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“bruno salgues”

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  • The Covid-19 Crisis

    From a Question of an Epidemic to a Societal Questioning, Volume 4

    by Bruno Salgues, Jacques Barnouin ...
    The threats of emerging diseases have shaken certainties about health systems, the effectiveness of governance, lifestyles and the reality of national sovereignty.The Covid-19 Crisis analyzes the global issues related to the emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus through investigations and reflections related to both the epidemic itself (epidemiology, computerized surveillance tools and vaccines) and ... Read more

    $188.99 CAD

  • Health Industrialization

    by Bruno Salgues ...
    Health Industrialization discusses the way healthcare professionals distinguish between medicine, surgery, and diet and lifestyle guidelines. In other words, the ways that medicine aims to provide quantity of life. Men and women would rather remain in good health as long as possible and compensate for the deficiencies that crop up to the best of their abilities. Hence, they are looking for quality ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Society 5.0

    Industry of the Future, Technologies, Methods and Tools

    by Bruno Salgues ...
    Following the rapid development of connected technologies, which are now highly sophisticated and spread across the globe, Society 5.0 has emerged and brought with it a dramatic societal shift.In 1998, Kodak, the world leader in photographic film, had 170,000 employees. It thus seemed unthinkable that just 3 years later, the majority of people would stop taking photographs to paper film and that ... Read more

    $174.99 CAD

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    Figuring Out the French

    by Gilles Asselin, Ruth Mastron ...
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  • Living with Cancer

    A Journey

    by Andrew Griffith ...
    In June 2009, Andrew Griffith’s life turned upside down with his diagnosis of mantle cell lymphoma, an aggressive and incurable form of lymphoma. Join Andrew through his treatment, recovery, relapse and further treatment over a three year period, as he is faced with numerous physical, emotional and relationship challenges.This book recounts one man’s experience, reactions and reflections on how he ... Read more

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  • Pain and Prejudice

    What Science Can Learn about Work from the People Who Do It

    by Karen Messing ...
    In 1978, when workers at a nearby phosphate refinery learned that the ore they processed was contaminated with radioactive dust, Karen Messing, then a new professor of molecular genetics, was called in to help. Unsure of what to do with her discovery that exposure to the radiation was harming the workers and their families, Messing contacted senior colleagues but they wouldn’t help. Neither the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Negotiating the Pandemic

    Cultural, National, and Individual Constructions of COVID-19

    Edited by Inayat Ali, Robbie Davis-Floyd ...
    Series Book 19 - Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology
    This book centers on negotiations around cultural, governmental, and individual constructions of COVID-19. It considers how the coronavirus pandemic has been negotiated in different cultures and countries, with the final part of the volume focusing on South Asia and Pakistan in particular. The chapters include auto-ethnographic accounts and ethnographic explorations that reflect upon experiences ... Read more

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  • Risk Communication for the Future

    Towards Smart Risk Governance and Safety Management

    Edited by Mathilde Bourrier, Corinne Bieder ...
    Series series SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
    The conventional approach to risk communication, based on a centralized and controlled model, has led to blatant failures in the management of recent safety related events. In parallel, several cases have proved that actors not thought of as risk governance or safety management contributors may play a positive role regarding safety. Building on these two observations and bridging the gap between ... Read more

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  • Narcocapitalism

    Life in the Age of Anaesthesia

    by Laurent de Sutter ...
    Translated by Barnaby Norman ...
    What do the invention of anaesthetics in the middle of the nineteenth century, the Nazis' use of cocaine, and the development of Prozac have in common? The answer is that they're all products of the same logic that defines our contemporary era: 'the age of anaesthesia'. Laurent de Sutter shows how large aspects of our lives are now characterised by the management of our emotions through drugs, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Republic of Therapy

    Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa’s Time of AIDS

    by Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Arjun Appadurai, Jean L. Comaroff, Judith Farquhar ...
    Series series Body, Commodity, Text
    The Republic of Therapy tells the story of the global response to the HIV epidemic from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people living with HIV in West Africa. Drawing on his experiences as a physician and anthropologist in Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire, Vinh-Kim Nguyen focuses on the period between 1994, when effective antiretroviral treatments for HIV were discovered, and ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Bent out of Shape

    Shame, Solidarity, and Women's Bodies at Work

    by Karen Messing ...
    Award-winning ergonomist Karen Messing is talking with women—women who wire circuit boards, sew clothes, clean toilets, drive forklifts, care for children, serve food, run labs. What she finds is a workforce in harm’s way, choked into silence, whose physical and mental health invariably comes in second place: underestimated, underrepresented, understudied, underpaid.Should workplaces treat all ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Competitive Inteligence 2.0

    Organization, Innovation and Territory

    Edited by Luc Quoniam ...
    The recent “concept of 2.0", a consequence of "Web 2.0", discusses the emergence of a new style, emancipated from the Web, which finds applications in all areas of social activity: management, innovation, education, organization, territory, etc.This book considers the implications of the changing paradigm for competitive, economic and territorial intelligence applied to innovation, value creation ... Read more

    $216.99 CAD