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“Attached Files”
Anthropological Essays on Body, Psyche, Attachment and Spirituality
In this selection of lectures and papers, medical anthropologist Imre Lázár explores the synergic logic of human bonds. Using attachment as a core concept, he connects anthropology, health sciences, religious studies, and ecology.
In this selection of lectures and papers, medical anthropologist Imre Lázár explores the synergic logic of human bonds. Using attachment as a core concept, he connects anthropology, health sciences, religious studies, and ecology.
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On Resentment
Past and Present
Resentment has a history. With the French Revolution as a turning point, this volume explores its evolution from a social passion for justice to a pathological symptom, revealing how this cultural experience has shaped social movements and the present world.
Resentment has a history. With the French Revolution as a turning point, this volume explores its evolution from a social passion for justice to a pathological symptom, revealing how this cultural experience has shaped social movements and the present world.
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Disease, Class and Social Change
Tuberculosis in Folkestone and Sandgate, 1880-1930
This history of tuberculosis treatment demonstrates how class shaped responses to the disease. It analyses the conflict between viewing TB as a disease of poverty requiring social reform, and a focus on isolating those deemed to possess an hereditary taint.
This history of tuberculosis treatment demonstrates how class shaped responses to the disease. It analyses the conflict between viewing TB as a disease of poverty requiring social reform, and a focus on isolating those deemed to possess an hereditary taint.
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The Proceedings of the 18th Annual History of Medicine Days Conference 2009
The University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine, Alberta, Canada
This peer-reviewed volume collects papers from the History of Medicine Days conference, exploring topics from Ancient Medicine to Eugenics, Military Medicine, and Surgery. The book features the keynote address on the misuse of genetics by Dr. Garland E. Allen.
This peer-reviewed volume collects papers from the History of Medicine Days conference, exploring topics from Ancient Medicine to Eugenics, Military Medicine, and Surgery. The book features the keynote address on the misuse of genetics by Dr. Garland E. Allen.
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This book examines how doctors responded to trench diseases in the Great War. Faced with "new" conditions, a majority view emerged that they were a product of the trenches. This enabled an effective response using public health methods and military discipline.
This book examines how doctors responded to trench diseases in the Great War. Faced with “new” conditions, a majority view emerged that they were a product of the trenches. This enabled an effective response using public health methods and military discipline.
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Transnational Psychiatries
Social and Cultural Histories of Psychiatry in Comparative Perspective c. 1800-2000
This book offers a new, transnational history of psychiatry. Through original case studies from South America, Asia, the Pacific, and Europe, it explores the global transfer of practices, revealing commonalities, contrasts, and interconnections.
This book offers a new, transnational history of psychiatry. Through original case studies from South America, Asia, the Pacific, and Europe, it explores the global transfer of practices, revealing commonalities, contrasts, and interconnections.
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These essays illustrate the power of gender stereotypes to shape how medicine is practiced and perceived. The chapters investigate gendered perceptions of healers and patients in narratives across fiction, memoir, film, new media, and visual art.
These essays illustrate the power of gender stereotypes to shape how medicine is practiced and perceived. The chapters investigate gendered perceptions of healers and patients in narratives across fiction, memoir, film, new media, and visual art.
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