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| 1. |  | Title: The worth of a child Author: Murray, Thomas H 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Philosophy | Ethics | Medicine | Social Problems | Public Policy Publisher's Description: Thomas Murray's graceful and humane book illuminates one of the most morally complex areas of everyday life: the relationship between parents and children. What do children mean to their parents, and how far do parental obligations go? What, from the beginning of life to its end, is the worth of a c . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Should I be tested for cancer?: maybe not and here's why Author: Welch, H. Gilbert Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Medicine | Health Care | Disease Publisher's Description: Getting tested to detect cancer early is one of the best ways to stay healthy - or is it? In this lively, carefully researched book, a nationally recognized expert on early cancer detection challenges one of medicine's most widely accepted beliefs: that the best defense against cancer is to always t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Just doctoring: medical ethics in the liberal state  Author: Brennan, Troyen A Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Philosophy | Ethics | Medicine Publisher's Description: Just Doctoring draws the doctor-patient relationship out of the consulting room and into the middle of the legal and political arenas where it more and more frequently appears. Traditionally, medical ethics has focused on the isolated relationship of physician to patient in a setting that has left t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: The mind's past Author: Gazzaniga, Michael S Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Science | Psychology | Cognitive Science | Neuroscience Publisher's Description: Why does the human brain insist on interpreting the world and constructing a narrative? In this ground-breaking work, Michael S. Gazzaniga, one of the world's foremost cognitive neuroscientists, shows how our mind and brain accomplish the amazing feat of constructing our past - a process clearly fra . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Evolution's rainbow: diversity, gender, and sexuality in nature and people Author: Roughgarden, Joan Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Gender Studies | EcologyEvolutionEnvironment | Anthropology | Evolution | Health Care | Social Problems | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | Social Problems Publisher's Description: In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality in animals and humans, Joan Roughgarden challenges accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation. A distinguished evolutionary biologist, Roughgarden takes on the medical establishment, the Bible, social scie . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Twice dead: organ transplants and the reinvention of death Author: Lock, Margaret M Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Ethics | Sociology | Sociology | Ethics | Sociology | Ethnic Studies | Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: Tales about organ transplants appear in mythology and folk stories, and surface in documents from medieval times, but only during the past twenty years has medical knowledge and technology been sufficiently advanced for surgeons to perform thousands of transplants each year. In the majority of cases . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: What I learned in medical school: personal stories of young doctors Author: Takakuwa, Kevin M Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Medicine | Sociology | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | Anthropology | Health Care Publisher's Description: Like many an exclusive club, the medical profession subjects its prospective members to rigorous indoctrination: medical students are overloaded with work, deprived of sleep and normal human contact, drilled and tested and scheduled down to the last minute. Difficult as the regimen may be, for those . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Managing the medical arms race: public policy and medical device innovation Author: Foote, Susan Bartlett Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Medicine | Public Policy | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: The allure of medical innovation is powerful - it holds out the promise of perfect health, the end of pain, the deferral of death. Our insatiable appetite for costly new technologies, fed by a profusion of innovations and the profits they generate, has led to what has been dubbed the medical arms ra . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Under the medical gaze: facts and fictions of chronic pain Author: Greenhalgh, Susan Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Medical Anthropology | Physical Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Medicine | Gender Studies | Sociology | Social Problems | Social Problems Publisher's Description: This compelling account of the author's experience with a chronic pain disorder and subsequent interaction with the American health care system goes to the heart of the workings of power and culture in the biomedical domain. It is a medical whodunit full of mysterious misdiagnosis, subtle power play . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Paths to Asian medical knowledge Author: Leslie, Charles M 1923- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Asian Studies Publisher's Description: Like its classic predecessor, Asian Medical Systems , Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge significantly expands the study of Asian medicine. These essays ask how patients and practitioners know what they know - what evidence of disease or health they consider convincing and what cultural traditions and . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Targeting autism: what we know, don't know, and can do to help young children with autism and related disorders Author: Cohen, Shirley Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology | Social Problems | Education | Psychology | Psychiatry | Medicine Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Life without disease: the pursuit of medical utopia Author: Schwartz, William B 1922- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Science | Medicine | Economics and Business | History and Philosophy of Science | Public Policy Publisher's Description: The chaotic state of today's health care is the result of an explosion of effective medical technologies. Rising costs will continue to trouble U.S. health care in the coming decades, but new molecular strategies may eventually contain costs. As life expectancy is dramatically extended by molecular . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Workers against work: labor in Paris and Barcelona during the popular fronts Author: Seidman, Michael (Michael M.) Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Social Science | French Studies | Labor Studies Publisher's Description: Why did a revolution occur in Spain and not in France in 1936? This is the key question Michael Seidman explores in his important new study of the relations between industrial capitalists and working-class movements in the early part of this century. In a comparative analysis of Paris during the Pop . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: From the fat of our souls: social change, political process, and medical pluralism in Bolivia Author: Crandon-Malamud, Libbet Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American Studies | Politics | Medical Anthropology | Medicine Publisher's Description: From the Fat of Our Souls offers a revealing new perspective on medicine, and the reasons for choosing or combining indigenous and cosmopolitan medical systems, in the Andean highlands. Closely observing the dialogue that surrounds medicine and medical care among Indians and Mestizos, Catholics and . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Searching for life: the grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the disappeared children of Argentina Author: Arditti, Rita 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Sociology | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: FROM THE BOOK :"I want to touch you and kiss you.""You are my mother's sister and only one year older; you must have something of my mother in you." - A found child after being returned to her family Searching for Life traces the courageous plight of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a group of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: The blood of strangers: stories from emergency medicine Author: Huyler, Frank 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Medicine | American Literature | Autobiography Publisher's Description: Reminiscent of Chekhov's stories, The Blood of Strangers is a visceral portrayal of a physician's encounters with the highly charged world of an emergency room. In this collection of spare and elegant stories, Dr. Frank Huyler reveals a side of medicine where small moments - the intricacy of suturin . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Understanding heart disease Author: Selzer, Arthur Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Medicine | Science Publisher's Description: Diseases of the heart are the leading cause of death in the Western world. Health professionals and the general public alike eagerly watch advances in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of heart disease. Yet the more spectacular aspects of medical progress in the field are often reported prema . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Popular music and national culture in Israel Author: Regev, Motti Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Music | Ethnomusicology | Middle Eastern Studies | Popular Culture | Jewish Studies Publisher's Description: A unique Israeli national culture - indeed, the very nature of "Israeliness" - remains a matter of debate, a struggle to blend vying memories and backgrounds, ideologies and wills. Identifying popular music as an important site in this wider cultural endeavor, this book focuses on the three major po . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Working families: the transformation of the American home Author: Hertz, Rosanna Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Sociology | Social Problems | Anthropology | Economics and Business | Urban Studies | Ethnic Studies | Politics | Politics Publisher's Description: The dynamics of work and parenthood are in the midst of a revolutionary shift in the United States. Focused around a major factor in this shift - the rise of dual-income families - this groundbreaking volume provides a highly informative snapshot of the intricate fabric of work and family in the Uni . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: China's new voices: popular music, ethnicity, gender, and politics, 1978-1997 Author: Baranovitch, Nimrod 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Music | China | Popular Music | Ethnomusicology | Politics | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: This is the most comprehensive study to date of the rich popular music scene in contemporary China. Focusing on the city of Beijing and drawing upon extensive fieldwork, China's New Voices shows that during the 1980s and 1990s, rock and pop music, combined with new technologies and the new market ec . . . [more] Similar Items |