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Africa has emerged as a prime arena of global health interventions
that focus on particular diseases and health emergencies. These are
framed increasingly in terms of international concerns about
security, human rights, and humanitarian crisis. This presents a
stark contrast to the 1960s and '70s, when many newly independent
African governments pursued the vision of public health "for all,"
of comprehensive health care services directed by the state with
support from foreign donors. These initiatives often failed,
undermined by international politics, structural adjustment, and
neoliberal policies, and by African states themselves. Yet their
traces remain in contemporary expectations of and yearnings for a
more robust public health.
This volume explores how medical professionals and patients,
government officials, and ordinary citizens approach questions of
public health as they navigate contemporary landscapes of NGOs and
transnational projects, faltering state services, and expanding
privatization. Its contributors analyze the relations between the
public and the private providers of public health, from the state
to new global biopolitical formations of political institutions,
markets, human populations, and health. Tensions and ambiguities
animate these complex relationships, suggesting that the question
of what public health actually is in Africa cannot be taken for
granted. Offering historical and ethnographic analyses, the volume
develops an anthropology of public health in Africa.
Contributors: P. Wenzel Geissler; Murray Last; Rebecca Marsland;
Lotte Meinert; Benson A. Mulemi; Ruth J. Prince; and Noemi
Tousignant.
As seen in military documents, medical journals, novels, films,
television shows, and memoirs, soldiers' invisible wounds are not
innate cracks in individual psyches that break under the stress of
war. Instead, the generation of weary warriors is caught up in
wider social and political networks and institutions-families,
activist groups, government bureaucracies, welfare state
programs-mediated through a military hierarchy, psychiatry rooted
in mind-body sciences, and various cultural constructs of
masculinity. This book offers a history of military psychiatry from
the American Civil War to the latest Afghanistan conflict. The
authors trace the effects of power and knowledge in relation to the
emotional and psychological trauma that shapes soldiers' bodies,
minds, and souls, developing an extensive account of the emergence,
diagnosis, and treatment of soldiers' invisible wounds.
The book explores comparatively the role of non-profit
organizations in conditions of social and economic change. The
focus of the study is an investigation of the proposition that
non-profit organizations provide sites and processes for enhancing
active citizenship, invigorating the public sphere and extending
political participation. The study explores the economic
constraints on voluntary associations and argues that they can
function as 'schools of democracy'. This book is the first national
study of the third-sector in Australia, but its conclusions have a
general relevance to deregulated welfare societies in Europe and
North America.
The book explores comparatively the role of non-profit
organizations in conditions of social and economic change. The
focus of the study is an investigation of the proposition that
non-profit organizations provide sites and processes for enhancing
active citizenship, invigorating the public sphere and extending
political participation. The study explores the economic
constraints on voluntary associations and argues that they can
function as 'schools of democracy'. This book is the first national
study of the third-sector in Australia, but its conclusions have a
general relevance to deregulated welfare societies in Europe and
North America.
As seen in military documents, medical journals, novels, films,
television shows, and memoirs, soldiers' invisible wounds are not
innate cracks in individual psyches that break under the stress of
war. Instead, the generation of weary warriors is caught up in
wider social and political networks and institutions-families,
activist groups, government bureaucracies, welfare state
programs-mediated through a military hierarchy, psychiatry rooted
in mind-body sciences, and various cultural constructs of
masculinity. This book offers a history of military psychiatry from
the American Civil War to the latest Afghanistan conflict. The
authors trace the effects of power and knowledge in relation to the
emotional and psychological trauma that shapes soldiers' bodies,
minds, and souls, developing an extensive account of the emergence,
diagnosis, and treatment of soldiers' invisible wounds.
This edited collection examines the effects that macrosystems have
on the figuration of our everyday-of microdystopias-and argues that
microdystopic narratives are part of a genre that has emerged in
contract to classic dystopic manifestations of world-shattering
events. From different methodological and theoretical positions in
fieldworks ranging from literary works and young adult series to
concrete places and games, the contributors in Microdystopias:
Aesthetics and Ideologies in a Broken Moment sound the depths of an
existential sense of shrinking horizons - spatially, temporally,
emotionally, and politically. The everyday encroachment on our
sense of spatial orientation that gradually and discreetly shrinks
the horizons of possibilities is demonstrated by examining what the
form of the microdystopic look like when they are aesthetically
configured. Contributors analyze the aesthetics that play a
particularly central and complex role in mediating, as well as
disrupting, the parameters of dystopian emergences and emergencies,
reflecting an increasingly uneasy relationship between the
fictional, the cautionary, and the real. Scholars of media studies,
sociology, and philosophy will find this book of particular
interest.
What if the Earth's natural disasters were caused by something-
somewhere- bigger than we could ever imagine? What if these
tragedies were actually triggered by an unseen parallel world, with
creatures whose tears represent our floods, their anger our
earthquakes, their blood lava from a volcano? The actions and
emotions of these creatures have dire consequences for those on
Earth, as Robbie is about to discover, when the Boxing Day Tsunami
hits his island home. When Robbie's mother dies in the tsunami in
Phuket, Thailand, the Australian-born teenager begins a search,
believing someone or something is responsible for her death. It
wasn't just an accident. Through an unrelenting ache and his
steadfast determination, Robbie desperately tries to find out who-
or what- is responsible. Fuelled by grief and alcohol, a downward
spiral is set in motion, leading Robbie's girlfriend Bo to believe
he is hallucinating. However when they come face to face with a
giant creature, Robbie and Bo must face the truth- and The Bigger
World- together.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
Myth Making Man is a study of the transmission of a set of
scientific paradigms to the culture at large. These science-based
cultural myths originate in the provisional and hypothetical
language of research scientists, but with popularization, the story
and images in the discourse come to assume progressively more
prominence. Michael Prince focusses on three paradigms related to
human evolution, paleoanthropology, eugenics-genetics, and
Darwinian / Post-Darwinian evolution. The short fiction of Philip
K. Dick is presented as an exemplar of this paradigm set as it was
extant in early 1950s science fiction. The remainder of the book
treats several Dick novels, the Canopus in Argos five book series
by Doris Lessing, as well as Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis series.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
In the post-World War II era, authors of the beat generation
produced some of the most enduring literature of the day. More than
six decades since, work of the Beat Poets conjures images of
unconventionality, defiance, and a changing consciousness that
permeated the 1950s and 60s. In recent years, the key texts of Beat
authors such as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jack
Kerouac have been appropriated for a new generation in
feature-length films, graphic novels, and other media. In Adapting
the Beat Poets: Burroughs, Ginsberg, and Kerouc on Screen, Michael
J. Prince examines how works by these authors have been translated
to film. Looking primarily at three key works-Burroughs' Naked
Lunch, Ginsberg's Howl, and Kerouac's On the Road-Prince considers
how Beat literature has been significantly altered by the
unintended intrusion of irony or other inflections. Prince also
explores how these screen adaptations offer evidence of a growing
cultural thirst for authenticity, even as mediated in postmodern
works. Additional works discussed in this volume include The
Subterraneans, Towers Open Fire, The Junky's Christmas, and Big
Sur. By examining the screen versions of the Beat triumvirate's
creations, this volume questions the ways in which their original
works serve as artistic anchors and whether these films honor the
authentic intent of the authors. Adapting the Beat Poets is a
valuable resource for anyone studying the beat generation,
including scholars of literature, film, and American history.
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