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

    de 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 ... Leer más

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    Critical Perspectives on Theory and Policy

    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 ... Leer más

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  • An Introduction to Gerontology

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    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 ... Leer más

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  • Inclusion

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    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 ... Leer más

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  • Designing and Conducting Gender, Sex, and Health Research

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

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  • The Alzheimer Conundrum

    Entanglements of Dementia and Aging

    de Margaret Lock ...
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  • An Anthropology of Biomedicine

    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 ... Leer más

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

    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. ... Leer más

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  • A Companion to Bioethics

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

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  • The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics

    Series series Oxford Textbook
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