Birth and Death: Studying Ritual, Embodied Practices and Spirituality at the Start and End of Life |
Autore | Wojtkowiak Joanna |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (158 p.) |
Soggetto topico | Religion & beliefs |
Soggetto non controllato |
priest
Ars moriendi sharing death death teacher African birth ritual ancestor worship art birth birth altar birthing justice ceremony child childbirth Chinese birth ritual contemporary art humanism indigenous birth ritual material culture mother nonreligion nonreligious pregnancy religion re-sacralization rite of passage ritual sacred secular secularity spirituality symbol traditional birth grief bereavement death pregnancy loss embodiment metaphor rituals cultural practices Africa memory making function of ritualized acts ritualization neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) new-born bereaved parents nurses parent support group existential infrastructural breaks sociology of repair life-cycle rituals funeral market maternity care tattoo body-modification identity self-construction Dimasa death rituals urban ritual performance personhood motherhood miscarriage stillbirth abortion ritualizing qualitative research The Netherlands |
ISBN | 3-0365-5416-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Birth and Death |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910619470203321 |
Wojtkowiak Joanna
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Diagnostic or Therapeutic Strategies for Pregnancy Complications |
Autore | Heazell Alexander |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basel, : MDPI Books, 2022 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (238 p.) |
Soggetto topico | Medicine |
Soggetto non controllato |
ultrasonography
elastography uterine cervix term pregnancy parturition genotyping preeclampsia MMP-9 MMP-2 SNPs tocolytic preterm birth preterm labor neonate prematurity pregnancy therapeutic progesterone fetus sex as a biological variable sex differences pregnancy complications placenta prenatal diagnosis fetal growth restriction miscarriage chorio-deciduitis grade amnionitis acute histologic chorioamnionitis intra-amniotic inflammatory response beta-blocker endothelial dysfunction cardiovascular disease pregnancy loss immunology vascular endothelial growth factor galectin-9 interleukin-4 proteomics urine biomarkers IBP4 SHBG RPL NK cells sildenafil PDE5A VEGF-A angiotensin infant newborn female abruptio placentae Apgar score pregnant women gestational age IL-1 blockade anakinra canakinumab human inflammation fetal growth restriction (FGR) intra-uterine growth restriction (IUGR) SPINT1 HAI-1 stillbirth placental insufficiency histopathology cardiovascular risk postpartum screening |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910595070803321 |
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Fetal-Maternal Immune Interactions in Pregnancy |
Autore | Gabor Than Nandor |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Frontiers Media SA, 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (358 p.) |
Soggetto topico |
Medicine
Immunology |
Soggetto non controllato |
Infection
Inflammation miscarriage obstetrical syndromes Placenta Pregnancy maternal-fetal immune tolerance |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910557742403321 |
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Living and dying in the contemporary world : a compendium / / Veena Das and Clara Han, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (891 p.) |
Disciplina | 306 |
Soggetto topico |
Social history - 21st century
Life Death |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthropology
contemporary health care cross cultural studies death and dying death studies disability studies global health global maternal death health science hiv aids infant mortality international adoption life and death living and dying maternal mortality medical anthropology mental health miscarriage race and healthcare religious healing reproductive rights social history sociology stem cell technology tb tuberculosis transnational adoption |
ISBN | 0-520-96106-4 |
Classificazione | LC 56000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Living and Dying in the Contemporary World -- Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Concept Note -- Section 1. Natality, Sexuality, Reproduction -- 1. Maternal Mortality, Technological Innovations, and Therapeutic Strategies -- 2. Conceiving Life and Death: Stem Cell Technologies and Assisted Conception in India and the Middle East -- 3. The Pregnant Hijra: Laughter, Dead Babies, and Invaluable Love -- 4. New Lives for Children: Adoption Documents and the Law in Central Mexico -- 5. Transnational Adoption and (Im)possible Lives -- 6. "Forced Pregnancy," Humanitarian Access to Reproductive Rights, and Locating "Life" within the Powers of "Death" -- 7. Bleeding Dreams: Miscarriage and the Bindings of the Unborn in the Palestinian Refugee Community of Tyre, South Lebanon -- Section 2. Medical, Legal, and Pharmaceutical Spaces -- 8. Waiting and the Architecture of Care -- 9. The Social Phenomenology of the Next Epidemic: Pain and the Politics of Relief in Botswana's