African American folk healing / / Stephanie Y. Mitchem |
Autore | Mitchem Stephanie Y. <1950-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : New York University Press, , 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ix, 189 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 398.2089/96073 |
Soggetto topico |
African Americans
African Americans - Medicine Medicine shows - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
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American Mitchem about aspects between culture delineating disjunctures epistemology expressions faith healing holistic illness institutional linked medicine pointing practices shows simply that these they those views wellness |
ISBN |
0-8147-9635-4
0-8147-5962-9 1-4356-0736-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Historical paths to healing -- Stories and cures : defining African American folk healing -- Healing, the Black body, and institutional medicine : contexts for crafting wellness -- Healing in place : from past to present -- Today's healing traditions -- Healing and hybridity in the twenty-first century -- Healing the past in the present -- Religion, spirituality, and African American folk healing -- Hoodoo, conjure, and folk healing -- Conclusion. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778103103321 |
Mitchem Stephanie Y. <1950-> | ||
New York : , : New York University Press, , 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Biopolitics : An Advanced Introduction / / Thomas Lemke, Monica J. Casper, Lisa Jean Moore |
Autore | Lemke Thomas |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2011] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (160 p.) |
Disciplina | 320.01 |
Collana | Biopolitics |
Soggetto topico | Biopolitics |
Soggetto non controllato |
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Lemke been biopolitics contemporary debates decision-making eugenics everything exploring from life linked much needed offers organization overview primer providing racism rational relevance social systematic theoretical topic |
ISBN |
0-8147-5337-X
0-8147-5299-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Life as the Basis of Politics -- 2. Life as an Object of Politics -- 3. The Government of Living Beings: Michel Foucault -- 4. Sovereign Power and Bare Life: Giorgio Agamben -- 5. Capitalism and the Living Multitude: Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri -- 6. The Disappearance and Transformation of Politics -- 7. The End and Reinvention of Nature -- 8. Vital Politics and Bioeconomy -- 9. Prospect: An Analytics of Biopolitics -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791557503321 |
Lemke Thomas | ||
New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2011] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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