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Killer commodities

Author : Merrill Singer,Hans A. Baer
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759112407

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Killer commodities by Merrill Singer,Hans A. Baer Pdf

Killer Commodities enters the increasingly heated debate regarding consumer culture with a critical examination of the relationship between corporate production of goods for profit and for public health. This collection analyzes the nature and public health impact of a wide range of dangerous commercial products from around the world, and it addresses the question of how policies should be changed to better protect the public, workers, and the environment.

Killer Commodities

Author : Michael C Thomsett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781440533778

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Killer Commodities by Michael C Thomsett Pdf

With the stock market as unpredictable as the economy, many investors believe the commodities market presents a less volatile, and more predictable, investment opportunity. In clear, accessible language, commodities expert Michael C. Thomsett explains each of these investment strategies as it relates to specific commodities, such as crude oil, wheat and other grains, precious metals, basic and luxury food items, and foreign currency exchange.

Killer Commodities

Author : Michael Thomsett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1137347297

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Killer Commodities by Michael Thomsett Pdf

With the stock market as unpredictable as the economy, many investors believe the commodities market presents a less volatile, and more predictable, investment opportunity. In clear, accessible language, commodities expert Michael C. Thomsett explains each of these investment strategies as it relates to specific commodities, such as crude oil, wheat and other grains, precious metals, basic and luxury food items, and foreign currency exchange. Michael C. Thomsett writes on trading and investing topics, and has published over 70 books, including five additional options books. He has been writing since 1978 and fulltime since 1984. Among his books is the best-selling Getting Started in Options (Wiley, over 250,000 copies sold). He has appeared on network TV such as CNN, ABC, and Fox News . Thomsett lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Visit his website at www.MichaelThomsett.com.

A Companion to Medical Anthropology

Author : Merrill Singer,Pamela I. Erickson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118863213

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A Companion to Medical Anthropology by Merrill Singer,Pamela I. Erickson Pdf

A Companion to Medical Anthropology examines the current issues, controversies, and state of the field in medical anthropology today. Provides an expert view of the major topics and themes to concern the discipline since its founding in the 1960s Written by leading international scholars in medical anthropology Covers environmental health, global health, biotechnology, syndemics, nutrition, substance abuse, infectious disease, and sexuality and reproductive health, and other topics

Eldercare, Health, and Ecosyndemics in a Perilous World

Author : Janelle Christensen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759123946

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Eldercare, Health, and Ecosyndemics in a Perilous World by Janelle Christensen Pdf

Humans are at a unique crossroads: never before have we had such a clear understanding of how our actions affect a changing climate, or how our settlement patterns along coastal environments put us at risk of rising sea levels. However, the science behind climate change (and solutions for it) are engulfed in political controversy. Dr. Christensen uses anthropological methods to illuminate the lived experience of families caring for elder relatives during climate related events: a unique conundrum facing increasing numbers of people living in coastal areas. As populations in industrialized countries grow older, they become more vulnerable to climate extremes. People over 65 are more likely to die in climate related events, such as heatwaves, hurricanes, and blizzards. Dr. Christensen presents the scientific evidence for climate change, the archaeological record on how humans responded to climatic shifts in the past, and explains how the current challenges are different. Using the theoretical framework of Singer’s Syndemics, she explores how aging bodies are more vulnerable to increased environmental toxins, which is further exacerbated by climate fluctuations. A central question is: how do we value our environment, our elders, and make decisions about well-being throughout the life course?

Drugging the Poor

Author : Merrill Singer
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478610243

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Singer offers a fresh set of ideas for understanding how the global socioeconomic system insures that massive quantities of psychotropic drugs reach the poorest sectors of American society. Drugging the Poor provides a unified theoretical framework to assess how all drugs, including tobacco, heroin, alcohol, cocaine, and diverted pharmaceuticals contribute to maintaining social inequality among the wealthier and poorer social classes in American society. Singers analysis rejects conventional approaches that see tobacco or alcohol manufacturers and distributors, on the one hand, and drug cartels and mafias, on the other, as completely different entities. Instead, he shows how legal and illegal drug corporations share key features and follow the same economic principles. He also emphasizes that mixing legal and illegal drugs to self-medicate against social discrimination, poverty, and structural violence offers short-term relief, but in the long run, it functions to maintain an unjust and oppressive system. Drugging the Poor actively challenges the assumption that how things are is how they always have been or how they need to be.

Introducing Medical Anthropology

Author : Merrill Singer,Hans Baer,Debbi Long,Alex Pavlotski
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781538106471

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Introducing Medical Anthropology by Merrill Singer,Hans Baer,Debbi Long,Alex Pavlotski Pdf

Introducing Medical Anthropology, Third Edition, is intended for use in the medical anthropology course taught primarily at four year universities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Social Justice and Medical Practice

Author : Merrill Singer,Rebecca Allen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351621533

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Social Justice and Medical Practice by Merrill Singer,Rebecca Allen Pdf

How do we understand and respond to the pressing health problems of modern society? Conventional practice focuses on the assessment and clinical treatment of immediate health issues presented by individual patients. In contrast, social medicine advocates an equal focus on the assessment and social treatment of underlying social conditions, such as environmental factors, structural violence, and social injustice. Social Justice and Medical Practice examines the practice of social medicine through extensive life history interviews with a physician practicing the approach in marginalized communities. It presents a case example of social medicine in action, demonstrating how such a practice can be successfully pursued within the context of the existing structure of twenty-first-century medicine. In examining the experience of a physician on the frontlines of reforming health care, the book critiques the restrictive nature of the dominant clinical model of medicine and argues for a radically expanded focus for modern-day medical practice. Social Justice and Medical Practice is a timely intervention at a time when even advanced health care systems are facing multiple crises. Lucidly written, it presents a striking alternative and is important reading for students and practitioners of medicine and anthropology, as well as policy makers.

