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This book examines a range of critical concepts that are central to
a shift in the social sciences toward "pragmatic inquiry,"
reflecting a twenty-first century concern with particular problems
and themes rather than grand theory. Taking a transnational and
transdisciplinary approach, the collection demonstrates a shared
commitment to using analytical concepts for empirical exploration
and a general orientation to research that favors an attention to
objects, techniques, and practices. The chapters draw from
broad-based and far-reaching social theory in order to analyze new,
specific challenges, from grasping the everyday workings of
markets, courtrooms, and clinics, to inscribing the transformations
of practice within research disciplines themselves. Each
contributor takes a key concept and then explores its genealogies
and its circulations across scholarly communities, as well as its
proven payoffs for the social sciences and, often, critical
reflections on its present and future uses. This carefully crafted
volume will significantly expand and improve the analytical
repertoires or toolkits available to social scientists, including
scholars in sociology or anthropology and those working in science
and technology studies, public health, and related fields.
This book examines a range of critical concepts that are central to
a shift in the social sciences toward "pragmatic inquiry,"
reflecting a twenty-first century concern with particular problems
and themes rather than grand theory. Taking a transnational and
transdisciplinary approach, the collection demonstrates a shared
commitment to using analytical concepts for empirical exploration
and a general orientation to research that favors an attention to
objects, techniques, and practices. The chapters draw from
broad-based and far-reaching social theory in order to analyze new,
specific challenges, from grasping the everyday workings of
markets, courtrooms, and clinics, to inscribing the transformations
of practice within research disciplines themselves. Each
contributor takes a key concept and then explores its genealogies
and its circulations across scholarly communities, as well as its
proven payoffs for the social sciences and, often, critical
reflections on its present and future uses. This carefully crafted
volume will significantly expand and improve the analytical
repertoires or toolkits available to social scientists, including
scholars in sociology or anthropology and those working in science
and technology studies, public health, and related fields.
This open access book explores how young people engage with
chemical substances in their everyday lives. It builds upon and
supplements a large body of literature on young people's use of
drugs and alcohol to highlight the subjectivities and socialities
that chemical use enables across diverse socio-cultural settings,
illustrating how young people seek to avoid harm, while harnessing
the beneficial effects of chemical use. The book is based on
multi-sited anthropological research in Southeast Asia, Europe and
the US, and presents insights from collaborative and contrasting
analysis. Hardon brings new perspectives to debates across drug
policy studies, pharmaceutical cultures and regulation, science and
technology studies, and youth and precarity in post-industrial
societies.
This open access book explores how young people engage with
chemical substances in their everyday lives. It builds upon and
supplements a large body of literature on young people's use of
drugs and alcohol to highlight the subjectivities and socialities
that chemical use enables across diverse socio-cultural settings,
illustrating how young people seek to avoid harm, while harnessing
the beneficial effects of chemical use. The book is based on
multi-sited anthropological research in Southeast Asia, Europe and
the US, and presents insights from collaborative and contrasting
analysis. Hardon brings new perspectives to debates across drug
policy studies, pharmaceutical cultures and regulation, science and
technology studies, and youth and precarity in post-industrial
societies.
The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology provides a
contemporary overview of the key themes in medical anthropology. In
this exciting departure from conventional handbooks, compendia and
encyclopedias, the three editors have written the core chapters of
the volume, and in so doing, invite the reader to reflect on the
ethnographic richness and theoretical contributions of research on
the clinic and the field, bioscience and medical research,
infectious and non-communicable diseases, biomedicine,
complementary and alternative modalities, structural violence and
vulnerability, gender and ageing, reproduction and sexuality. As a
way of illustrating the themes, a rich variety of case studies are
included, presented by over 60 authors from around the world,
reflecting the diverse cultural contexts in which people experience
health, illness, and healing. Each chapter and its case studies are
introduced by a photograph, reflecting medical and visual
anthropological responses to inequality and vulnerability. An
indispensible reference in this fastest growing area of
anthropological study, The Routledge Handbook of Medical
Anthropology is a unique and innovative contribution to the field.
