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Cold War America, 1946 To 1990
Uses statistical tables, charts, photographs, maps, and illustrations to explore everyday life in the United States during the Cold War period.
Diagnostic Fluidity
Diagnostic procedures are emblematic of medical work. Scholars in the field of social studies of medicine identify diverse dimensions of diagnosis that point to controversies, processual qualities and contested evidence. In this anthology, diagnostic fluidity is seen to permeate diagnostic work in a wide range of contexts, from medical interactions in the clinic, domestic settings and other relations of affective work, to organizational structures, and in historical developments. The contributors demonstrate, each in their own way, how different agents ‘do diagnosis’, highlighting the multi-faceted elements of uncertainty and mutability integral to diagnostic work. At the same time, the contributors also show how in ‘doing diagnosis’ enactments of subjectivities, representations of cultural imaginaries, bodily processes, and socio-cultural changes contribute to configuring diagnostic fluidity in significant ways.
Global Perspectives on ADHD
Examining ADHD and its social and medical treatments around the world. Attention deficithyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been a common psychiatric diagnosis in both children and adults since the 1980s and 1990s in the United States. But the diagnosis was much less common—even unknown—in other parts of the world. By the end of the twentieth century, this was no longer the case, and ADHD diagnosis and treatment became an increasingly widespread global phenomenon. As the diagnosis was adopted around the world, the definition and treatment of ADHD often changed in the context of different psychiatric professions, medical systems, and cultures. Global Perspectives on ADHD is the first book t...
Epidemics and Othering
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the lives of many people around the globe and has brought to the fore discussions about the ways in which relations of power have shaped human biology and the health of populations. Focusing on these biopolitics, this collection brings together a number of historical and cultural perspectives on processes of othering in the long transnational human history of epidemics and pandemics. Contributors explore the intertwinement of biopolitics and othering with regard to specific bodies, people, and places, in relation to COVID-19 and beyond, as they discuss othering dynamics in the context of post/colonialism and with reference to a number of different cultural, political, medical and media discourses.
The Illustrated History of Women's Golf
A history of women's golf featuring the remarkable women who have played it.
Social Representations for the Anthropocene: Latin American Perspectives
The Anthropocene has become a field of studies in which the influence of human activity on the Earth System and nature is both the main threat and the potential solution. Social Representations Theory has been evolving since the 1960s.It links knowledge and practice in everyday life and is an effective way to deal with systemic crises based on common sense. This book assembles key contributions by Latin American scholars working with social representations in the social sciences that are of conceptual relevance to the study of the Anthropocene and that investigate the societal consequences of complex interrelations between common sense and topics of global relevance, such asthe contradiction...
An Illusion of Equity
Public education plays a crucial role in crafting a nation's future. In the United States, education reform policy, particularly the reliance on large-scale, standardized testing, is a growing topic of national conversation and concern. An Illusion of Equity: The Legacy of Eugenics in Today's Education demonstrates how centuries of propaganda have led us to accept the idea that test scores indicate something so valuable about human beings that they should be used to organize society. Drawing on decades of experience as an educator, author Wendy Zagray Warren unpacks the origins of this practice, inviting us to probe the ideologies underlying testing procedures and score interpretation and to...
Cuidado e vulnerabilidade de pessoas com deficiências e pessoas idosas
Esta coletânea é fruto do "II Seminário Internacional Interdisciplinar: Cuidado e Vulnerabilidade das Pessoas com Deficiências e Pessoas Idosas", realizado nos dias 30 de novembro e 1o de dezembro de 2022, em colaboração com o Ministério Público do Rio de Janeiro e com o apoio do CNPq. Os diversos capítulos oferecem contribuições relevantes para a compreensão mais profunda dos temas do cuidado e da vulnerabilidade dessas pessoas, sob uma abordagem teórico-interdisciplinar. Nessa medida, este livro promove o diálogo entre direito, ética, sociologia e assistência social, explorando suas semelhanças e diferenças teóricas. Com um enfoque igualmente prático, esta obra busca enriquecer as discussões em torno desses temas nos Estudos de Deficiências e de Pessoas Idosas. Além disso, objetiva estimular o ativismo pelos direitos, destacando as experiências e narrativas dessas pessoas e suas comunidades. Destina-se, por isso, tanto àquele(a)s envolvido(a)s na academia com esses temas quanto aos/às profissionais que trabalham na defesa, proteção e prestação de direitos desses grupos.
