Troubling Natural Categories

Author : Naomi Adelson,Leslie Butt,Karina Kielmann
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773589087

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Troubling Natural Categories by Naomi Adelson,Leslie Butt,Karina Kielmann Pdf

Where do our conventional understandings of health, illness, and the body stem from? What makes them authoritative? How are the boundaries set around these areas of life unsettled in the changing historical and political contexts of science, technology, and health care delivery? These questions are at the heart of Troubling Natural Categories, a collection of essays honouring the tradition of Margaret Lock, one of the preeminent medical anthropologists of our time. Throughout her career, Lock has investigated how medicine sets boundaries around what is deemed "normal" and "natural," and how, in turn, these ideas shape our technical and moral understandings of life, sickness, and death. In this book, nine established medical anthropologists - all former students of Lock - critically engage with her work, offering ethnographic and historical analyses that problematize taken-for-granted constructs in health and medicine in a range of global settings. The essays elaborate cutting-edge themes within medical anthropology, including the often disturbing, inherently political nature of biomedicine and biotechnology, the medicalization of mental health processes, and the formation of uniquely "local biologies" through the convergence of bodily experience, scientific discourse, and new technologies of care. Troubling Natural Categories not only affirms Margaret Lock's place at the forefront of scholarship but, with these essays, carves out new intellectual directions in the medical social sciences. Contributors include Sean Brotherton, Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Junko Kitanaka, Stephanie Lloyd, Dominique Behague, and Annette Leibing.

Author : Elizabeth D. Whitaker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315451718

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The Trouble with Human Nature by Elizabeth D. Whitaker Pdf

The Trouble with Human Nature brings together biological and cross-cultural evidence to critically examine common preconceptions and challenge popular assumptions about human nature. It sets out to counter genetic and evolutionary myths about human variation and behavior, drawing on both biological and cultural anthropology, as well as from other disciplines including psychology, economics, and sociology. The chapters address the interrelated topics of health and disease, gender and other differences, and violence and conflict. The analysis calls into question the presumed natural foundation for social inequalities and sheds light on both the constraints and possibilities inherent in the human condition. This book provides students of human diversity and evolution with an excellent resource to better approach questions relating to human nature. It will also be of interest to those taking courses in social, cultural, and biological anthropology, as well as public health, medical anthropology, sociology, gender studies, psychology, and kinship studies.

Author : Roger N. Lancaster
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0520236203

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The Trouble with Nature by Roger N. Lancaster Pdf

Lancaster provides the disproof of evolutionary stories about men, women, and the nature of desire of the heterosexual fables that pervade popular culture, from prime-time sitcoms to scientific theories about the so-called gay gene.

Author : Kes Gray
Publisher : Random House
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781448198474

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Daisy and the Trouble with Nature by Kes Gray Pdf

The BRAND NEW laugh-out-loud new Daisy adventure, from bestselling author of the Oi Frog series, Kes Gray. Here comes trouble! Daisy and her class are so excited when their new school nature garden is unveiled. But the trouble with their nature garden is, there's not very much nature in it. There are NO: Birds Butterflies Grizzly Bears Wolverines If there's one thing Daisy HATES it's waiting. Especially waiting for nature to appear. Luckily, she's going camping with Gabby, and will find LOTS of nature to bring back. Only, the trouble with nature is, it's really hard to control...

Author : Amelie Baumann
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839457313

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Becoming Donor-Conceived by Amelie Baumann Pdf

While it has been argued that anonymity in gamete donation has been brought to an end by legal changes and technological developments, Amelie Baumann suggests that this is in fact still in transformation. By focusing on the narratives of those who were conceived with anonymously donated gametes in the UK and Germany, she examines this transformative process and the role which donor-conceived persons play in it. This book shows that it is not someone's decision to procreate that turns »being donor-conceived« into a meaningful categorisation. Rather, kinship knowledge gets activated by the donor-conceived in specific ways for »being donor-conceived« to become a powerful identification.

Author : Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0674910192

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The Trouble with Science by Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar Pdf

Robin Dunbar asks whether science really is unique to Western culture, even to humankind. He suggests that our "trouble with science" may lie in the fact that evolution has left our minds better able to cope with day-to-day social interaction than with the complexities of the external world.

