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  • The Politics of Life Itself

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

    by Nikolas Rose ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    $49.31 CAD

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  • Science of Desire

    The Gay Gene and the Biology of Behavior

    by Dean Hamer ...
    A compelling behind-the-scenes look at cutting-edge scientific inquiry, as well as a brilliant examination of the ramifications of genetic research, The Science of Desire is a lasting resource in the increasingly significant debate over the role that genetics plays in our lives.In July 1993, a scientific event made front-page news: the discovery that genetics plays a significant role in ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Women's Health in Canada

    Critical Perspectives on Theory and Policy

    Edited by Olena Hankivsky, Marina Morrow, Colleen Varcoe ...
    In recent years, healthcare professionals have recognized the distinctly different healthcare needs and concerns of men and women. Women's health, in particular, has come into its own in the last two decades. In Canada, however, there has been little available in the way of a general text on women's health. This volume works toward filling that gap by providing a resource for teaching and ... Read more

    $31.67 CAD

  • An Introduction to Gerontology

    Edited by Ian Stuart-Hamilton ...
    With the world's population getting increasingly older, there has never been a more pressing need for the study of old age and ageing. An Introduction to Gerontology provides a wide-ranging introduction to this important topic. By assuming no prior expert knowledge and avoiding jargon, this book will guide students through all the main subjects in gerontology, covering both traditional areas, such ... Read more

    $53.27 CAD

  • Inclusion

    The Politics of Difference in Medical Research

    by Steven Epstein ...
    With Inclusion, Steven Epstein argues that strategies to achieve diversity in medical research mask deeper problems, ones that might require a different approach and different solutions.Formal concern with this issue, Epstein shows, is a fairly recent phenomenon. Until the mid-1980s, scientists often studied groups of white, middle-aged men—and assumed that conclusions drawn from studying them ... Read more

    $23.75 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Designing and Conducting Gender, Sex, and Health Research

    Edited by John Oliffe, Lorraine J. Greaves ...
    This book is the first textbook dedicated to critically examining gender and sex in study designs, methods, and analysis in health research. In order to produce ethical, accurate, and effective research findings it is vital to integrate both sex (biological characteristics) and gender (socially constructed factors) into any health study. This book draws attention to some of the methodological ... Read more

    $97.91 CAD

  • The Alzheimer Conundrum

    Entanglements of Dementia and Aging

    by Margaret Lock ...
    Because of rapidly aging populations, the number of people worldwide experiencing dementia is increasing and the projections are grim. Despite hundreds of millions of dollars invested in medical research, no effective treatment has been discovered for Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia. The Alzheimer Conundrum exposes the predicaments embedded in current efforts to slow down or ... Read more

    $50.30 CAD

  • An Anthropology of Biomedicine

    by 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 ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

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

    by 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. ... Read more

    $20.31 CAD

  • A Companion to Bioethics

    Edited by Helga Kuhse, Peter Singer ...
    Series series Wiley Companions to Philosophy
    This second edition of A Companion to Bioethics, fully revised and updated to reflect the current issues and developments in the field, covers all the material that the reader needs to thoroughly grasp the ideas and debates involved in bioethics.Thematically organized around an unparalleled range of issues, including discussion of the moral status of embryos and fetuses, new genetics, life and ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • Contesting Illness

    Process and Practices

    Edited by 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 ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Gene Worship

    Moving Beyond the Nature/ Nurture Debate Over Genes, Brain and Gender

    by Gisela Kaplan, Lesley J. Rogers ...
    "A wonderful antidote to the gene hysteria that is now so dominant! . . . What is most exciting about this book is the authors' ability to move seamlessly from research on how the brain works, to sociology, history, and philosophy. And that, I believe, is exactly how we need to understand gender--neither nature nor nurture, but a complex interplay." - Dr. Lynda Birke, author of Feminism and the ... Read more

    $23.75 CAD