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  • Is Breast Best?

    Taking on the Breastfeeding Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhood

    de Joan B. Wolf ...
    Séries Livros: 4 - Biopolitics
    Why has breastfeeding re-asserted itself over the last twenty years, and why are the government, the scientific and medical communities, and so many mothers so invested in the idea? In Is Breast Best? Joan B. Wolf challenges the widespread belief that breastfeeding is medically superior to bottle-feeding. Despite the fact that breastfeeding has become the ultimate expression of maternal dedication ... Leia mais

    R$ 142,89

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  • Our Babies, Ourselves

    How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent

    de Meredith Small ...
    A thought-provoking combination of practical parenting information and scientific analysis, Our Babies, Ourselves is the first book to explore why we raise our children the way we do--and to suggest that we reconsider our culture's traditional views on parenting.New parents are faced with innumerable decisions to make regarding the best way to care for their baby, and, naturally, they often turn ... Leia mais

    R$ 55,39

  • Lactivism

    How Feminists and Fundamentalists, Hippies and Yuppies, and Physicians and Politicians Made Breastfeeding Big Business and Bad Policy

    de Courtney Jung ...
    Social scientist and mother Courtney Jung explores the ever-expanding world of breastfeeding advocacy, shining a new light on the diverse communities who compose it, the dubious science behind it, and the pernicious public policies to which it has given riseIs breast really best? Breastfeeding is widely assumed to be the healthiest choice, yet growing evidence suggests that its benefits have been ... Leia mais

    R$ 76,59

  • Push Back

    Guilt in the Age of Natural Parenting

    de Amy Tuteur, M.D. ...
    A Harvard-trained obstetrician-gynecologist, prominent blogger, and author of the classic How Your Baby Is Born delivers a timely, important, and sure to be headline-making expose that shines a light on the natural parenting movement and the multimillion-dollar industry behind it.The natural parenting movement praises the virtues of birth without medical interference, staunchly advocates ... Leia mais

    R$ 73,49

  • In the Kingdom of the Sick

    A Social History of Chronic Illness in America

    de Laurie Edwards ...
    Thirty years ago, Susan Sontag wrote, "Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and the kingdom of the sick ... Sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place." Now more than 133 million Americans live with chronic illness, accounting for nearly three-quarters of all health care dollars, and untold ... Leia mais

    R$ 58,49

  • The Politics of Life Itself

    Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century

    de Nikolas Rose ...
    Séries series In-Formation
    For centuries, medicine aimed to treat abnormalities. But today normality itself is open to medical modification. Equipped with a new molecular understanding of bodies and minds, and new techniques for manipulating basic life processes at the level of molecules, cells, and genes, medicine now seeks to manage human vital processes. The Politics of Life Itself offers a much-needed examination of ... Leia mais

    R$ 186,79

  • Facing Age

    Women Growing Older in Anti-Aging Culture

    de Laura Hurd Clarke ...
    Séries series Diversity and Aging
    The first book in the new series Diversity and Aging, Laura Hurd Clarke's Facing Age examines the relationship between aging and women in a culture obsessed with youthfulness. From weight gain, to wrinkles, to sagging skin, to gray hair, the book explores older women's complex and often contradictory feelings about their bodies and the physical realities of growing older. Although the women in the ... Leia mais

    R$ 165,59

  • Introduction to Bioethics, An: Fourth Edition - Revised and Updated

    de Thomas A. Shannon & Nicholas J. Kockler ...
    This book provides an introductory survey of various bioethical issues facing society from beginning of life issues to end of life issues, and several issues in between. ... Leia mais

    R$ 99,44

  • Contesting Illness

    Process and Practices

    Editado por Pamela Moss, Kathy Teghtsoonian ...
    The relationship between power and illness is the subject of limited discussion despite it being one of the most important issues in health-related policies and services. In an effort to correct this, Contesting Illness engages critically with processes through which the meanings and effects of illness shape and are shaped by specific sets of practices. Featuring original contributions by ... Leia mais

    R$ 187,69

  • An Anthropology of Biomedicine

    de Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Margaret M. Lock ...
    An Anthropology of Biomedicine is an exciting new introduction to biomedicine and its global implications. Focusing on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies bring about radical changes to societies at large, cultural anthropologist Margaret Lock and her co-author physician and medical anthropologist Vinh-Kim Nguyen develop and integrate the thesis that the human body in ... Leia mais

    R$ 350,00

  • A Companion to Medical Anthropology

    Editado por Merrill Singer, Pamela I. Erickson ...
    Séries series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
    A Companion to Medical Anthropology examines the current issues, controversies, and state of the field in medical anthropology today.Provides an expert view of the major topics and themes to concern the discipline since its founding in the 1960sWritten by leading international scholars in medical anthropologyCovers environmental health, global health, biotechnology, syndemics, nutrition, substance ... Leia mais

    R$ 245,30

  • The PKU Paradox

    A Short History of a Genetic Disease

    de Diane B. Paul, Jeffrey P. Brosco ...
    Séries series Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease
    Named one of the "Ten must-read science histories" by Science MagazineIn a lifetime of practice, most physicians will never encounter a single case of PKU. Yet every physician in the industrialized world learns about the disease in medical school and, since the early 1960s, the newborn heel stick test for PKU has been mandatory in many countries. Diane B. Paul and Jeffrey P. Brosco’s beautifully ... Leia mais

    R$ 138,19