Author : E. M. Beekman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015037162412

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Troubled Pleasures by E. M. Beekman Pdf

This is the first comprehensive examination of Dutch colonial literature in English. From the journals and travelogues produced by the early mariners, to the fictional recollections of repatriated colonials after the Second World War, E. M. Beekman's unique and magisterial survey of this major colonial literature places literary figures within specific epochs, provides biographical portraits, and examines works in relation not only to their own genres but also to the literatures and cultures beyond their colonial borders. Written by the leading authority in the field, this fascinating and wide-ranging study is enhanced by a consideration of the general political history of European expansion and of the Dutch East Indies.

Author : Elaine Craig
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780774821827

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Troubling Sex by Elaine Craig Pdf

When legal scholars or judges approach the subject of sexuality, they are often constrained by existing theoretical frameworks. Queer theorists typically focus on sexual liberty but tend not to consider issues such as sexual violence; feminist theories focus on violence but often ignore the joy of sexuality. Craig examines the Supreme Court of Canada’s approach to sexuality to assess the possibility of devising a legal theory of sexuality that can embrace both the good and the bad, ensuring equality without assimilation, diversity without exclusion, and liberty without suffering. Blending feminist theory with queer theory, she advances an iconoclastic approach to law and sexuality that has the power to transform both theory and practice.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35558005481706

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Vital and Health Statistics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCSD:31822041009556

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The Western Humanities Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : John CUMMING (D.D., Minister of the Scottish National Church, Crown Court.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017179498

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The Seventh Vial, Or the Time of Trouble Begun, as Shown in the Great War, the Dethronement of the Pope, and Other Collateral Events by John CUMMING (D.D., Minister of the Scottish National Church, Crown Court.) Pdf

Author : Donna J. Haraway
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822373780

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Staying with the Trouble by Donna J. Haraway Pdf

In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene, as it more aptly and fully describes our epoch as one in which the human and nonhuman are inextricably linked in tentacular practices. The Chthulucene, Haraway explains, requires sym-poiesis, or making-with, rather than auto-poiesis, or self-making. Learning to stay with the trouble of living and dying together on a damaged earth will prove more conducive to the kind of thinking that would provide the means to building more livable futures. Theoretically and methodologically driven by the signifier SF—string figures, science fact, science fiction, speculative feminism, speculative fabulation, so far—Staying with the Trouble further cements Haraway's reputation as one of the most daring and original thinkers of our time.

Author : Robert H. Hamill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UVA:X002013894

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Plenty and Trouble by Robert H. Hamill Pdf

Analysis and forecast of the impact of technology on human life and environment, with particular reference to the philosophy of the Christian Church thereon. Bibliography pp. 185 to 189 and references.

Author : Amy Lind,Stephanie Brzuzy
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015076147506

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Battleground: M-Z by Amy Lind,Stephanie Brzuzy Pdf

Whether in the home or in the public arenas of media, work, sports, politics, art or religion, women often become embroiled as subjects in the political, social, and cultural debates in America. People on all areas of the political landscape see women in diverse and conflicting ways -- as either too liberated or not liberated enough, or whether and how gender and sexual roles are rooted in either biology or culture. Battleground: Women, Gender, and Sexuality helps readers navigate contemporary issues and debates pertaining to women's lives in the United States and globally. This work examines how science and culture intertwine to influence how we think about our identities, desires, relationships, and societal roles today. Battleground: Women, Gender, and Sexuality comprises lengthy, in-depth discussions of the most timely issues that are debated in today's culture, such as: Birth Control BLComparable Worth BLDisability and Gender BLGlass Ceiling BLImmigration BLPlastic Surgery, Tatooing, and Piercing BLSame-Sex Marriage BLSexual Assault and Sexual Harrassment Each essay provides a balanced overview of these hot-button topics, and a list of works for Further Reading after each entry serves as a stepping-stone to more in-depth material for students who are writing papers or researching reports.

Author : Community Health and Welfare Council, Cincinnati
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Juvenile delinquency
ISBN : UOM:39015053789684

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Evaluation of the "Troubled Children Under Twelve" Project by Community Health and Welfare Council, Cincinnati Pdf