Cancer Ward -- 10. Living and Dying in Mental Health: Guns, Race, and the History of Schizophrenic Violence -- 11. The Wealth of Populations: Poverty and HIV/AIDS in Rural Central China -- 12. Living and Dying with Mycobacteria: Tuberculosis and the Regulation of Anti-tuberculous Drugs in Nepal -- 13. The Juridical Hospital -- 14. The Right of Recovery -- 15. Just Living: Law, Life, Livelihood, and Sexual Assault -- 16. "If You Remember, You Can't Live": Trauma, Insecurity, and the F/utility of "PTSD" in Haiti -- 17. Death as a Resource for Life -- Section 3. Healing: Religious and Secular Bodies -- 18. Thinking about the Secular Body, Pain, and Liberal Politics -- 19. Nonself Help: How Immunology Might Reframe the Enlightenment -- 20. Secular Histories, Saintly Returns: Death and Devotion in Modern Turkey -- 21. The Good and the Bad Breast: Cosmetic Surgery and Breast Cancer -- 22. Attachments of Life: Intimacy, Genital Injury, and the Flesh of the U.S. Soldier Body -- 23. Key Acts: Organ Transplantation and Subjectivities in the Public Sphere -- 24. Life, Death, and Reverie: Method in a Congolese Medical History -- Section 4. Precarious Lives -- 25. Life and Concept -- 26. Never Quite Given: Calling into Question the Relation between Person and World in Post-invasion Iraq -- 27. Mourning, Grief, and the Loss of Politics in Palestine: The Unvoiced Effects of Military Occupation in the West Bank -- 28. Echoes of a Death: Violence, Endurance, and the Experiences of Loss -- 29. Walking Through: Movement, Schizophrenia, and the Vicissitudes of Presence -- 30. "Not Dead Yet": Changing Disability Imaginaries in the Twenty-First Century -- 31. Suffering from Evidence: Expertise, Racial Health Disparities, and the Case of Jerry -- 32. "God Isn't Finished with This City Yet": Disputing Katrina-Related Deaths in Post-disaster New Orleans -- 33. Hunger and Thirst: Crises at Varying Thresholds of Life -- 34. "Tibet on Fire": Self-Immolation, Affect, and the Global "N of 1" -- Section 5. Death and Dying -- 35. After Life -- 36. A Good Death, Recorded -- 37. Lonely Death: Possibilities for a Not-Yet Sociality -- 38. Chemonotes -- 39. The Experience of Death in a Dutch Nursing Home: On Touching the Other -- 40. Life beside Itself -- 41. Traces of Destruction and the Thread of Continuity in Post-genocide Cambodia -- 42. Corpus Vile: Death and Expendable Youth in Urban Congo -- 43. The Value of Life and the Worth of Lives -- 44. The Evolution of Mortality Rates by Sex: The Experiences of the Rich and the Uncertainties of the Not-So-Rich -- Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797753303321 |
Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2016 | ||
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Living and dying in the contemporary world : a compendium / / Veena Das and Clara Han, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (891 p.) |
Disciplina | 306 |
Soggetto topico |
Social history - 21st century
Life Death |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthropology
contemporary health care cross cultural studies death and dying death studies disability studies global health global maternal death health science hiv aids infant mortality international adoption life and death living and dying maternal mortality medical anthropology mental health miscarriage race and healthcare religious healing reproductive rights social history sociology stem cell technology tb tuberculosis transnational adoption |
ISBN | 0-520-96106-4 |
Classificazione | LC 56000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Living and Dying in the Contemporary World -- Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Concept Note -- Section 1. Natality, Sexuality, Reproduction -- 1. Maternal Mortality, Technological Innovations, and Therapeutic Strategies -- 2. Conceiving Life and Death: Stem Cell Technologies and Assisted Conception in India and the Middle East -- 3. The Pregnant Hijra: Laughter, Dead Babies, and Invaluable Love -- 4. New Lives for Children: Adoption Documents and the Law in Central Mexico -- 5. Transnational Adoption and (Im)possible Lives -- 6. "Forced Pregnancy," Humanitarian Access to Reproductive Rights, and Locating "Life" within the Powers of "Death" -- 7. Bleeding Dreams: Miscarriage and the Bindings of the Unborn in the Palestinian Refugee Community of Tyre, South Lebanon -- Section 2. Medical, Legal, and Pharmaceutical Spaces -- 8. Waiting and the Architecture of Care -- 9. The Social Phenomenology of the Next Epidemic: Pain and the Politics of Relief in Botswana's Cancer Ward -- 10. Living and Dying in Mental Health: Guns, Race, and the History of Schizophrenic Violence -- 11. The Wealth of Populations: Poverty and HIV/AIDS in Rural Central China -- 12. Living and Dying with Mycobacteria: Tuberculosis and the Regulation of Anti-tuberculous Drugs in Nepal -- 13. The Juridical Hospital -- 14. The Right of Recovery -- 15. Just Living: Law, Life, Livelihood, and Sexual Assault -- 16. "If You Remember, You Can't Live": Trauma, Insecurity, and the F/utility of "PTSD" in Haiti -- 17. Death as a Resource for Life -- Section 3. Healing: Religious and Secular Bodies -- 18. Thinking