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Stroke Book

The Diary of a Blindspot

Jonathan Alexander

An archive of personal trauma that addresses how a culture still toxic to queer people can reshape a bodyIn the summer of 2019, Jonathan Alexander had a minor stroke, what his doctors called an “eye...

ISBN: 9781531507305

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The Intruder

Jean-Luc Nancy

Complete in English for the first time, a major philosopher’s most personal work and the source of an acclaimed film.

ISBN: 9781531506186

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Allergic Intimacies

Food, Disability, Desire, and Risk

Michael Gill

The first book to explore food allergies in the United States from the perspective of disability and raceAre food allergies disabilities? What structures and systems ensure the survival of some with...

ISBN: 9781531501167

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Medicine at the Margins

EMS Workers in Urban America

Christopher Prener

Presents a unique view of social problems and conflicts over urban space from the cab of an ambulance.While we imagine ambulances as a site for critical care, the reality is far more complicated. Social...

ISBN: 9781531501082

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Prescriptions for Virtuosity

The Postcolonial Struggle of Chinese Medicine

Eric I. Karchmer

Prescriptions for Virtuosity documents how Chinese medicine has been transformed by the postcolonial encounter with biomedicine. It shows how doctors of Chinese medicine have responded to their postcolonial predicament through hybrid innovation, developing new forms of virtuosity to keep their clinical practice relevant in contemporary Chinese society.

ISBN: 9780823299836

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Imagistic Care

Growing Old in a Precarious World

Edited by Cheryl Mattingly and Lone Grøn

Afterword by Robert Desjarlais

Contributor(s): Rasmus Dyring, Harmandeep Kaur Gill, Lone Grøn, Maria Louw, Cheryl Mattingly, Lotte Meinert, Maria Speyer, Helle Sofie Wentzer and Susan Reynolds Whyte

Imagistic Care explores ethnographically how images function in our concepts, our writing, our fieldwork, and our lives. With contributions from anthropologists, philosophers and an artist, the volume...

ISBN: 9780823299638

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Crossing Back

Books, Family, and Memory without Pain

Marianna De Marco Torgovnick

From the award-winning author of Crossing Ocean Parkway, a personal memoir about adjusting to loss through books, meditation, and the process of memory itselfMarianna De Marco Torgovnick experienced...

ISBN: 9780823297788

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Called Back

My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life

Mary Cappello

Foreword Book of the Year Award Independent Publishers Award (IPPY) Lambda Literary Award Finalist Publishing Triangle Award Finalist GAMMA Award, Best Feature from The Magazine Association of the Southwest...

ISBN: 9780823294046

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Mixing Medicines

Ecologies of Care in Buddhist Siberia

Tatiana Chudakova

Mixing Medicines is an ethnography of Russian medicine’s attempts to recuperate indigenous therapeutic traditions associated with the state's ethnic and religious minorities. Based in Buryatia, a traditionally Buddhist region in southeastern Siberia, the book traces the uneven terrains of encounter between indigenous healing, the state, and transnational medical flows.

ISBN: 9780823294305

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Perspectives in a Pandemic

Kevin M. Cahill

Perspectives in a Pandemic is a series of enlightening essays written by Kevin M. Cahill, M.D., providing a unique insight into the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Cahill draws on his extensive...

ISBN: 9780823294985

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Labyrinths

Kevin M. Cahill

Labyrinths explores the origins of thirteen books I have written in the past few decades, texts that have helped to define the emerging parameters of relief operations that inevitably follow armed conflicts...

ISBN: 9780823293650

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Textures of the Ordinary

Doing Anthropology after Wittgenstein

Veena Das

Textures of the Ordinary shows how life is marked not only by catastrophic events but also by the soft knife of economic deprivation and the repetitive corrosions and routine violence within everyday life itself. As an alternative to normative ethics, this book develops ordinary ethics as attentiveness to the other and as the ability of small acts of care to stand up to horrific violence.

ISBN: 9780823287697

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Pathological Realities

Essays on Disease, Experiments, and History

Mirko Grmek

Translated and Edited by Pierre-Olivier Méthot

A collection of essays by Mirko D. Grmek, providing a portrait of his career as a historian of science and an engaged intellectual figure. Uniting some important strands of his published work, it covers deep epistemological changes in disease concepts and major advances in the life sciences and their historiography.

