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  • A Sociological Perspective on Blood Plasma Donation During the Pandemic

    Convalescent Gifts and Liminality

    by Jae-Mahn Shim, Seung-Hyun Baek ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Shim and Baek examine the evolving existential meanings of gift-making by interviewing donors of convalescent blood plasma during the Covid-19 pandemic.The book reveals what plasma donation means for their efforts to reassemble their lives from being liminal moments to livable experiences, through interviews with convalescent donors in South Korea. It shows it is the very multiplex meanings of ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

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  • The Ethical Imagination

    by Margaret Somerville ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Science and technology force us to ask some of the most challenging and unprecedented ethical questions in the world today. These issues encompass what it means to be human, how we relate to others and our world, and how we find meaning in life. How we can find a shared ethics for an interdependent world? In her 2006 CBC Massey Lectures, ethicist and McGill University professor Margaret Somerville ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China

    Plurality and Synthesis

    by Volker Scheid, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub ...
    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    As a traditional healing art that has established a contemporary global presence, Chinese medicine defies categories and raises many interesting questions. If Chinese medicine is "traditional," why has it not disappeared with the rest of traditional Chinese society? If, as some claim, it is a science, what does that imply about what we call science? What is the secret of Chinese medicine's ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Medicine as Culture

    Illness, Disease and the Body

    by Deborah Lupton ...
    Lupton′s newest edition of Medicine as Culture is more relevant than ever.Trudy Rudge, Professor of Nursing, University of SydneyA welcome update of a text that has become a mainstay of the medical sociologist′s library.Alan Radley, Emeritus Professor of Social Psychology, Loughborough UniversityMedicine as Culture introduces students to a broad range of cross-disciplinary theoretical perspectives ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Making the Cut

    How Cosmetic Surgery is Transforming our Lives

    by Anthony Elliott ...
    From London to New York, Madrid to Melbourne, Singapore to Tehran, the demand for cosmetic surgery is soaring. Botox injections, collagen fillers, breast implants, microdermabrasion, mini face-lifts: extreme reinvention is all the rage. For better or worse, ours is the era of cosmetic surgical culture.In this captivating book, which draws upon research conducted in Europe, America and Australasia, ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Queering Families

    The Postmodern Partnerships of Cisgender Women and Transgender Men

    by Carla A. Pfeffer ...
    Series series Sexuality, Identity, and Society
    Ozzie and Harriet, move over. A new couple is moving into the neighborhood. In the postmodern era, advances in medical technologies allow some individuals categorized female at birth to live in accordance with their gender identities, as men. While a growing body of literature on transgender men's experiences has come to the forefront, relatively little exists to document the experiences of their ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Birth Mothers and Transnational Adoption Practice in South Korea

    Virtual Mothering

    by Hosu Kim ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book illuminates the hidden history of South Korean birth mothers involved in the 60-year-long practice of transnational adoption. The author presents a performance-based ethnography of maternity homes, a television search show, an internet forum, and an oral history collection to develop the concept of virtual mothering, a theoretical framework in which the birth mothers' experiences of ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Meritocracy and Its Discontents

    Anxiety and the National College Entrance Exam in China

    by Zachary M. Howlett ...
    Meritocracy and Its Discontentsinvestigates the wider social, political, religious, and economic dimensions of the Gaokao, China's national college entrance exam, as well as the complications that arise from its existence. Each year, some nine million high school seniors in China take the Gaokao, which determines college admission and provides a direct but difficult route to an urban lifestyle for ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Other-Worldly

    Making Chinese Medicine through Transnational Frames

    by Mei Zhan ...
    Traditional Chinese medicine is often portrayed as an enduring system of therapeutic knowledge that has become globalized in recent decades. In Other-Worldly, Mei Zhan argues that the discourses and practices called “traditional Chinese medicine” are made through, rather than prior to, translocal encounters and entanglements. Zhan spent a decade following practitioners, teachers, and advocates of ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Pedagogies of Woundedness

    Illness, Memoir, and the Ends of the Model Minority

    by James Kyung-Jin Lee ...
    Series series D/C: Dis/color
    The pressures Asian Americans feel to be socially and economically exceptional include an unspoken mandate to always be healthy. Nowhere is this more evident than in the expectation for Asian Americans to enter the field of medicine, principally as providers of care rather than those who require care. Pedagogies of Woundedness explores what happens when those considered model minorities critically ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Buying Beauty

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    Cosmetic surgery in China has grown rapidly in recent years of dramatic social transition. Facing fierce competition in all spheres of daily life, more and more women consider cosmetic surgery as an investment to gain “beauty capital” to increase opportunities for social and career success. Building on rich ethnographic data, this book presents the perspectives of women who have undergone cosmetic ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Transgender in the Post-Yugoslav Space

    Lives, Activisms, Culture

    by Slađana Branković, Slavcho Dimitrov, Agatha Milan Djuric, Martin Gramc, Tea Hadziristic, Čarna Brković, Jovan Ulićević, Jelena Vidić, Lura Limani ...
    Written by an interdisciplinary collective of authors, this powerful book documents the largely unknown histories and politics of trans lives, activisms, and culture across the post-Yugoslav states.The volume sheds light on a diversity of gender embodiments and explores how they have navigated the murky waters of war, capitalism, and transphobia while forging a niche for themselves within the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD