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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “antje kampf”
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  • Aging Men, Masculinities and Modern Medicine

    Edited by Antje Kampf, Barbara L. Marshall, Alan Petersen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
    Aging Men, Masculinities and Modern Medicine explores the multiple socio-historical contexts surrounding men’s aging bodies in modern medicine from a global perspective. The first of its kind, it investigates the interrelated aspects of aging, masculinities and biomedicine, allowing for a timely reconsideration of the conceptualisation of aging men within the recent explosion of social science ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

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  • Androphilia: A Manifesto

    Rejecting the Gay Identity, Reclaiming Masculinity

    by Jack Malebranche ...
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  • Foucault, Health and Medicine

    Edited by Robin Bunton, Alan Petersen ...
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  • Dope Girls

    The Birth Of The British Drug Underground

    by Marek Kohn ...
    This is a discussion of the transformation of drug use (especially morphine and cocaine, which was once commonly available in any chemist's shop) into a national menace. It revolves around the death of Billie Carleton, a West End musical actress, in 1918. Its cast of characters includes Brilliant Chang, a Chinese restaurant proprietor and Edgar Manning, a jazz drummer from Jamaica. They were ... Read more

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  • The Meaning of Illness

    by Marc Auge, Claudine Herzlich ...
    First Published in 1988. The Meaning of Illness offers new ways of understanding the nature of disease and explores the idea that health and illness have a special interdependence. Experiences which illness brings to our attention -limitation, vulnerability and dependence - are explored here as inescapable and valuable dimensions to human existence which we ignore at our peril. The contributors ... Read more

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    by Jonathan Dickens ...
    Series series Student Social Work
    Law and ethics are two vital aspects of social work – all social workers need to practise according to the law and their codes of ethics and conduct. However, the relationship between the law and social work values and ethics is not without its tensions and this book takes a problem-based approach to explore the dilemmas and challenges that can arise.The first part of the book sets out frameworks ... Read more

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    A Damaging Delusion

    by Michael Fitzpatrick ...
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    by Dr. Ali S Khan ...
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  • Exposing Men

    The Science and Politics of Male Reproduction

    by Cynthia R. Daniels ...
    Exposing Men examines how ideals of masculinity have long skewed our societal--and scientific--understanding of one of the pillars of male identity: reproductive health. Only with the recent public exposure of men's reproductive troubles has the health of the male body been thrown into question, and along with it deeper masculine ideals. Whereas once men's sexual and reproductive abilities were ... Read more

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    Biographical and Cultural Perspectives on Health and Disease

    by Alan Radley ...
    In recent years the study of illness as experienced by patients has emerged as an approach to understanding sickness. Descriptions of the everyday situations of people with particular diseases, provide a commentary upon the nature of symptoms and upon the relation of the body to society. This approach stresses the biographical and cultural contexts in which illness arises and is borne by ... Read more

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  • Mobility, Sexuality and AIDS

    Edited by Felicity Thomas, Mary Haour-Knipe, Peter Aggleton ...
    Series series Sexuality, Culture and Health
    Over the past two decades, population mobility has intensified and become more diverse, raising important questions concerning the health and well-being of people who are mobile as well as communities of origin and destination.Ongoing concerns have been voiced about possible links between mobility and HIV, with calls being made to contain or control migrant populations, and debate linking HIV with ... Read more

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