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"Presents a collection of international contributions that complement, as well as critique, dominant conceptualisations of health behaviour"--Provided by publisher. 1. From health behaviours to health practices: an introduction / Simon Cohn -- 2. Actors, patients and agency: a …
"Presents a collection of international contributions that complement, as well as critique, dominant conceptualisations of health behaviour"--Provided by publisher
"Presents a collection of international contributions that complement, as well as critique, dominant conceptualisations of health behaviour"--Provided by publisher
This is an ethnography of the Tabwa people & their categorie of illness, medicine, divination & healing. The text offers an understanding of an African approach to illnesses, symptons & personal features through to methods of diagnosis and cure.
Available online or as a five-volume print set, this is the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and international reference work on all aspects of the social scientific study of health and illness. The online version will be regularly updated with new research and theoretica…
Available online or as a five-volume print set, this is the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and international reference work on all aspects of the social scientific study of health and illness. The online version will be regularly updated with new research and theoretica…
"Featuring more than 700 entries across 20 sub-disciplines, this encyclopedia offers the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and international reference work on all aspects of the social scientific study of health and illness."--Encyclopedia home page, viewed July 24, 2015.
Lovers and livers: disease concepts in history
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Lovers and livers: disease concepts in history
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Lovers and livers: disease concepts in history
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Lovers and livers: disease concepts in history
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"In Lovers and Livers, Jacalyn Duffin introduces philosophical theories of disease and delves into the history of two distinct afflictions - one old, one new - that serve as examples to show how applying theory can uncover surprising aspects of the medical past and present. Writ…
Lovers and livers: disease concepts in history
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Lovers and livers: disease concepts in history
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Can a disease be an idea? A theory? Does disease exist without a patient to suffer from it? In Lovers and Livers, Jacalyn Duffin provides a lively overview of the ideas around disease. She introduces philosophical theories of disease and delves into the history of two distinct a…
"Known in early modern Europe by many names--the French Disease, the Bubas, and, eventually, syphilis--the Great Pox was a chronic disease that carried the stigma of sexuality and produced a slow and painful death. The main institution which treated it, the pox hospital, has com…
"Known in early modern Europe by many names--the French Disease, the Bubas, and, eventually, syphilis--the Great Pox was a chronic disease that carried the stigma of sexuality and produced a slow and painful death. The main institution which treated it, the pox hospital, has com…
From Body to Community is a fresh, well-written, and approachable social history of disease, gender, and social relations in early modern Toledo. Berco's sensitivity and empathy make his writing on the experience of undergoing treatment at a syphilis hospital the most vivid hist…