about the Secular Body, Pain, and Liberal Politics -- 19. Nonself Help: How Immunology Might Reframe the Enlightenment -- 20. Secular Histories, Saintly Returns: Death and Devotion in Modern Turkey -- 21. The Good and the Bad Breast: Cosmetic Surgery and Breast Cancer -- 22. Attachments of Life: Intimacy, Genital Injury, and the Flesh of the U.S. Soldier Body -- 23. Key Acts: Organ Transplantation and Subjectivities in the Public Sphere -- 24. Life, Death, and Reverie: Method in a Congolese Medical History -- Section 4. Precarious Lives -- 25. Life and Concept -- 26. Never Quite Given: Calling into Question the Relation between Person and World in Post-invasion Iraq -- 27. Mourning, Grief, and the Loss of Politics in Palestine: The Unvoiced Effects of Military Occupation in the West Bank -- 28. Echoes of a Death: Violence, Endurance, and the Experiences of Loss -- 29. Walking Through: Movement, Schizophrenia, and the Vicissitudes of Presence -- 30. "Not Dead Yet": Changing Disability Imaginaries in the Twenty-First Century -- 31. Suffering from Evidence: Expertise, Racial Health Disparities, and the Case of Jerry -- 32. "God Isn't Finished with This City Yet": Disputing Katrina-Related Deaths in Post-disaster New Orleans -- 33. Hunger and Thirst: Crises at Varying Thresholds of Life -- 34. "Tibet on Fire": Self-Immolation, Affect, and the Global "N of 1" -- Section 5. Death and Dying -- 35. After Life -- 36. A Good Death, Recorded -- 37. Lonely Death: Possibilities for a Not-Yet Sociality -- 38. Chemonotes -- 39. The Experience of Death in a Dutch Nursing Home: On Touching the Other -- 40. Life beside Itself -- 41. Traces of Destruction and the Thread of Continuity in Post-genocide Cambodia -- 42. Corpus Vile: Death and Expendable Youth in Urban Congo -- 43. The Value of Life and the Worth of Lives -- 44. The Evolution of Mortality Rates by Sex: The Experiences of the Rich and the Uncertainties of the Not-So-Rich -- Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808604803321 |
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Male Germline Chromatin |
Autore | Griffin Darren |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (144 p.) |
Soggetto topico |
Research & information: general
Biology, life sciences |
Soggetto non controllato |
mouse sperm chromatin
chromosome organization nuclear-3D-parameters spermiogenesis chromatin remodeling DNA double-strand breaks genetic instability mutations sperm DNA damage DNA fragmentation infertility assisted reproduction miscarriage implantation nuclear organization sperm morphometrics chromosome painting nucleoli NOR chromosome associations meiotic prophase spermatocytes Mus m. domesticus Robertsonian chromosomes chromosome translocation Y chromosome testis spermatogenesis SLY mouse oxidative stress reactive oxygen species chromatin DNA oxidation male infertility spermatozoa chromosomes chromosome territories centromeres male germ cells telomeres reproductive aging nuclear organisation epigenetic inheritance histone retention in vitro fertilisation |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910557561103321 |
Griffin Darren
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Reproducing women [[electronic resource] ] : medicine, metaphor, and childbirth in late imperial China / / Yi-Li Wu |
Autore | Wu Yi-Li <1965-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (378 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.198/400951 |
Soggetto topico |
Childbirth - China - History
Women's health services - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
17th century
18th century 19th century childbearing childbirth china chinese culture chinese history conception cultural history dangers of childbirth development of medicine fuke health issues historical periods historical perspective ideological issues late imperial china late imperial medicine medical writings medicine miscarriage nonfiction pregnancy qing dynasty reproductive diseases women womens bodies womens issues womens medicine |
ISBN |
1-282-73255-2
9786612732553 0-520-94761-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Late Imperial Fuke and the Literate Medical Tradition -- 2. Amateur as Arbiter: Popular Fuke Manuals in the Qing -- 3. Function and Structure in the Female Body -- 4. An Uncertain Harvest: Pregnancy and Miscarriage -- 5. "Born Like a Lamb": The Discourse of Cosmologically Resonant Childbirth -- 6. To Generate and Transform: Strategies for Postpartum Health -- Epilogue: Body, Gender, and Medical Legitimacy -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785269403321 |
Wu Yi-Li <1965->
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Reproducing women : medicine, metaphor, and childbirth in late imperial China / / Yi-Li Wu |
Autore | Wu Yi-Li <1965-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (378 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.198/400951 |
Soggetto topico |
Childbirth - China - History
Women's health services - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
17th century
