Biomedical entanglements : conceptions of personhood in a Papua New Guinea society / / Franziska A. Herbst |
Autore | Herbst Franziska A. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (258 pages) : illustrations, tables |
Disciplina | 362.1 |
Collana | Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific |
Soggetto topico |
Public health - Social aspects
Social medicine - Papua New Guinea |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthropology
biomedical institutions biomedical services biomedical biomedicine diagnosis engaging ethnographic sites ethnographic study ethnography fieldwork giri people global health health care challenges health indigenous population indigenous populations medical anthropology medical conditions modern medicine papua new guinea personhood realistic rural health center rural health social meaning social science tribal cultures urban hospital villages |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Ethnography and the fieldwork setting -- Bunapas health center -- Technologies of disenchantment-medical pluralism through a series of lenses -- The web of care relationships -- Ingenious women-making biomedical reproductive health care meaningful. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792729103321 |
Herbst Franziska A.
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Biomedical entanglements : conceptions of personhood in a Papua New Guinea society / / Franziska A. Herbst |
Autore | Herbst Franziska A. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (258 pages) : illustrations, tables |
Disciplina | 362.1 |
Collana | Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific |
Soggetto topico |
Public health - Social aspects
Social medicine - Papua New Guinea |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthropology
biomedical institutions biomedical services biomedical biomedicine diagnosis engaging ethnographic sites ethnographic study ethnography fieldwork giri people global health health care challenges health indigenous population indigenous populations medical anthropology medical conditions modern medicine papua new guinea personhood realistic rural health center rural health social meaning social science tribal cultures urban hospital villages |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Ethnography and the fieldwork setting -- Bunapas health center -- Technologies of disenchantment-medical pluralism through a series of lenses -- The web of care relationships -- Ingenious women-making biomedical reproductive health care meaningful. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828740603321 |
Herbst Franziska A.
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The blood of strangers [[electronic resource] ] : stories from emergency medicine / / Frank Huyler |
Autore | Huyler Frank <1964-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (165 p.) |
Disciplina | 616.02/5 |
Soggetto topico |
Emergency medicine
Hospitals - Emergency services |
Soggetto non controllato |
accidents
anthology blood career collection of stories disease emergency medicine emergency rooms emotional er physicians fast paced firsthand accounts healthcare human struggles illness injury life and death literary nonfiction lyrical essays medical professionals medical world memoirs modern medicine neurosurgeons new mexico nonfiction stories patients and doctors retrospective trauma surgeons vignettes visceral |
ISBN |
0-585-46784-6
1-283-29193-2 9786613291936 0-520-95072-0 0-520-90003-0 1-59734-502-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- The Unknown Assailant -- Prelude -- Through The Dark, Softly -- Faith -- Black Bag -- A Good Scar -- The Engineer In The Desert -- The Invitation -- Sunday Morning -- The Short Arm Of Chromosome 4 -- Needle -- The Dead Lake -- The Prisoner -- Numbers And Voices -- A Difference Of Opinion -- The Bleeding Girl -- I ' M Driving -- Burn -- The Secret -- Speaking In Tongues -- Power -- Jaw -- The Virgin -- Sugar -- Liar -- The Bee Sting -- The House In The Wilderness -- Time |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780374603321 |
Huyler Frank <1964->
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1999 | ||
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The health care revolution [[electronic resource] ] : from medical monopoly to market competition / / Carl F. Ameringer |
Autore | Ameringer Carl F |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (271 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.1/0425 |
Collana | California/Milbank books on health and the public |
Soggetto topico |
Medical care - United States - Finance - History - 20th century
Health care reform - United States - History - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
1970s
america american economy antitrust agencies business economics doctors economic system economics federal government federal trade commission health and medicine health care professionals health care system health care justice department legal market based health care medical professionals medical revolution modern medicine nonfiction political social change united states congress united states us supreme court |
ISBN |
1-281-38554-9
9786611385545 0-520-93468-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The professional regime -- Precursors of change -- The triumph of market theory -- The Federal Trade Commission takes the lead -- The AMA case -- A question of jurisdiction -- Drawing the line between clinical and business practices -- The quest for antitrust relief -- The demonization of managed care. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782014403321 |
Ameringer Carl F
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Indigenous medicine among the Bedouin in the Middle East / / Aref Abu-Rabia |
Autore | Abu-Rabia Aref |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
Disciplina | 615.8/80899272 |
Soggetto topico |
Bedouins - Medicine
Traditional medicine - Arab countries |
Soggetto non controllato |
bedouin tribes
