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  • Culture and Meaning in Health Services Research

    An Applied Approach

    by Elisa J Sobo ...
    Culture and Meaning in Health Services Research is a practical guide to applying interpretive qualitative methods to pressing healthcare delivery problems. A leading medical anthropologist who has spent many years working in applied healthcare settings, Sobo combines sophisticated theoretical insights and methodological rigor with authentic, real-world examples and applications. In addition to ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Dynamics of Human Biocultural Diversity

    A Unified Approach

    by Elisa J. Sobo ...
    This lively text by leading medical anthropologist Elisa J. Sobo offers a unique, holistic approach to human diversity and rises to the challenge of truly integrating biology and culture. The inviting writing style and fascinating examples make important ideas from complexity theory and epigenetics accessible to students. In this second edition, the material has been updated to reflect changes in ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The Endangered Self

    Identity and Social Risk

    by Gill Green, Elisa Sobo ...
    To date, the majority of HIV/AIDS research has concentrated on education and prevention for those with a seronegative status, while studies of HIV positive individuals have been concerned with their potential to infect others. The Endangered Self however, focuses on how the discovery of an HIV positive status affects the individual's sense of identity, on the experience of living with HIV and its ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The anthropology of power, agency, and morality

    The enduring legacy of F. G. Bailey

    Edited by Victor de Munck, Elisa J. Sobo ...
    The works of F. G. Bailey (1924–2020) provide a seminal template for good ethnography. Central to this is Bailey’s ability to conceptually connect the well-described micro-contexts of individual interactions to the macro-context of culture. Bailey’s core concerns – the tension between individual and collective interests, the will to power, and the dialectics of social forces which foster both ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Contraception across Cultures

    Technologies, Choices, Constraints

    Edited by Andrew Russell, Mary Thompson, Elisa J. Sobo ...
    Series series Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women
    Contraception is an issue of considerable concern to a great many heterosexually active people. Yet the impact of contraceptive technologies in the world today, in particular their implications for kinship, gender relations, and other aspects of social life, receives relatively little scholarly attention. This book brings a new perspective to the study of contraception, by collecting together in ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Work of Hospitals

    Global Medicine in Local Cultures

    by William C. Olsen, Carolyn Sargent, Morgan K. Hoke, Samya R. Stumo, Thomas L. Leatherman, Cheryl Mattingly, John M. Janzen, Mark Nichter, Ghislain Emmanuel Sopoh0, Roch Christian Johnson1, Anita Chary2, Peter Rohloff3, Adrienne E. Strong4, Vania Smith-Oka5, Kayla Hurd6, Elisa (EJ) Sobo7, Eugenia Georges8, Emma Varley9, Claire Wendland0, Anita Hannig1 ...
    In the context of neoliberalism and global austerity measures, health care institutions around the world confront numerous challenges in attempting to meet the needs of local populations. Examples from Africa (including, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Congo), Latin America (Peru, Mexico, Guatemala), Western Europe (France, Greece), and the United States illustrate how hospitals play a significant role in ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Using Methods in the Field

    A Practical Introduction and Casebook

    by H. Russell Bernard, Gery Ryan, Thomas Weisner, Mark S. Fleisher, Jennifer A. Harrington, Juliana Flinn, Gun Roos, Allen Johnson, Robert C. Harman, Carole E. Hill, W. Penn Handwerker, Douglas Caulkins, Javier Garcia de Alba Garcia, Ana Leticia Salcedo Rocha, Guadarrama L. A. Vargas, Trini Garro, Jeffrey C. Johnson, David C. Griffith, Lauren Clark, Carol P. Vojir, Nancy O. Hester, Roxie Foster, Karen L. Miller, Stephen P. Borgatti ...
    Methods textbooks generally offer prescriptive advice on how to perform certain techniques, how to develop specific strategies, how to analyze your results. But, as all experienced ethnographers know, this fine-sounding advice rarely provides ample guidance in dealing with real people in real field settings. That is where this casebook differs. Selecting many key methods regularly used by ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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    by W. Paul Vogt, PhD, Dianne C. Gardner, PhD, Lynne M. Haeffele, PhD ...
    Systematic, practical, and accessible, this is the first book to focus on finding the most defensible design for a particular research question. Thoughtful guidelines are provided for weighing the advantages and disadvantages of various methods, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods designs. The book can be read sequentially or readers can dip into chapters on specific stages of ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Development as Freedom

    by Amartya Sen ...
    By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century.Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population. Releasing the idea of individual freedom ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Turnaway Study

    The Cost of Denying Women Access to Abortion

    by Diana Greene Foster, Ph.D ...
    “If you read only one book about democracy, The Turnaway Study should be it. Why? Because without the power to make decisions about our own bodies, there is no democracy.” —Gloria SteinemThe “remarkable” (The New Yorker) landmark study of the consequences on women’s lives—emotional, physical, financial, professional, personal, and psychological—of receiving versus being denied an abortion that ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Case Study Research and Applications

    Design and Methods

    by Robert K. Yin ...
    Winner of the 2019 McGuffey Longevity Award from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA)Recognized as one of the most cited methodology books in the social sciences, the Sixth Edition of Robert K. Yin′s bestselling text provides a complete portal to the world of case study research. With the integration of 11 applications in this edition, the book gives readers access to exemplary case ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Experience Research Social Change

    Critical Methods, Third Edition

    by Colleen Reid, Lorraine Greaves, Sandra Kirby ...
    Experience Research Social Change is a “how to” guide to research that also raises broader theoretical, methodological, and ethical questions. First published in 1989, it was the first critical methods book, and continues to inspire generations of researchers, students, and community workers.The third edition has been thoroughly revised, now containing twelve chapters organized into three parts: ... Read more

    $43.19 USD