18th century 19th century childbearing childbirth china chinese culture chinese history conception cultural history dangers of childbirth development of medicine fuke health issues historical periods historical perspective ideological issues late imperial china late imperial medicine medical writings medicine miscarriage nonfiction pregnancy qing dynasty reproductive diseases women womens bodies womens issues womens medicine |
ISBN |
1-282-73255-2
9786612732553 0-520-94761-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Late Imperial Fuke and the Literate Medical Tradition -- 2. Amateur as Arbiter: Popular Fuke Manuals in the Qing -- 3. Function and Structure in the Female Body -- 4. An Uncertain Harvest: Pregnancy and Miscarriage -- 5. "Born Like a Lamb": The Discourse of Cosmologically Resonant Childbirth -- 6. To Generate and Transform: Strategies for Postpartum Health -- Epilogue: Body, Gender, and Medical Legitimacy -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996247974903316 |
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Rethinking the Public Fetus : Historical Perspectives on the Visual Culture of Pregnancy / / ed. by Solveig Jülich, Elisabet Björklund |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Woodbridge, Suffolk : , : Boydell and Brewer, , [2024] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (288 p.) : 75 colour illus |
Collana | Rochester Studies in Medical History |
Soggetto topico | MEDICAL / History |
Soggetto non controllato |
Lennart Nilsson
Peter the Great abortion catholicism medical education menstrual art miscarriage nationalism pregnancy public menstruation reproductive politics sex education sex hygiene films stillbirth |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Rethinking the Public Fetus: An Introduction -- 1. The Monsters of Peter and Wolff: Anatomical Preparations and Embryology in Eighteenth-Century St. Petersburg -- 2. "What Does the Eye Have to Do with Obstetrics?" The Fetus between Sight and Touch in Eighteenth-Century Italy -- 3. Paper Pregnancies: Visualizing the Maternal Body, 1870-1900 -- 4. Biological Bodies, Unfettered Imaginations: The 1939 Dickinson-Belskie Birth Series Sculptures and the Unexpected Origins of Modern Antiabortion Imagery -- 5. Creating a Public for Visualized Pregnancies: The Swedish Version of the American Sex Hygiene Film Mom and Dad -- 6. The Drama of the Fetoplacental Unit: Reimagining the Public Fetus of Lennart Nilsson -- 7. The Public Fetus in Franco's Spain: Women, Doctors, and Feminists in the Circulation of Pregnancy Images -- 8. Visual Strategies of Antiabortion Activism and Their Feminist Critique: The Public Fetus in the United States -- 9. Public Menstruation: Visualizing Periods in Art, Activism, and Advertising -- 10. From "Anatomical Specimen" to "Almost Child": Pictures of Dead Fetuses in France -- 11. Reproducing Bodies in the Medical Museum: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Fetus on Display -- 12. The Public Fetus: A Traveling Concept -- Selected Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996580168303316 |
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Rethinking the Public Fetus : Historical Perspectives on the Visual Culture of Pregnancy / / ed. by Solveig Jülich, Elisabet Björklund |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Woodbridge, Suffolk : , : Boydell and Brewer, , [2024] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (288 p.) : 75 colour illus |
Disciplina | 618.2 |
Collana | Rochester Studies in Medical History |
Soggetto topico | MEDICAL / History |
Soggetto non controllato |
Lennart Nilsson
Peter the Great abortion catholicism medical education menstrual art miscarriage nationalism pregnancy public menstruation reproductive politics sex education sex hygiene films stillbirth |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Rethinking the Public Fetus: An Introduction -- 1. The Monsters of Peter and Wolff: Anatomical Preparations and Embryology in Eighteenth-Century St. Petersburg -- 2. "What Does the Eye Have to Do with Obstetrics?" The Fetus between Sight and Touch in Eighteenth-Century Italy -- 3. Paper Pregnancies: Visualizing the Maternal Body, 1870-1900 -- 4. Biological Bodies, Unfettered Imaginations: The 1939 Dickinson-Belskie Birth Series Sculptures and the Unexpected Origins of Modern Antiabortion Imagery -- 5. Creating a Public for Visualized Pregnancies: The Swedish Version of the American Sex Hygiene Film Mom and Dad -- 6. The Drama of the Fetoplacental Unit: Reimagining the Public Fetus of Lennart Nilsson -- 7. The Public Fetus in Franco's Spain: Women, Doctors, and Feminists in the Circulation of Pregnancy Images -- 8. Visual Strategies of Antiabortion Activism and Their Feminist Critique: The Public Fetus in the United States -- 9. Public Menstruation: Visualizing Periods in Art, Activism, and Advertising -- 10. From "Anatomical Specimen" to "Almost Child": Pictures of Dead Fetuses in France -- 11. Reproducing Bodies in the Medical Museum: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Fetus on Display -- 12. The Public Fetus: A Traveling Concept -- Selected Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910765510903321 |
Woodbridge, Suffolk : , : Boydell and Brewer, , [2024] | ||
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