A courtship after marriage [[electronic resource] ] : sexuality and love in Mexican transnational families / / Jennifer S. Hirsch |
Autore | Hirsch Jennifer S |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (399 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.81/0972 |
Soggetto topico |
Marriage - Mexico
Marriage - Georgia - Atlanta Region Man-woman relationships - Mexico Man-woman relationships - Georgia - Atlanta Region Mexicans - Sexual behavior Mexican Americans - Sexual behavior - Georgia - Atlanta Region Companionate marriage - Mexico Companionate marriage - Georgia - Atlanta Region |
Soggetto non controllato |
academic
atlanta childbirth cultural anthropology doctors domestic ethnographic ethnography fertility issues fertility rate fertility gender studies gender immigrants latin america marriage and family marriage medical science mexico reproduction reproductive health rural communities rural mexico scholarly sexual intercourse sexuality social changes womens health womens issues |
ISBN |
1-59734-451-6
0-520-93583-7 9786612762499 1-282-76249-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | "Here with us", introduction to a transnational community -- From respeto (respect) to confianza (trust), changing marital ideals -- "Ya no somos como nuestros papas" (We are not like our parents) : companionate marriage in a Mexican migrant community -- Representing change : a methodological pause to reflect -- "En el norte la mujer manda" (In the north, the woman gives the orders) : how migration changes marriage -- Sexual intimacy in Mexican companionate marriages -- Fertility decline, contraceptive choice, and Mexican companionate marriages. |
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Hirsch Jennifer S
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DNA [[electronic resource] ] : promise and peril / / Linda L. McCabe and Edward R.B. McCabe ; with a foreword by Victor A. McKusick |
Autore | McCabe Linda L. <1947-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (357 p.) |
Disciplina | 616/.042 |
Altri autori (Persone) | McCabeEdward R. B |
Soggetto topico |
Medical genetics - Moral and ethical aspects
Genetic engineering - Moral and ethical aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
abuse
abusive academic biology business civil rights cloning commodity cultural history cultural studies culture discovery discrimination dna ethics ethnicity evolution genetic revolution genetics genome genomics human centered biology judgement legal issues medical science medicine reproduction scholarly science scientific social history social issues social studies |
ISBN |
1-281-38549-2
9786611385491 0-520-93393-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | DNA sequence does not equal destiny -- What is genomics? -- Genetic determinism -- The evolution and deconstruction of human-centered biology -- Race and ethnicity : your history is written in your genes -- Gender as a spectrum, not a dichotomy -- Genome-based forensics -- When genes belong to groups and not individuals -- Genes as commodities : ownership of genes by business interests -- Protection against genetic discrimination : the new civil right -- Reproductive technologies : on the road to designer babies? -- Reproductive cloning : from farm animals to pets to humans? -- Therapeutic cloning and regenerative medicine -- Gene therapy : can the promise be fulfilled? -- Large population assessments : the foundation for genomic medicine -- Hidden destiny : unbounded by your DNA. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782013503321 |
McCabe Linda L. <1947->
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How the cows turned mad [[electronic resource] ] : unlocking the mysteries of mad cow disease / / Maxime Schwartz ; translated by Edward Schneider ; with a new foreword by Marion Nestle |
Autore | Schwartz Maxime <1940-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (260 p.) |
Disciplina | 616.8/3 |
Soggetto topico |
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Prion diseases in animals - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
agriculture
beef biology brain infection cannibalism carnism carnivore cattle cows disease food and culture food studies food genetics health heredity infectious disease kuru life sciences mad cow mammals meat eating meat medical nonfiction medical science medicine molecular biology neuroscience nonfiction papua new guinea pasteur prion disease prion hypothesis science scrapie sheep transmissible spongiform encephalopathy tse zoology |
ISBN |
1-282-35762-X
9786612357626 0-520-93151-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION -- PROLOGUE -- 1: THE SHEEP ARE STRANGELY DIZZY -- 2: MOLECULES AND MICROBES -- 3: MAO DOGS AND EARTHWORMS -- 4: SCRAPIE UNDER THE MICROSCOPE -- 5: CREUTZFELOT, JAKOB, AND OTHERS -- 6: SCRAPIE IS INOCULABLE -- 7: AND GOATS, AND MICE -- 8: SCRAPIE IS CONTAGIOUS -- 9: KURU AND THE FORE PEOPLE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA -- 10: THE WALL COMES DOWN -- 11: FROM PEARL NECKLACE TO DOUBLE HELIX -- 12: THE PHANTOM VIRUS -- 13: A TRAGEDY I N THE MAKING -- 14: ONE CASE PER MILLION -- 15: PRIONS -- 16: APRIL 1985 -- 17: THE "KISS OF DEATH" -- 18: THE RETURN OF THE SPONTANEISTS -- 19: TO GROW-AND TO DIE -- 20: LESSONS LEARNED -- 21: HAVE THE COWS GONE MAD? -- 22: FROM COWS TO HUMANS -- 23: FROM COWS TO SHEEP? FROM HUMANS TO HUMANS? -- 24: THE SECRET IN THE CLOSET -- 25: UNMASKING "THE DISEASE" -- 26: HAVE WE CONllUERED "THE DISEASE"? -- 27: 2001 -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CHRONOLOGY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX |
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Schwartz Maxime <1940->
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Under the medical gaze : facts and fictions of chronic pain / / Susan Greenhalgh |
Autore | Greenhalgh Susan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 371 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina |
616/.0472/092
B |
Soggetto topico |
Chronic pain - Patients - United States
Arthritis - Patients - United States Fibromyalgia - Patients - United States Physician and patient Diagnostic errors |
Soggetto non controllato |
alternative medicine
american health care biomedical chronic disease chronic pain cultural studies detective diagnosis disease ethnography feminism feminist fibromyalgia health and wellness health care system health care health issues healthy living medical issues medical science medical system medicine mental health pain disorder pain management physical health physical therapy psychology social studies sociopolitical therapy |
ISBN |
0-520-92509-2
9786613811653 1-59734-971-2 1-282-23391-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: Understanding Chronic Pain -- Part Two: Doing Biomedicine -- Part Three: Doing Gender -- Part Four: A Losing Battle to Get Better -- Part Five: Rebellion and Self-Renewal -- Part Six: Narrating Illness, Politicizing Pain -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782905403321 |
Greenhalgh Susan
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