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  • Religion and Sexuality in Zimbabwe

    Religion and Sexuality in Zimbabwe highlights the complex interplay between religion and sexuality in Zimbabwe. It shows how religion both facilitates and complicates the expression of sexuality in Zimbabwe. Approaching religion from a broader perspective, this volume reviews the impact of African Indigenous Religions and Christianity in its varied forms on the construction and expression of ... Read more

    $115.89 CAD

  • Religion and COVID-19 Vaccination in Zimbabwe

    Series series Routledge Studies on Religion in Africa and the Diaspora
    This book analyses the role of religion during the COVID- 19 pandemic and vaccination rollout in Zimbabwe.Zimbabwe was listed by the World Health Organization (WHO) as one of thirteen African countries to have fully vaccinated more than 10% of its population against COVID- 19 by the end of September 2021, but the country fell far short of the government’s own target for achieving 60% inoculation ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Religion and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Southern Africa

    Series series Routledge Studies on Religion in Africa and the Diaspora
    This book investigates the role of religion in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Southern Africa.Building on a diverse range of methodologies and disciplinary approaches, the book reflects on how religion, politics and health have interfaced in Southern African contexts, when faced with the sudden public health emergency caused by the pandemic. Religious actors have played a key role on the ... Read more

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    Cultural, National, and Individual Constructions of COVID-19

    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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  • HIV & AIDS

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In 2008 it was believed that HIV/AIDS was without doubt the worst epidemic to hit humankind since the Black Death. The first case was identified in 1981; by 2004 it was estimated that about 40 million people were living with the disease, and about 20 million had died. Yet the outlook today is a little brighter. Although HIV/ AIDS continues to be a pressing public health issue the epidemic has ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • Reproductive Rights and Wrongs

    The Global Politics of Population Control

    "Those involved in women's health issues, Third World studies, and economic development should find food for thought" ( Kirkus Reviews).This is an updated edition of the "influential study" ( Publishers Weekly) of issues surrounding childbirth and the history of population control programs.Challenging conventional wisdom about overpopulation, and uncovering the deeper roots of poverty, ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Public Health in the Age of Anxiety

    Religious and Cultural Roots of Vaccine Hesitancy in Canada

    Controversies and scepticism surrounding vaccinations, though not new, have increasingly come to the fore as more individuals decide not to inoculate themselves or their children for cultural, religious, or other reasons. Their personal decisions put the rights of the individual on a collision course with public and community safety.Public Health in the Age of Anxiety enhances both the public and ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • HIV in South Africa

    Talking about the big thing

    Winner of the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2008Of approximately 37 million HIV positive people in the world, 24.7 million live in sub-Saharan Africa and about 5..5 million in South Africa. Despite its relatively powerful economy and infrastructure, South Africa has been dramatically affected by the HIV pandemic. Using narrative analysis of a three year interview study and textual ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Bioethics: The Basics

    Series series The Basics
    Bioethics: The Basics is an introduction to the foundational principles, theories and issues in the study of medical and biological ethics. Readers are introduced to bioethics from the ground up before being invited to consider some of the most controversial but important questions facing us today. Topics addressed include:the range of moral theories underpinning bioethicsarguments for the rights ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

  • AIDS Doesn't Show Its Face

    Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria

    AIDS and Africa are indelibly linked in popular consciousness, but despite widespread awareness of the epidemic, much of the story remains hidden beneath a superficial focus on condoms, sex workers, and antiretrovirals. Africa gets lost in this equation, Daniel Jordan Smith argues, transformed into a mere vehicle to explain AIDS, and in AIDS Doesn't Show Its Face, he offers a powerful reversal, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reproduction, Globalization, and the State

    New Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectives

    Reproduction, Globalization, and the State conceptualizes and puts into practice a global anthropology of reproduction and reproductive health. Leading anthropologists offer new perspectives on how transnational migration and global flows of communications, commodities, and biotechnologies affect the reproductive lives of women and men in diverse societies throughout the world. Based on research ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Religion and AIDS in Africa

    The first comprehensive empirical account of how religion affects the interpretation, prevention, and mitigation of AIDS in Africa, the world's most religious continent. ... Read more

    $58.39 CAD