"Boccara analyzes the Covid-19 pandemic by focusing on the large group unconscious defenses that were mobilized against the anxieties that the pandemic created. He, in turn, argues that humanity will only be able to successfully manage future systemic crises if public policies and country dialogue systematically take into account the underlying ......
"Losing Sleep analyzes the messages parents receive about infant sleep, including how race, class, and gender shape our understanding of personal responsibility, risk, and safety"--
A Dignified Ending challenges the idea that prolonging life by every means possible is the only reasonable response to a dire diagnosis or to intractable suffering. It uses true accounts to illustrate how people have choreographed their deaths, and it recommends that death with dignity laws include dementias and other neurodegenerative disorders.
"This book centers on story as a means of making disability available for noticing. The framework of signs of disability forwarded in this book is drawn from the author's lived experience of disability and deafness as well as rhetoric, feminist materialist scholarship, and critical disability studies"--
Cut It Out examines the exponential increase in the United States of the most technological form of birth that exists: the cesarean section. While c-section births pose a higher risk of maternal death and medical complications, can have negative future reproductive consequences for the mother, increase the recovery time for mothers after birth, ......
The Politics of Risk, Inequality, and Heart Disease
Examining the routine activities of epidemiology - grant applications, data collection, representations of research findings, and post-publication discussions of the interpretations and implications of study results, this book shows how social differences of race, social class, and gender are upheld by the scientific community.
Gender, Race, and Heredity after the Human Genome Project
Situates contemporary genomics within a history of genetics research yet is attentive to the new ways in which knowledge claims about heredity, race, and gender emerge and are articulated
To help families manage an intense medical-related event, this title proposes that a family-oriented life and living perspective should be combined with a family intervention philosophy. This book explores issues relevant to treatment, family adaptation, quality of life, and family survival. It is useful for health and allied health professionals.
Offers a systematic overview of bio-politics, exploring its relevance in contemporary theoretical debates and providing a much needed primer on the topic
