems and political institutions that define motherhood. Exploring her own experience—as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother—she finds the ... Read more

    $17.49 CAD

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  • Contagious

    Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative

    by Priscilla Wald ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    How should we understand the fear and fascination elicited by the accounts of communicable disease outbreaks that proliferated, following the emergence of HIV, in scientific publications and the mainstream media? The repetition of particular characters, images, and story lines—of Patients Zero and superspreaders, hot zones and tenacious microbes—produced a formulaic narrative as they circulated ... Read more

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  • Craft and Conscience

    How to Write About Social Issues

    by Kavita Das ...
    The first major book for writers to more effectively engage with complex socio-political issues—a critical first step in creating social changeWriters are witnesses and scribes to society’s conscience but writing about social issues in the twenty-first century requires a new, sharper toolkit. Craft and Conscience helps writers weave together their narrative craft, analytical and research skills, ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

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  • Euthanasia: All That Matters

    by Richard Huxtable ...
    Series series All That Matters
    The Dignitas clinic in Switzerland may be a long way away. But the issues around euthanasia can suddenly become very close to home. To many, it seems remarkable that in a society where freedom of choice is eulogised, thousands of people find that there is one last choice that they are not free to make. But as this book will show, euthanasia is an issue at the intersection of new technology, old ... Read more

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  • Euthanasia

    Which "M" Is It? Mercy or Murder?

    by Zakyah Basri ...
    Please do everything to save his life. It is always heard at any place where care is given, although it is not said in each and every situation. Nowadays, the doctor's decision about his or her patients has become a dilemma. Is it the doctors duty to relieve pain and suffering even by taking the patient's life? Or should she or he respect human life and stand back, waiting for the nature to take ... Read more

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  • Pandemics and the Media

    by Marina Levina ...
    Series Book 12 - Global Crises and the Media
    Offering a comprehensive analysis of mediated representations of global pandemics, this book engages with the construction, management, and classification of difference in the global context of a pandemic, to address what it means – culturally, politically, and economically – to live in an infected, diseased body. Marina Levina argues that mediated representations are essential in translating and ... Read more

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  • Commodifying Bodies

    Edited by Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Loïc Wacquant ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    Increasingly the body is a possession that does not belong to us. It is bought and sold, bartered and stolen, marketed wholesale or in parts. The professions - especially reproductive medicine, transplant surgery, and bioethics but also journalism and other cultural specialists - have been pliant partners in this accelerating commodification of live and dead human organisms. Under the guise of ... Read more

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  • Concerto for the Left Hand

    Disability and the Defamiliar Body

    by Michael Davidson ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    Concerto for the Left Hand is at the cutting edge of the expanding field of disability studies, offering a wide range of essays that investigate the impact of disability across various art forms---including literature, performance, photography, and film. Rather than simply focusing on the ways in which disabled persons are portrayed, Michael Davidson explores how the experience of disability ... Read more

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