The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology provides a
contemporary overview of the key themes in medical anthropology. In
this exciting departure from conventional handbooks, compendia and
encyclopedias, the three editors have written the core chapters of
the volume, and in so doing, invite the reader to reflect on the
ethnographic richness and theoretical contributions of research on
the clinic and the field, bioscience and medical research,
infectious and non-communicable diseases, biomedicine,
complementary and alternative modalities, structural violence and
vulnerability, gender and ageing, reproduction and sexuality. As a
way of illustrating the themes, a rich variety of case studies are
included, presented by over 60 authors from around the world,
reflecting the diverse cultural contexts in which people experience
health, illness, and healing. Each chapter and its case studies are
introduced by a photograph, reflecting medical and visual
anthropological responses to inequality and vulnerability. An
indispensible reference in this fastest growing area of
anthropological study, The Routledge Handbook of Medical
Anthropology is a unique and innovative contribution to the field.
It was in 2000 that Nguyen, the author of the book, first met Pham
Thi Hue, an HIV-infected mother who later became an Asian heroine.
A long talk with Hue had made Nguyen a deep impression on the lives
of HIV-infected women. After that, she found more chances to work
with HIV-positive people. She also found out that women have become
more vulnerable to HIV infection, far from what she has seen from
the statistics in Vietnam that drugs are the main source of HIV
transmission and men are the major victims. As a mother, she was
deeply moved by the fate of many HIV-infected women and more than
that, the short life of many children to whom HIV was transmitted
by their mothers. All her efforts led her to this book, which
presents the situation of HIV transmission from mothers to children
in Vietnam, including the effect of health care system, culture
with traditional norms and values, and personal difficulties of
HIV-infected women. Medical intervention alone is insufficient to
assist women in the comprehensive way accessing PMTCT services,
given their complex needs in a society in which HIV is highly
stigmatized and considered a "social evil."
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Feminist Technology (Paperback)
Linda Layne, Sharra Vostral, Kate Boyer; Contributions by Jennifer Aengst, Maia Boswell-Penc, …
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R672
Discovery Miles 6 720
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Is there such a thing as a "feminist technology"? If so, what makes
a technology feminist? Is it in the design process, in the thing
itself, in the way it is marketed, or in the way it is used by
women (or by men)? In this collection, feminist scholars trained in
diverse fields consider these questions by examining a range of
products, tools, and technologies that were specifically designed
for and marketed to women. Evaluating the claims that such products
are liberating for women, the contributors focus on case studies of
menstrual-suppressing birth control pills, home pregnancy tests,
tampons, breast pumps, Norplant, anti-fertility vaccines, and
microbicides. In examining these various products, this volume
explores ways of actively intervening to develop better tools for
designing, promoting, and evaluating feminist technologies.
Recognizing the different needs and desires of women and
acknowledging the multiplicity of feminist approaches, "Feminist
Technology" offers a sustained debate on existing and emergent
technologies that share the goal of improving women's lives.
Contributors are Jennifer Aengst, Maia Boswell-Penc, Kate Boyer,
Frances Bronet, Shirley Gorenstein, Anita Hardon, Deborah G.
Johnson, Linda L. Layne, Deana McDonagh, and Sharra L. Vostral.
The focus of this book is medicines (swallowed, injected, rubbed on), as understood by anthropologists concerned solely with their social uses. The text begins with examples of a mother medicating a child in various cultural contexts and ends with a broad review of the complex elements that determine the production and use of medicines. Since 1993, Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology has offered researchers and instructors monographs and edited collections of leading scholarship in one of the most lively and popular subfields of cultural and social anthropology. Beginning in 2002, the CSMA series presents theme booksworks that synthesize emerging scholarship from relatively new subfields or that reinterpret the literature of older ones. Designed as course material for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and for professionals in related areas (physicians, nurses, public health workers, and medical sociologists), these theme books will demonstrate how work in medical anthropology is carried out and convey the importance of a given topic for a wide variety of readers. About 160 pages in length, the theme books are not simply staid reviews of the literature. They are, instead, new ways of conceptualizing topics in medical anthropology that take advantage of current research and the growing edges of the field.
This policy-relevant study grew out of an evaluation conducted by
its authors - all scholars at the London School of Hygiene &
Tropical Medicine and the Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam - of
the World Health Organization's Action Programme on Essential
Drugs. Their review, involving 13 country studies and WHO's five
regional offices, looks at how the idea of a rational drug policy
in developing countries came about, evaluates the achievements in
specific countries, and discusses some of the issues that remain to
be resolved - particularly issues around AIDs, contraception and
cost recovery. It should prove useful to policy makers and
academics, teachers and students, managers and professionals, as
well as international agencies in the health field.
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