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  • Managing Motherhood, Managing Risk

    Fertility and Danger in West Central Tanzania

    par Denise Allen ...
    In Managing Motherhood, Managing Risk, Denise Roth Allen persuasively argues that development interventions in the Third World often have unintended and unacknowledged consequences. Based on twenty-two months of fieldwork in the Shinyanga Region of west central Tanzania, this rich and engaging ethnography of women's fertility-related experiences highlights the processes by which a set of seemingly ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • Roman Britain and Where to Find It

    par Denise Allen, Mike Bryan ...
    The Romans ruled Britannia for more than 350 years, leaving an indelible mark on our landscape. Town and countryside were transformed by innovations in comfort and culture ‒ albeit shot through with a uniquely British twist ‒ glimpses of which can still be seen at numerous splendid sites and museums in England, Wales and Scotland. Roman Britain and Where to Find It provides the history of the best ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

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  • The Politics of Breastfeeding: when breasts are bad for business

    par Gabrielle Palmer ...
    As revealing as Freakonomics, shocking as Fast Food Nation and thought provoking as No Logo, The Politics of Breastfeeding exposes infant feeding as one of the most important public health issues of our time.Every thirty seconds a baby dies from infections due to a lack of breastfeeding and the use of bottles, artificial milks and other risky products. In her powerful book Gabrielle Palmer ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • Birth and Breastfeeding

    Rediscovering the Needs of Women During Pregnancy and Childbirth

    par Michel Odent ...
    Humanity, argues Michel Odent, stands at a crossroads in the history of childbirth - and the direction we choose to take will have critical consequences. Until recently a woman could not have had a baby without releasing a complex cocktail of 'love hormones'. In many societies today, most women give birth without relying on the release of such a flow of hormones. Some give birth via caesarean ... En savoir plus

    $6.39 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Lactivism

    How Feminists and Fundamentalists, Hippies and Yuppies, and Physicians and Politicians Made Breastfeeding Big Business and Bad Policy

    par Courtney Jung ...
    Social scientist and mother Courtney Jung explores the ever-expanding world of breastfeeding advocacy, shining a new light on the diverse communities who compose it, the dubious science behind it, and the pernicious public policies to which it has given riseIs breast really best? Breastfeeding is widely assumed to be the healthiest choice, yet growing evidence suggests that its benefits have been ... En savoir plus

    $22.99 CAD

  • Mother of All Myths

    par Aminatta Forna ...
    A provocative and debate-inspiring book which explores the pressure, politics, philosophy and culture of motherhood in today’s society.Motherhood has changed. For several decades there has been tension between traditional ideas and modern values of mothering. For years the trend was away from the constraints which bound down our own mothers and towards liberating women. But in the 1980s and 1990s ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • An Anthropology of Biomedicine

    par Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Margaret M. Lock ...
    An Anthropology of Biomedicine is an exciting new introduction to biomedicine and its global implications. Focusing on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies bring about radical changes to societies at large, cultural anthropologist Margaret Lock and her co-author physician and medical anthropologist Vinh-Kim Nguyen develop and integrate the thesis that the human body in ... En savoir plus

    $63.99 CAD

  • The Anthropology of Health and Healing

    par Mari Womack ...
    The Anthropology of Health and Healing provides the first holistic approach to the study of medical anthropology. Over the past two decades, medical anthropology has been the most rapidly growing subfield in anthropology, and a number of medial anthropology texts have been published, focusing primarily on public policy and health care delivery systems. Yet while Anthropologists have researched ... En savoir plus

    $100.99 CAD

  • Commodifying Bodies

    Modifié par Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Loïc Wacquant ...
    Collections series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    Increasingly the body is a possession that does not belong to us. It is bought and sold, bartered and stolen, marketed wholesale or in parts. The professions - especially reproductive medicine, transplant surgery, and bioethics but also journalism and other cultural specialists - have been pliant partners in this accelerating commodification of live and dead human organisms. Under the guise of ... En savoir plus

    $95.99 CAD

  • Reproductive Rights and Wrongs

    The Global Politics of Population Control

    par Betsy Hartmann ...
    "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, ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Bodies, Politics, and African Healing

    The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania

    par Stacey A. Langwick ...
    This subtle and powerful ethnography examines African healing and its relationship to medical science. Stacey A. Langwick investigates the practices of healers in Tanzania who confront the most intractable illnesses in the region, including AIDS and malaria. She reveals how healers generate new therapies and shape the bodies of their patients as they address devils and parasites, anti-witchcraft ... En savoir plus

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Global Biopolitics of the IUD

    How Science Constructs Contraceptive Users and Women's Bodies

    par Chikako Takeshita ...
    Collections series Inside Technology
    The biography of a multifaceted technological object, the IUD, illuminates how political contexts shaped contraceptive development, marketing, use, and users.The intrauterine device (IUD) is used by 150 million women around the world. It is the second most prevalent method of female fertility control in the global South and the third most prevalent in the global North. Over its five decades of use ... En savoir plus

    $36.79 CAD