Anthropology of Tobacco

Author : Andrew Russell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781351050173

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Tobacco has become one of the most widely used and traded commoditites on the planet. Reflecting contemporary anthropological interest in material culture studies, Anthropology of Tobacco makes the plant the centre of its own contentious, global story in which, instead of a passive commodity, tobacco becomes a powerful player in a global adventure involving people, corporations and public health. Bringing together a range of perspectives from the social and natural sciences as well as the arts and humanities, Anthropology of Tobacco weaves stories together from a range of historical, cross-cultural and literary sources and empirical research. These combine with contemporary anthropological theories of agency and cross-species relationships to offer fresh perspectives on how an apparently humble plant has progressed to world domination, and the consequences of it having done so. It also considers what needs to happen if, as some public health advocates would have it, we are seriously to imagine ‘a world without tobacco’. This book presents students, scholars and practitioners in anthropology, public health and social policy with unique and multiple perspectives on tobacco-human relations.

Teaching Africa

Author : Brandon D. Lundy,Solomon Negash
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780253008299

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Teaching Africa by Brandon D. Lundy,Solomon Negash Pdf

“A valuable resource [with] useful ideas about how to . . . enhance student engagement with the continent, and expand Africa’s presence within the curriculum.” —Stephen Volz, Kenyon College Teaching Africa introduces innovative strategies for teaching about Africa. The contributors address misperceptions about Africa and Africans, incorporate the latest technologies of teaching and learning, and give practical advice for creating successful lesson plans, classroom activities, and study abroad programs. Teachers in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences will find helpful hints and tips on how to bridge the knowledge gap and motivate understanding of Africa in a globalizing world.

The Professional Guinea Pig

Author : Roberto Abadie
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822393245

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The Professional Guinea Pig documents the emergence of the professional research subject in Phase I clinical trials testing the safety of drugs in development. Until the mid-1970s Phase I trials were conducted on prisoners. After that practice was outlawed, the pharmaceutical industry needed a replacement population and began to aggressively recruit healthy, paid subjects, some of whom came to depend on the income, earning their living by continuously taking part in these trials. Drawing on ethnographic research among self-identified “professional guinea pigs” in Philadelphia, Roberto Abadie examines their experiences and views on the conduct of the trials and the risks they assume by participating. Some of the research subjects he met had taken part in more than eighty Phase I trials. While the professional guinea pigs tended to believe that most clinical trials pose only a moderate health risk, Abadie contends that the hazards presented by continuous participation, such as exposure to potentially dangerous drug interactions, are discounted or ignored by research subjects in need of money. The risks to professional guinea pigs are also disregarded by the pharmaceutical industry, which has become dependent on the routine participation of experienced research subjects. Arguing that financial incentives compromise the ethical imperative for informed consent to be freely given by clinical-trials subjects, Abadie confirms the need to reform policies regulating the participation of paid subjects in Phase I clinical trials.

The Divide

Author : Taylor Dotson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262542715

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Why our obsession with truth--the idea that some undeniable truth will make politics unnecessary--is driving our political polarization. In The Divide, Taylor Dotson argues provocatively that what drives political polarization is not our disregard for facts in a post-truth era, but rather our obsession with truth. The idea that some undeniable truth will make politics unnecessary, Dotson says, is damaging democracy. We think that appealing to facts, or common sense, or nature, or the market will resolve political disputes. We view our opponents as ignorant, corrupt, or brainwashed. Dotson argues that we don't need to agree with everyone, or force everyone to agree with us; we just need to be civil enough to practice effective politics. Dotson shows that we are misguided to pine for a lost age of respect for expertise. For one thing, such an age never happened. For another, people cannot be made into ultra-rational Vulcans. Dotson offers a road map to guide both citizens and policy makers in rethinking and refashioning political interactions to be more productive. To avoid the trap of divisive and fanatical certitude, we must stop idealizing expert knowledge and romanticizing common sense. He outlines strategies for making political disputes more productive: admitting uncertainty, sharing experiences, and tolerating and negotiating disagreement. He suggests reforms to political practices and processes, adjustments to media systems, and dramatic changes to schooling, childhood, the workplace, and other institutions. Productive and intelligent politics is not a product of embracing truth, Dotson argues, but of adopting a pluralistic democratic process.

Resilience, Environmental Justice and the City

Author : Beth Schaefer Caniglia,Manuel Vallee,Beatrice Frank
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317311881

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Resilience, Environmental Justice and the City by Beth Schaefer Caniglia,Manuel Vallee,Beatrice Frank Pdf

Urban centres are bastions of inequalities, where poverty, marginalization, segregation and health insecurity are magnified. Minorities and the poor – often residing in neighbourhoods characterized by degraded infrastructures, food and job insecurity, limited access to transport and health care, and other inadequate public services – are inherently vulnerable, especially at risk in times of shock or change as they lack the option to avoid, mitigate and adapt to threats. Offering both theoretical and practical approaches, this book proposes critical perspectives and an interdisciplinary lens on urban inequalities in light of individual, group, community and system vulnerabilities and resilience. Touching upon current research trends in food justice, environmental injustice through socio-spatial tactics and solution-based approaches towards urban community resilience, Resilience, Environmental Justice and the City promotes perspectives which transition away from the traditional discussions surrounding environmental justice and pinpoints the need to address urban social inequalities beyond the build environment, championing approaches that help embed social vulnerabilities and resilience in urban planning. With its methodological and dynamic approach to the intertwined nature of resilience and environmental justice in urban cities, this book will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners within urban studies, environmental management, environmental sociology and public administration.