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  • Healing at the Periphery

    Ethnographies of Tibetan Medicine in India

    Edited by Laurent Pordié, Stephan Kloos ...
    India has long occupied an important place in Tibetan medicine's history and development. However, Indian Himalayan practitioners of Tibetan medicine, or amchi, have largely remained overlooked at the Tibetan medical periphery, despite playing a central social and medical role in their communities. Power and legitimacy, religion and economic development, biomedical encounters and Indian ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Tibetan Medicine in the Contemporary World

    Global Politics of Medical Knowledge and Practice

    Edited by Laurent Pordié ...
    Series series Needham Research Institute Series
    The popularity of Tibetan medicine plays a central role in the international market for alternative medicine and has been increasing and extending far beyond its original cultural area becoming a global phenomenon. This book analyses Tibetan medicine in the 21st century by considering the contemporary reasons that have led to its diversity and by bringing out the common orientations of this ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Circulation and Governance of Asian Medicine

    Edited by Céline Coderey, Laurent Pordié ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
    This book unpacks the organized sets of practices that govern contemporary Asian medicine, from production of medications in the lab to their circulation within circuits and networks of all kinds, and examines the plurality of actors involved in such governance.Chapters analyze the process of industrialization and commercialization of Asian medicine and the ways in which the expansion of the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Global Health for All

    Knowledge, Politics, and Practices

    by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Andrew McDowell, Claudia Lang, Claire Beaudevin, Olivia Fiorilli, Lucile Ruault, Anne M. Lovell0, Caroline Meier zu Biesen1, Jessica Pourraz2, Vegard Traavik Sture3, Mandy Geise4, Sameea Ahmed Hassim5, Fanny Chabrol6, Christoph Gradmann7, Laurent Pordié8, Simeng Wang9 ...
    Global Health for All trains a critical lens on global health to share the stories that global health’s practices and logics tell about 20th and 21st century configurations of science and power. An ethnography on multiple scales, the book focuses on global health’s key epistemic and therapeutic practices like localization, measurement, triage, markets, technology, care, and regulation. Its roving ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Global health and the new world order

    Historical and anthropological approaches to a changing regime of governance

    Edited by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Claire Beaudevin, Christoph Gradmann, Anne M. Lovell, Laurent Pordié ...
    Series Book 36 - Social Histories of Medicine
    The phrase ‘global health’ appears ubiquitously in contemporary medical spheres, from academic research programs to websites of pharmaceutical companies. In its most visible manifestation, global health refers to strategies addressing major epidemics and endemic conditions through philanthropy, and multilateral, private-public partnerships. This book explores the origins of global health, a new ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Controversy in Cardiology

    The Practical Clinical Approach

    by G.E. Burch, L.S. Chung, R.L. DeJoseph, J.E. Doherty, D.J.W. Escher, S.M. Fox, T. Giles, R. Gottlieb, A.D. Hagan, W.D. Johnson, R.I. Levy, M. Luxton, M.T. Monroe, L.A. Papa, T. Peter, L. Pordy, B.M. Rifkind, W.C. Roberts, A. Rosenthal, N. Ruggiero, R.T. Shore, G. Sloman, C.L. Weisberger, D.P. Zipes ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The purpose of this book is not to discuss in depth various topics in medicine nor to describe in detail all possible controversial subjects in car diology. The primary intention is to describe common cardiac problems with significant controversial viewpoints frequently encountered in our daily practice. This book presents 19 chapters, including the Coronary Arteries in Fatal Coronary Events, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    Edited by Drue H. Barrett, Leonard W. Ortmann, Angus Dawson, Carla Saenz, Andreas Reis, Gail Bolan ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This Open Access book highlights the ethical issues and dilemmas that arise in the practice of public health. It is also a tool to support instruction, debate, and dialogue regarding public health ethics. Although the practice of public health has always included consideration of ethical issues, the field of public health ethics as a discipline is a relatively new and emerging area. There are few ... Read more

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  • When People Come First

    Critical Studies in Global Health

    Edited by João Biehl, Adriana Petryna ...
    A people-centered approach to global healthWhen People Come First critically assesses the expanding field of global health. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address the medical, social, political, and economic dimensions of the global health enterprise through vivid case studies and bold conceptual work. The book demonstrates the crucial role of ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Medical Anthropology

    Edited by Merrill Singer, Pamela I. Erickson ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
    A Companion to Medical Anthropology examines the current issues, controversies, and state of the field in medical anthropology today.Provides an expert view of the major topics and themes to concern the discipline since its founding in the 1960sWritten by leading international scholars in medical anthropologyCovers environmental health, global health, biotechnology, syndemics, nutrition, substance ... Read more

    $48.00 USD

  • Ethics in Health Services and Policy

    A Global Approach

    by Dean M. Harris ...
    Series Book 43 - Jossey-Bass Public Health
    This comprehensive textbook analyzes the ethical issues of health and health care in global perspective. Ideal for students of public health, medicine, nursing and allied health professions, public policy, and ethics, the book helps students in all these areas to develop important competencies in their chosen fields. Applying a comparative, or multicultural, approach, the book compares different ... Read more

    $89.00 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology

    Edited by Lenore Manderson, Elizabeth Cartwright, Anita Hardon ...
    Series series Routledge Anthropology Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology provides a contemporary overview of the key themes in medical anthropology. In this exciting departure from conventional handbooks, compendia and encyclopedias, the three editors have written the core chapters of the volume, and in so doing, invite the reader to reflect on the ethnographic richness and theoretical contributions of research on the ... Read more

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  • Global Pharmaceuticals

    Ethics, Markets, Practices

    Edited by Adriana Petryna, Andrew Lakoff, Arthur Kleinman ...
    In some parts of the world spending on pharmaceuticals is astronomical. In others people do not have access to basic or life-saving drugs. Individuals struggle to afford medications; whole populations are neglected, considered too poor to constitute profitable markets for the development and distribution of necessary drugs. The ethnographies brought together in this timely collection analyze both ... Read more

    $25.19 USD