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Competing Orders of Medical Care in Ethiopia
Based on Pino Schirripa’s fieldwork, Competing Orders of Medical Care in Ethiopia traces the development of pharmaceutical products and medical remedies in the health sector. Schirripa analyzes the production and distribution of medications and examines how local politics, financial resources, social relations, and neoliberal beliefs can make some treatments more widespread and accepted than others. Schirripa’s observations of Ethiopian healing systems and social relations provide new insight into the complex process of prescription.
Gender at Sea
For centuries seafaring people thought that the presence of women on board would mean bad luck: rough weather, shipwreck, and other disasters were sure to follow. Because of these beliefs and prejudices women were supposedly excluded from the maritime domain. In the field of maritime history too, the ship and the sea have predominantly been perceived as a space for men. This volume of the Yearbook of Women’s History challenges these notions. It asks: to what extent were the sea and the ship ever male-dominated and masculine spaces? How have women been part of seafaring communities, maritime undertakings, and maritime culture? How did gender notions impact life on board and vice versa? From a multidisciplinary perspective, this volume moves from Indonesia to the Faroe Islands, from the Mediterranean to Newfoundland; bringing to light the presence of women and the workings of gender on sailing, whaling, steam, cruise, passenger, pirate, and navy ships. As a whole it demonstrates the diversity and the agency of women at sea from ancient times to the present day.
La cura delle donne
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MATHERA 5 - Anno II - Rivista trimestrale di storia e cultura del territorio
Pubblichiamo materiale inedito sui temi di storia e cultura delle regioni di Puglia e Basilicata. Gli articoli sono redatti con metodo scientifico e con spirito divulgativo. Le riviste pubblicate da almeno un anno sono liberamente scaricabili in pdf.
Disaster Narratives in Early Modern Naples
This volume deals with natural disasters in late medieval and early modern central and southern Italy. Contributions look at a range of catastrophic events such as eruptions of Mount Vesuvius, floods, earthquakes, and outbreaks of plague and epidemics. A major aim of this volume is to investigate the relationship between catastrophic events and different communication strategies that embraced politics, religion, propaganda, dissent, scholarship as well as collective responses from the lower segments of society. The contributors to this volume share a multidisciplinary approach to the study of natural disasters which draws on disciplines such as cultural and social history, anthropology, literary theory, and linguistics. Together with analyzing the prolific production of propagandistic material and literary sources issued in periods of acute crisis, the documentation on disasters studied in this volume also includes laws and emergency regulations, petitions and pleas to the authorities, scientific and medical treatises, manuscript and printed newsletters as well as diplomatic dispatches and correspondence.
Anna Maria Ortese
Anna Maria Ortese: Celestial Geographies features a selection of essays by established Ortese scholars that trace her remarkable creative trajectory.
From Curing to Caring
I progressi medici degli ultimi decenni hanno trasformato le prospettive per le persone che ancora oggi convivono con l’HIV la cui aspettativa di vita media, se la cura è precoce e continuativa, risulta notevolmente incrementata. Tali rilevanti progressi hanno modificato anche la percezione dello stato di salute che non è più vissuto come una sentenza di morte. Tuttavia l’AIDS è ancora causa di morte nei paesi più poveri del mondo e continua a generare stigma e a produrre esclusione, discriminazione e marginalità sociale un po’ ovunque. Inoltre il numero di persone nel mondo che vivono con questa infezione è in aumento da un decennio, anche come conseguenza della riduzione delle...
Corpo medico e corpo femminile
Passaggi fondamentali che riguardano la vita delle donne e il corpo femminile (comparsa del ciclo mestruale, scelte contraccettive, gravidanza, parto, riproduzione assistita, arrivo della menopausa e fine della possibilità di procreare) sono fenomeni determinati socialmente oltre che biologicamente. Il mancato riconoscimento dell'influenza esercitata dal contesto sociale, culturale e psicologico-affettivo sulla formazione/percezione di questi eventi corporei ha favorito l'eccessiva medicalizzazione degli stessi e ha fatto sì che le definizioni bio-mediche si imponessero sopravanzando la voce delle protagoniste. Occorre quindi un'analisi che, anche attraverso il confronto con culture divers...
