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  • Metabolic Living

    Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India

    by Harris Solomon ...
    Series series Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
    The popular narrative of "globesity" posits that the adoption of Western diets is intensifying obesity and diabetes in the Global South and that disordered metabolisms are the embodied consequence of globalization and excess. In Metabolic Living Harris Solomon recasts these narratives by examining how people in Mumbai, India, experience the porosity between food, fat, the body, and the city. ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century

    by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, Junko Kitanaka, Eugene Raikhel, Mara Buchbinder, Jocelyn Lim Chua, Stefan Ecks, Denielle Elliott, Michele Friedner0, Duana Fullwiley1, Paul Wenzel Geissler2, T.S. Harvey3, Gideon Lasco4, Peter Mangesho5, Caroline Meier zu Biesen6, Todd Meyers7, Vera Ngowi8, Michelle Pentecost9, Ruth Prince0, Christine Sargent1, Harris Solomon2, Lulu Tessua3, Anitha Tingira4, Ayo Wahlberg5, Emily Yates-Doerr6 ...
    Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century provides readers with a comprehensive survey of topics, methodologies, and theories in the discipline, drawing on contributions from leading anthropologists around the world. As a discipline, medical anthropology provides situational analysis of health, disease, and disability to show how the experiences of medical experts, patients, and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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    The Disappearers

    A Novel

    by Marlon James ...
    Narrated by Brandon Miles, Michael Sean Harris, Solomon Peck, Andrew Clarke, Karl O'Brian Williams, Ano Okera ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 55 min

    **LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 BOOKER PRIZE“Among Marlon James’s most ambitious and history-making works… James is a singular literary talent.” –Booker Prize judge's citationFrom Marlon James, author of the Booker Prize–winning A Brief History of Seven Killings: the electrifying story of the murder of a gay man in 1980s Jamaica and its far-reaching consequences**In 1988, eight men in Kingston, Jamaica, ... Read more

    $46.00 CAD

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  • Neurosyphilis

    by Harry C. Solomon; Elmer Ernest Southard ...
    "Neurosyphilis" by Harry C. Solomon and Elmer Ernest Southard is a seminal work that delves into the complex relationship between syphilis and its neurological manifestations. The authors meticulously explore the pathophysiology of the disease, detailing how the treponema pallidum bacterium can lead to severe neurological complications if left untreated. Their comprehensive analysis includes case ... Read more

    $1.31 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Neurosyphilis: Modern Systematic Diagnosis and Treatment Presented In One Hundred And Thirty-Seven Case Histories

    by Harry Caesar Solomon & Elmer Ernest Southard ...
    It is a privilege to be allowed to write a word of introduction to a textbook which so richly fulfils its function as does this volume on the manifold disorders classified under Neurosyphilis, a subject of which the importance for the welfare of society is found to loom the larger the more deeply its mysteries are probed. The case histories with which its pages are so amply stocked are carefully ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fountain Of Life

    by Solomon ibn Gabirol, Harry E. Wedeck ...
    The Fountain of Lifeby Solomon ibn Gabirol, tr. by Harry E. WedeckAn extract from the Jewish writer Solomon ibn Gabirol's philosophical treatise on the First Cause"Solomon ibn Gabirol, also known as Avicebron, was a Spanish-Jewish poet and philosopher of the eleventh century. This is a translation of a key extract from his major philosophical work, the Fons Vitae, or Fountain of Life. In this text ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

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    This second edition of A Companion to Bioethics, fully revised and updated to reflect the current issues and developments in the field, covers all the material that the reader needs to thoroughly grasp the ideas and debates involved in bioethics.Thematically organized around an unparalleled range of issues, including discussion of the moral status of embryos and fetuses, new genetics, life and ... Read more

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  • Gender

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Laura Erickson-Schroth, Benjamin Davis ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs to Know
    The term "gender" was first distinguished from "sex" in the 1950s when psychologists began to discuss the idea of "gender roles," behaviors and responsibilities given to people by a society rather than flowing from their biology. Since then, leaders across disciplines have sought to better understand the roles of biology, psychology, and culture on gender. New language has emerged alongside rich ... Read more

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  • Inclusion

    The Politics of Difference in Medical Research

    by Steven Epstein ...
    With Inclusion, Steven Epstein argues that strategies to achieve diversity in medical research mask deeper problems, ones that might require a different approach and different solutions.Formal concern with this issue, Epstein shows, is a fairly recent phenomenon. Until the mid-1980s, scientists often studied groups of white, middle-aged men—and assumed that conclusions drawn from studying them ... 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

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    Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience

    by M. Murphy ...
    Series series Experimental futures
    In Seizing the Means of Reproduction, M. Murphy's initial focus on the alternative health practices developed by radical feminists in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s opens into a sophisticated analysis of the transnational entanglements of American empire, population control, neoliberalism, and late-twentieth-century feminisms. Murphy concentrates on the technoscientific means—the ... Read more

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