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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.
Ayahuasca: Between Cognition and Culture
This book summarizes Ismael Apud’s ethnographic research in the field of ayahuasca, conducted in Latin America and Catalonia over a period of 10 years. To analyze the variety of ayahuasca spiritual practices and beliefs, the author combines different approaches, including medical anthropology, cognitive science of religion, history of science, and religious studies. Ismael Apud is a psychologist and anthropologist from Uruguay, with a PhD in Anthropology at Universitat Rovira i Virgili.
Of Bodies and Symptoms
The question of the social treatment of the body and its transformations emerges in relation to issues of varying types (economic, therapeutic, ideological, cultural, aesthetic,commercial, technical). This book examines the various ways of managing bodily symptoms or transformations and the social stakes and systems of knowledge which relate to them, both on the medical and social level. The contributions provide analyses that concern a broad range of countries. Through the themes it tackles and the subjects it examines, this book reveals both the universal nature of the questions it asks, and the evolution of the objects and approaches of anthropology itself.
Contemporary Pediatrics
Book Contemporary Pediatrics with its 17 chapters will help get us and patients enlightened with the new developments on the contemporary pediatric issues. In this book volume, beyond classical themes, a different approach was made to current pediatric issues and topics. This volume, as understood from its title, describes nutritional infant health and some interesting topics from pediatric subspecialties such as cardiology, hemato-oncology and infectious diseases.
Migraciones y salud
Este volumen recoge 28 aportaciones que giran alrededor de diferentes aspectos y problemáticas del sistema de salud que la migración ha puesto de relieve. Estos van desde el estudio de las teorías y políticas de migración hasta el análisis de casos concretos en Europa, África y América Latina, así como algunas aportaciones internacionales de caràcter teórico y comparativo. El núcleo inicial del libro fueron las aportaciones al Coloquio de REDAM (la red de antropología médica española) celebrado en Murcia en 2004, revisados en 2008, al que se han añadido otras aportaciones de especialistas sobre este campo.
Medical Anthropology in Europe
This handbook to existing medical anthropology programs at the undergraduate and postgraduate level in Europe is designed for students who are looking for suitable training and professionals who are looking for expertise in the field.
Tro Ressonant
El llibre que el lector té a les mans ha estat considerat una fita de l’etnologia que inaugurà per alguns el gènere —literari i antropològic— de narratives autobiogràfiques dels indis americans. L’etnòleg Paul Radin, amb el seu característic esperit de mostrar-nos la cultura del winnebago “tal com ells i elles eren”, va ser l’artífex d’aquesta fita. Es tracta d’un text extraordinàriament vívid que ens endinsa en el món cultural d’aquest grup ètnic a partir de l’experiència d’un dels seus individus, en un escenari de profunds canvis i transformacions socials. L’objectiu de Radin va ser copsar el món emocional d’un indígena americà des del seu propi punt de vista, intentant eliminar les interferències de l’etnògraf i mantenint el llenguatge col·loquial.
