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| 1. |  | Title: The romance of American psychology: political culture in the age of experts  Author: Herman, Ellen Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Social Science | American Studies | Politics | Psychology | United States History Publisher's Description: Psychological insight is the creed of our time. A quiet academic discipline two generations ago, psychology has become a voice of great cultural authority, informing everything from family structure to government policy. How has this fledgling science become the source of contemporary America's most . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: A finger in the wound: body politics in quincentennial Guatemala Author: Nelson, Diane M 1963- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American Studies | Latin American History Publisher's Description: Many Guatemalans speak of Mayan indigenous organizing as "a finger in the wound." Diane Nelson explores the implications of this painfully graphic metaphor in her far-reaching study of the civil war and its aftermath. Why use a body metaphor? What body is wounded, and how does it react to apparent f . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: When walking fails: mobility problems of adults with chronic conditions Author: Iezzoni, Lisa I Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Medicine | Health Care | Sociology | Public Policy Publisher's Description: Roughly one in ten adult Americans find their walking slowed by progressive chronic conditions like arthritis, back problems, heart and lung diseases, and diabetes. In this passionate and deeply informed book, Lisa I. Iezzoni describes the personal experiences of and societal responses to adults who . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Listening in the silence, seeing in the dark: reconstructing life after brain injury Author: Johansen, Ruthann Knechel 1942- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Medicine | Health Care | Autobiographies and Biographies | Medical Anthropology | Psychiatry Publisher's Description: Traumatic brain injury can interrupt without warning the life story that any one of us is in the midst of creating. When the author's fifteen-year-old son survives a terrible car crash in spite of massive trauma to his brain, she and her family know only that his story has not ended. Their efforts, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Parables of sun light: observations on psychology, the arts, and the rest Author: Arnheim, Rudolf Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Art | Art Theory Publisher's Description: For many years Rudolf Arnheim, known as the leading psychologist of art, has been keeping notebooks in which to jot down observations, ideas, questions, and even (after a stay in Japan for a year) poems in the haiku pattern. Some of these notes found their way into his books - known and prized the w . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Surviving freedom: after the Gulag Author: Bardach, Janusz Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | European Studies | Sociology | Politics | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Autobiography Publisher's Description: In 1941, as a Red Army soldier fighting the Nazis on the Belarussian front, Janusz Bardach was arrested, court-martialed, and sentenced to ten years of hard labor. Twenty-two years old, he had committed no crime. He was one of millions swept up in the reign of terror that Stalin perpetrated on his o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Taming the wind of desire: psychology, medicine, and aesthetics in Malay shamanistic performance Author: Laderman, Carol Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | Medical Anthropology | Psychology | Southeast Asia | Medicine Publisher's Description: Charged with restoring harmony and relieving pain, the Malay shaman places his patients in trance and encourages them to express their talents, drives, personality traits - the "Inner Winds" of Malay medical lore - in a kind of performance. These healing ceremonies, formerly viewed by Western anthro . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Body work: beauty and self-image in American culture Author: Gimlin, Debra L 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Sociology | Gender Studies | American Studies Publisher's Description: Today women are lifting weights to build muscle, wrapping their bodies in seaweed to reduce unwanted water retention, attending weigh-ins at diet centers, and devoting themselves to many other types of "body work." Filled with the voices of real women, this book unravels the complicated emotional an . . . [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: 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 |
| 11. |  | Title: The naturalness of religious ideas: a cognitive theory of religion Author: Boyer, Pascal Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Philosophy | Psychology Publisher's Description: Why do people have religious ideas? And why those religious ideas? The main theme of Pascal Boyer's work is that important aspects of religious representations are constrained by universal properties of the human mind-brain. Experimental results from developmental psychology, he says, can explain wh . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: In one's own shadow: an ethnographic account of the condition of post-reform rural China Author: Liu, Xin 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology | China Publisher's Description: China underwent a dramatic social transformation in the last decade of the twentieth century. This powerful ethnographic study of one community focuses on the logic of everyday practice in post-reform rural China. Enriched with many vivid anecdotes describing life in the village of Zhaojiahe in nort . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: When a doctor hates a patient, and other chapters in a young physician's life Author: Peschel, Richard E Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Medicine | Science Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Strong mothers, weak wives: the search for gender equality Author: Johnson, Miriam M Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Sociology | Psychology | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: A leading theorist in the sociology of sex and gender, Miriam Johnson establishes as her starting point the belief that inequality is not inherent or inevitable in heterosexual relations. In Strong Mothers, Weak Wives she develops this notion by examining how gender differences get translated into g . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Twilight zones: the hidden life of cultural images from Plato to O.J Author: Bordo, Susan 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Sociology | Popular Culture | Politics | Social and Political Thought | Gender Studies | Media Studies Publisher's Description: Considering everything from Nike ads, emaciated models, and surgically altered breasts to the culture wars and the O.J. Simpson trial, Susan Bordo deciphers the hidden life of cultural images and the impact they have on our lives. She builds on the provocative themes introduced in her acclaimed work . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Claiming the high ground: Sherpas, subsistence, and environmental change in the highest Himalaya Author: Stevens, Stanley F Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Geography | Cultural Anthropology | Tibet Publisher's Description: Stanley Stevens brings a new historical perspective to his remarkably well-researched study of a subsistence society in ever-increasing contact with the outside world. The Khumbu Sherpas, famous for their mountaineering exploits, have frequently been depicted as victims of the world's highest-altitu . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Who survives cancer? Author: Greenwald, Howard P Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Sociology | Environmental Studies | Medicine Publisher's Description: FACT OR FICTION? *A white male earning over $35,000 a year has a better chance of surviving most types of cancer than an unemployed African-American male.*Psychological factors predispose people to contracting cancer and improved emotional health promotes recovery.*Early detection is useless in curi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Customers and patrons of the mad-trade: the management of lunacy in eighteenth-century London: with the complete text of John Monro's 1766 case book Author: Andrews, Jonathan 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | History of Science | Psychology | Social Problems | Psychiatry Publisher's Description: This book is a lively commentary on the eighteenth-century mad-business, its practitioners, its patients (or "customers"), and its patrons, viewed through the unique lens of the private case book kept by the most famous mad-doctor in Augustan England, Dr. John Monro (1715-1791). Monro's case book, c . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Remaking the modern: space, relocation, and the politics of identity in a global Cairo Author: Ghannam, Farha 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: In an effort to restyle Cairo into a global capital that would meet the demands of tourists and investors and to achieve President Anwar Sadat's goal to modernize the housing conditions of the urban poor, the Egyptian government relocated residents from what was deemed valuable real estate in downto . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Disciplined hearts: history, identity, and depression in an American Indian community Author: O'Nell, Theresa DeLeane 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Native American Ethnicity | Native American Studies Publisher's Description: "This is a good place for your work. Depression is a big problem here. About 70-80% of our people are depressed." When she arrived at the Flathead Reservation in Montana to start an ethnographic study of depression, medical anthropologist Theresa DeLeane O'Nell repeatedly encountered such statements . . . [more] Similar Items |