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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “eivind engebretsen”
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  • Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics

    Scientific vs Narrative Rationality and Medical Knowledge Practices

    by Eivind Engebretsen, Mona Baker ...
    The COVID-19 crisis has transformed the highly specialized issue of what constitutes reliable medical evidence into a topic of public concern and debate. This book interrogates the assumption that evidence means the same thing to different constituencies and in different contexts. Rather than treating various practices of knowledge as rational or irrational in purely scientific terms, it explains ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Sustainable Sexual Health

    Analysing the Implementation of the SDGs

    by Tony Sandset, Eivind Engebretsen, Kristin Heggen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Public Health
    This book provides a textual analysis of the implementation of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in health care.Using sexual health as a case study, the authors apply Foucault’s notions of biopower and biopolitics to discuss the power struggle between local needs and wants and universal ambitions embedded in the SDG ideology. Reproductive and sexual health are settings where health ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • The Sociology of Translation and the Politics of Sustainability

    Explorations Across Cultures and Natures

    Edited by John Ødemark, Åmund Norum Resløkken, Ida Lillehagen, Eivind Engebretsen ...
    This book uses sustainability to explore the interfaces between translation studies, the cultural history of knowledge, and Science and Technology studies (STS).The volume examines various material, cultural and epistemic translation practices where sustainability serves as a boundary object between natural and cultural inquiry. By turning to the intellectual traditions that influenced but were ... Read more

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  • Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics

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    The Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, Second Edition, Four Volume Set addresses both the physiological and the psychological aspects of human behavior. Carefully crafted, well written, and thoroughly indexed, the encyclopedia helps users - whether they are students just beginning formal study of the broad field or specialists in a branch of psychology - understand the field and how and why humans ... Read more

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  • The Imperative of Health

    Public Health and the Regulated Body

    by Deborah Lupton ...
    In this reappraisal of public health and health promotion in contemporary societies, Deborah Lupton explores public health and health promotion using contemporary sociocultural and political theory, particularly that building on Foucault′s writings on subjectivity, embodiment and power relations. The author examines the implications of the new social theories for the study of health promotion and ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to the Sociology of Ignorance

    Essays on the Limits of Knowing

    Edited by Linsey McGoey ...
    Ignorance is typically thought of as the absence or opposite of knowledge. In global societies that equate knowledge with power, ignorance is seen as a liability that can and should be overcome through increased education and access to information. In recent years, scholars from the social sciences, natural sciences and humanities have challenged this assumption, and have explored the ways in ... Read more

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  • Material Girls

    Why Reality Matters for Feminism

    by Kathleen Stock ...
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    $8.99 CAD

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  • Sociology

    by BarCharts,Inc ...
    This study guide contains fundamental sociological definitions and principles which are specifically designed to aid students. Topics covered include: social structure & culture, formal organizations, socialization & deviance, basic concepts of demography, population changes, social inequality & stratification, social classes, race, gender & inequality, economy, politics & education, family, ... Read more

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    by Rosi Braidotti ...
    The Posthuman offers both an introduction and major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman. Digital 'second life', genetically modified food, advanced prosthetics, robotics and reproductive technologies are familiar facets of our globally linked and technologically mediated societies. This has blurred the traditional distinction between the human and its others, exposing the non ... Read more

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    When Ideology Meets Reality

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  • Educational Leadership for the 21St Century

    Building a Capacity for Change

    by Peter J. Zsebik ...
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