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Biopolitics eBook Series

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  • Managing Diabetes

    The Cultural Politics of Disease

    by Jeffrey A. Bennett ...
    Series Book 13 - Biopolitics
    A critical study of diabetes in the popular imaginationOver twenty-nine million people in the United States, more than nine percent of the population, have some form of diabetes. In Managing Diabetes, Jeffrey A. Bennett focuses on how the disease is imagined in public culture. Bennett argues that popular anecdotes, media representation, and communal myths are as meaningful as medical and ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

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  • Belly of the Beast

    The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

    by Da'Shaun L. Harrison ...
    **The 2022 Lammy Award Winner in Transgender Nonfiction**Exploring the intersections of Blackness, gender, fatness, health, and the violence of policing.To live in a body both fat and Black is to exist at the margins of a society that creates the conditions for anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. Hyper-policed by state and society, passed over for housing and jobs, and derided and misdiagnosed by ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Enlightenment 2.0

    by Joseph Heath ...
    The co-author of the internationally bestselling The Rebel Sell brings us "slow politics": promoting slow thought, slow deliberation and slow debate.Over the last twenty years, the political systems of the western world have become increasingly divided--not between right and left but between crazy and non-crazy. Whats more, the crazies seem to be gaining the upper hand. Rational thought cannot ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Unshrinking

    How to Face Fatphobia

    by Kate Manne ...
    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research to expose how size discrimination harms everyone, and how to combat it—from the acclaimed author of Down Girl and Entitled“An elegant, fierce, and profound argument for fighting fat oppression in ourselves, our communities, and our culture.”—Roxane Gay, author of HungerA ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Against Purity

    Living Ethically in Compromised Times

    by Alexis Shotwell ...
    The world is in a terrible mess. It is toxic, irradiated, and full of injustice. Aiming to stand aside from the mess can produce a seemingly satisfying self-righteousness in the scant moments we achieve it, but since it is ultimately impossible, individual purity will always disappoint. Might it be better to understand complexity and, indeed, our own complicity in much of what we think of as bad, ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

  • Fat Politics

    The Real Story behind America's Obesity Epidemic

    by J. Eric Oliver ...
    It seems almost daily we read newspaper articles and watch news reports exposing the growing epidemic of obesity in America. Our government tells us we are experiencing a major health crisis, with sixty percent of Americans classified as overweight, and one in four as obese. But how valid are these claims? In Fat Politics, J. Eric Oliver shows how a handful of doctors, government bureaucrats, and ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • An Introduction to Veterinary Medical Ethics

    Theory and Cases

    by Bernard E. Rollin ...
    One of the most difficult issues that confronts veterinarians and staff today concerns the profession’s obligation to the animal and the sometimes conflicting demands from clients, peers and society. The veterinarian’s role has become more complex with new ethical challenges posed by issues such as growing public awareness regarding animal welfare, increasing economic value of companion animals, ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

  • The Fat Studies Reader

    Edited by Esther Rothblum, Sondra Solovay ...
    Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in PsychologyWinner of the 2010 Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Edited Volume in Women’s Studies from the Popular Culture AssociationWe have all seen the segments on television news shows: A fat person walking on the sidewalk, her face out of frame so she can't be identified, as some disconcerting findings about ... Read more

    $27.09 CAD

  • The Future of Nutrition

    An Insider's Look at the Science, Why We Keep Getting It Wrong, and How to Start Getting It Right

    by T. Colin Campbell ...
    From the coauthor of The China Study and author of the New York Times bestselling follow-up, WholeDespite extensive research and overwhelming public information on nutrition and health science, we are more confused than ever—about the foods we eat, what good nutrition looks like, and what it can do for our health.In The Future of Nutrition, T. Colin Campbell cuts through the noise with an in-depth ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • The Logic of Care

    Health and the Problem of Patient Choice

    by Annemarie Mol ...
    **Shortlisted for the BSA Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2010**What is good care? In this innovative and compelling book, Annemarie Mol argues that good care has little to do with 'patient choice' and, therefore, creating more opportunities for patient choice will not improve health care.Although it is possible to treat people who seek professional help as customers or citizens, Mol ... Read more

    $111.30 CAD

  • Why Veganism Matters

    The Moral Value of Animals

    by Gary Francione ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law
    Most people care about animals, but only a tiny fraction are vegan. The rest often think of veganism as an extreme position. They certainly do not believe that they have a moral obligation to become vegan.Gary L. Francione—the leading and most provocative scholar of animal rights theory and law—demonstrates that veganism is a moral imperative and a matter of justice. He shows that there is a ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Introduction to Animal Rights

    Your Child or the Dog?

    by Gary Francione ...
    Two-thirds of Americans polled by the Associated Press agree with the following statement: "An animal's right to live free of suffering should be just as important as a person's right to live free of suffering." More than 50 percent of Americans believe that it is wrong to kill animals to make fur coats or to hunt them for sport. But these same Americans eat hamburgers, take their children to ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD