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Gregory Bateson
Steps to an Ecology of Mind

Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. This classic anthology of his major work includes a new For…

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Brenna McCaffrey
Pills and Protest

The story of the abortion pill and its role in ending Ireland's abortion ban - and what this means for the fight to free abortion globally

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Edmée Ballif
Reproductive Boundaries

Reproductive Boundaries examines the shifting boundaries of prenatal care in Switzerland, focusing on the Pregnancy Support Center's innovative psychosocial model. By redefining the territory of care, the…

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Edmée Ballif
Reproductive Boundaries

Reproductive Boundaries examines the shifting boundaries of prenatal care in Switzerland, focusing on the Pregnancy Support Center's innovative psychosocial model. By redefining the territory of care, the…

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Emily Mendenhall
Invisible Illness

A moving cultural history of disability--and a powerful call to action to change how our medical system and society supports those with complex chronic conditionsFrom lupus to Lyme, invisible illness is o…

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Christine Sargent
Making Down Syndrome

Making Down Syndrome: Motherhood and Kinship Futures in Urban Jordan draws on ethnographic research conducted primarily in Jordan's capital city of Amman to explore how the label and identity of Down synd…

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Lily N Shapiro
Connective Tissue

An ethnography of factory accidents and their attendant reconstructive plastic surgeries in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, Connective Tissue explores notions of risk, work and labor practices, and the way meanin…

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Lily N Shapiro
Connective Tissue

An ethnography of factory accidents and their attendant reconstructive plastic surgeries in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, Connective Tissue explores notions of risk, work and labor practices, and the way meanin…

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Eric Klinenberg
2020

A meticulously reported, character-driven, unforgettable investigation of a time when nothing was certain and everything was at stake, by the acclaimed sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg …

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Beth Linker
Slouch

The strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern America---from eugenics and posture pageants to today's promoters of "paleo posture"In 1995, a scandal erupt…

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Andrew C Willford
Modernity and Malevolence in the Psychiatric Clinic

Modernity and Malevolence in the Psychiatric Clinic is a richly detailed ethnographic study of clinical care at NIMHANS, India's leading mental health institution, offering rich observations of patient-ph…

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Cutter Wood
Earthly Materials

Bill Bryson's The Body meets Mary Roach's Gulp (with a dash of What's Your Poo Telling You? )in this rollicking and delightfully educational tour of our bodily emissions?from mucus to sweat to poop?reveal…

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Natasha Hakimi Zapata
Another World Is Possible

A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book Real-world solutions to America's thorniest social problems-from housing to retirement to drug addiction--based on original reporting from around the worldA new genera…

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Oliver Sacks
Musicophilia

From the bestselling author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.

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Rachel Douglas-Jones
Committee Worlds

Medical research is a global endeavor; a complex network of international drugs trials and data collection in the pursuit of novel treatments. And the Asia-Pacific region is considered an ideal "mark…

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Rebecca N Thompson
Held Together

"A primary care physician's moving memoir of navigating a complicated path to motherhood, interwoven with the stories of twenty-one of her patients, friends, and medical colleagues-and sharing the in…

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Jadwiga Guerrero van der Meijden
The Making of Human Dignity in Christian Antiquity

Contexts of Ancient and Medieval Anthropology - Band 9

The book examines the late ancient history of one pivotal concept of contemporary culture, that of human dignity, with the view to identifying the moment in history when European culture worked out a syst…

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