bedouin clients desert dweller disease education healers health approaches health practices illnesses incurable disease indigenous cultures indigenous medicine indigenous peoples islam medical beliefs medical care medical knowledge medicine middle east modern medicine nomadic arabs pastoral nomadic tribes rapid urbanization remedy semi nomadic tribes settled tribes traditional bedouin culture traditional bedouin medicine traditional medicine |
ISBN | 1-78238-690-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Indigenous Medicine among the Bedouin in the Middle East; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. Health and Health Services among the Bedouin in the Middle East; Chapter 2. The Treatment of Human Ailments; Chapter 3. General Treatments; Chapter 4. "Don't Touch My Body"; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797911103321 |
Abu-Rabia Aref
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Indigenous medicine among the Bedouin in the Middle East / / Aref Abu-Rabia |
Autore | Abu-Rabia Aref |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
Disciplina | 615.8/80899272 |
Soggetto topico |
Bedouins - Medicine
Traditional medicine - Arab countries |
Soggetto non controllato |
bedouin tribes
bedouin clients desert dweller disease education healers health approaches health practices illnesses incurable disease indigenous cultures indigenous medicine indigenous peoples islam medical beliefs medical care medical knowledge medicine middle east modern medicine nomadic arabs pastoral nomadic tribes rapid urbanization remedy semi nomadic tribes settled tribes traditional bedouin culture traditional bedouin medicine traditional medicine |
ISBN | 1-78238-690-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Indigenous Medicine among the Bedouin in the Middle East; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. Health and Health Services among the Bedouin in the Middle East; Chapter 2. The Treatment of Human Ailments; Chapter 3. General Treatments; Chapter 4. "Don't Touch My Body"; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820333703321 |
Abu-Rabia Aref
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Therapeutic Revolutions : Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century / / Flurin Condrau, Jeremy A. Greene, Elizabeth Siegel Watkins |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (328 pages) |
Disciplina | 303.483 |
Soggetto topico |
Pharmaceutical industry - Social aspects
Therapeutics - Social aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
biomedicine
consumer history history of medicine history of science medical anthropology modern medicine pharmaceutical industry prescription drugs therapeutic revolution twentieth century history |
ISBN | 0-226-39087-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Medicine Made Modern by Medicines -- 1. Futures and their Uses -- 2. Reconceiving the Pill -- 3. Magic Bullet in the Head? -- 4. Revolutionary Markets? -- 5. Recurring Revolutions? -- 6. Pharmaceutical Geographies -- 7. After McKeown -- 8. Chemotherapy in the Shadow of Antiretrovirals -- 9. Volatility, Speculation, and Therapeutic Revolutions in Nigerian Drug Markets -- 10. Therapeutic Evolution or Revolution? -- 11. A Therapeutic Revolution Revisited -- Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910151642403321 |
Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2016] | ||
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What is medicine? [[electronic resource] ] : Western and Eastern approaches to healing / / Paul U. Unschuld ; translated from the German by Karen Reimers |
Autore | Unschuld Paul U (Paul Ulrich), <1943-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif. ; ; London, : University of California Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
Disciplina | 610.1 |
Soggetto topico |
Medicine - Philosophy - History
Medicine, Oriental - Philosophy - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
ancient healing
china chinese medicine cognitive dynamics comparative history debate doctors and patients eastern medicine economics europe european medicine healing and medicine health and wellness health care policies health care professionals history of medicine human health medical theory modern medicine molecular biology nonfiction pathology physiology political shifts scientists traditional practices western adaptations western medicine |
ISBN | 0-520-94470-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Life = Body Plus X -- 2. Medicine, or Novelty Appeal -- 3. Why Laws of Nature? -- 4. Longing for Order -- 5. Ethics and Legality -- 6. Why Here? Why Now? -- 7. Thales' Trite Observation -- 8. Polis, Law, and Self-determination -- 9. The Individual and the Whole -- 10. Nonmedical Healing -- 11. Mawangdui: Early Healing in China -- 12. Humans Are Biologically Identical across Cultures. So Why Not Medicine? -- 13. The Yellow Thearch's Body Image -- 14. The Birth of Chinese Medicine -- 15. The Division of the Elite -- 16. A View to the Visible, and Opinions on the Invisible -- 17. State Concept and Body Image -- 18. Farewell to Demons and Spirits -- 19. New Pathogens, and Morality -- 20. Medicine without Pharmaceutics -- 21. Pharmaceutics without Medicine -- 22. Puzzling Parallels -- 23. The Beginning of Medicine in Greece -- 24. The End of Monarchy -- 25. Troublemakers and Ostracism -- 26. See Something You Don't See -- 27. Powers of Self-healing: Self-evident? -- 28. Confucians' Fear of Chaos -- 29. Medicine: Expression of the General State of Mind -- 30. Dynamic Ideas and Faded Model Images -- 31. The Hour of the Dissectors -- 32. Manifold Experiences of the World -- 33. Greek Medicine and Roman Incomprehension -- 34. Illness as Stasis -- 35. Head and Limbs -- 36. The Rediscovery of Wholeness -- 37. To Move the Body to a Statement -- 38. Galen of Pergamon: Collector in All Worlds -- 39. Europe's Ancient Pharmacology -- 40. The Wheel of Progress Turns No More -- 41. Constancy and Discontinuity of Structures -- 42. Arabian Interlude -- 43. The Tang Era: Cultural Diversity, Conceptual Vacuum -- 44. Changes in the Song Era -- 45. The Authority of Distant Antiquity -- 46. Zhang Ji's Belated Honors -- 47. Chinese Pharmacology |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790258003321 |
Unschuld Paul U (Paul Ulrich), <1943->
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