ISBN: 9780823280353

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New York After 9/11

Edited by Susan Opotow and Zachary Baron Shemtob

Contributor(s): Michael Arad, Michael Crane, Brian Davis, Ariel Durosky, Kimberly Flynn, Norman Groner, Lait Helpman, Anne Hilburn, Daniel Libeskind, Charles Jennings, Ari Lowell, Roberto Lucchini, Guillermina Mejia, Hirofumi Minami, Jacqueline Moline, Yuval Neria, Cristina Onea, Susan Opotow, David Prezant, Karyna Pryiomka, Joan Reibman, Diala Shamas, Zachary Baron Shemtob, Micki Siegel de Hernández, Patrick Sweeney and Xi Zhu

This book examines the aftermath of 9/11 in New York City and the various ways that this event profoundly reshaped multiple spheres of City life.

ISBN: 9780823281275

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Plasticity and Pathology

On the Formation of the Neural Subject

David Bates and Nima Bassiri

This collection of essays explores the historical and theoretical dimensions of the contemporary neural subject. With a multidisciplinary perspective, the volume focuses attention on the important, but problematic notion of plasticity as a way of rethinking the relationship between human experience and both pathological and normal states of the nervous system.

ISBN: 9780823266142

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Cytomegalovirus

A Hospitalization Diary

Hervé Guibert

Translated by Clara Orban

Afterword by Todd Meyers

Cytomegalovirus is a lucid and spare autobiographical narrative by Hervé Guibert (1955-1991) of the everyday moments of his hospitalization due to complications of AIDS. In one of his last works, the acclaimed writer presents his struggle with the disease in terms that are unsentimental and deeply human.

ISBN: 9780823268573

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Affliction

Health, Disease, Poverty

Veena Das

Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. It traces the unfolding of illness within families, local communities, neighborhood markets and in occult worlds. Privileging the experience of people living in these neighborhoods it asks how can global health be made to take this experience into account rather than escape from it?

ISBN: 9780823261819

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Wording the World

Veena Das and Scenes of Inheritance

Roma Chatterji

The essays in this book examine how important themes in Veena Das’s work have been critically assimilated in the work of a younger generation. Looking at the relation between the event and the everyday, the essays ask how we might trace the picture of thinking in anthropology through ethnography and through artistic, literary and philosophical practice.

ISBN: 9780823261864

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The Helmholtz Curves

Tracing Lost Time

Henning Schmidgen

Translated by Nils F. Schott

In 1850, Hermann von Helmholtz conducted path breaking experiments on the propagation speed of the nervous impulse. This book reconstructs the cultural history of these experiments by focusing on Helmholtz’s use of the “graphic method” and the subsequent use of his term “lost time” by Marcel Proust.

ISBN: 9780823261956

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Disasters in an Era of Diminishing Resources

Edited by Kevin M. Cahill

Natural and human-made disasters are increasing around the world. Hurricanes, typhoons, earthquakes, tsunamis, droughts, and resultant famine, floods, and armed conflicts are constant reminders of the...

ISBN: 9780823260713

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History and Hope

The International Humanitarian Reader

Edited by Kevin M. Cahill, M.D. and Kevin M. Cahill

History and Hope: The International Humanitarian Reader provides a better understanding—both within and outside academia—of the multifaceted demands posed by humanitarian assistance programs. The...

ISBN: 9780823251971

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History and Hope

The International Humanitarian Reader

Edited by Kevin M. Cahill, M.D.

ISBN: 9780823251964

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Figures of Medicine

Blood, Face Transplants, Parasites

François Delaporte

Translated by Nils F. Schott

In this provocative collection of essays, François Delaporte shows how every epistemological concern demands its own mode of engagement. Through six seemingly disparate cases, Figures of Medicine reanimates the methodological and intellectual stakes at the core of the history of science and medicine.

ISBN: 9780823244454

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Live Long and Prosper

How Black Megachurches Address HIV/AIDS and Poverty in the Age of Prosperity Theology

Sandra L. Barnes

Are Black megachurches more focused on prosperity than people? Live Long and Prosper examines some of their motivations and programs in light of Prosperity or “Health and Wealth” Theology. It considers how Black megachurches address two pressing social problems among Blacks – HIV/AIDS (a “health” issue) and poverty (a “wealth” issue) – as well as influential church and clergy dynamics.

ISBN: 9780823249572

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Disasters in an Era of Diminishing Resources

Edited by Kevin M. Cahill, M.D. and Kevin M. Cahill

ISBN: 9780823250189

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Stroke Book

The Intruder

Allergic Intimacies

Medicine at the Margins

Prescriptions for Virtuosity

Imagistic Care

Crossing Back

Called Back

Mixing Medicines

Perspectives in a Pandemic

Labyrinths

Textures of the Ordinary

Pathological Realities

New York After 9/11

Plasticity and Pathology

Cytomegalovirus

Affliction

Wording the World

The Helmholtz Curves

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History and Hope

History and Hope

Figures of Medicine

Live Long and Prosper

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