Divided Bodies

Divided Bodies
Title Divided Bodies PDF eBook
Author Abigail A. Dumes
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 192
Release 2020-08-24
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1478007397

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While many doctors claim that Lyme disease—a tick-borne bacterial infection—is easily diagnosed and treated, other doctors and the patients they care for argue that it can persist beyond standard antibiotic treatment in the form of chronic Lyme disease. In Divided Bodies, Abigail A. Dumes offers an ethnographic exploration of the Lyme disease controversy that sheds light on the relationship between contested illness and evidence-based medicine in the United States. Drawing on fieldwork among Lyme patients, doctors, and scientists, Dumes formulates the notion of divided bodies: she argues that contested illnesses are disorders characterized by the division of bodies of thought in which the patient's experience is often in conflict with how it is perceived. Dumes also shows how evidence-based medicine has paradoxically amplified differences in practice and opinion by providing a platform of legitimacy on which interested parties—patients, doctors, scientists, politicians—can make claims to medical truth.

The Morally Divided Body

The Morally Divided Body
Title The Morally Divided Body PDF eBook
Author Michael Root
Publisher Wipf and Stock Publishers
Pages 157
Release 2012-09-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 1610977645

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At the same time as Catholic and evangelical Christians have increasingly come to agree on issues that divided them during the sixteenth-century reformations, they seem increasingly to disagree on issues of contemporary "morality" and "ethics." Do such arguments doom the prospects for realistic full communion between Catholics and evangelicals? Or are such disagreements a new opportunity for Catholics and evangelicals to convert together to the triune God's word and work on the communion of saints for the world? Or should our hope be different than simple pessimism or optimism? In this volume, eight authors address different aspects of these questions, hoping to move Christians a small step further toward the visible unity of the church.

The Body Divided

The Body Divided
Title The Body Divided PDF eBook
Author Sarah Ferber
Publisher Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Pages 264
Release 2011
Genre History
ISBN 075469481X

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Human remains have long been considered valuable material for use in medical science. Over time and in different places, they have been dissected, investigated, harvested for research purposes, collected to turn into museum specimens, and more. This book examines the history of such activities.

Dangerously Divided

Dangerously Divided
Title Dangerously Divided PDF eBook
Author Zoltan Hajnal
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 375
Release 2020-01-02
Genre History
ISBN 1108487009

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Race, more than class or any other factor, determines who wins and who loses in American democracy.

Estimation of the Time Since Death

Estimation of the Time Since Death
Title Estimation of the Time Since Death PDF eBook
Author Burkhard Madea
Publisher CRC Press
Pages 292
Release 2015-09-08
Genre Law
ISBN 1444181777

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Estimation of the Time Since Death remains the foremost authoritative book on scientifically calculating the estimated time of death postmortem. Building on the success of previous editions which covered the early postmortem period, this new edition also covers the later postmortem period including putrefactive changes, entomology, and postmortem r

Contagious Divides

Contagious Divides
Title Contagious Divides PDF eBook
Author Nayan Shah
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 400
Release 2001-10-29
Genre Medical
ISBN 0520226291

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"Nayan Shah has written a book of exceptional originality and importance. With a focus on issues of body, family, and home, central concerns of urban health reform, he illuminates the role of political leaders, public opinion, and professionals in the construction and reconstruction of race and the making of citizens in San Francisco. He brilliantly analyzes the politics of the movement from exclusion to inclusion, regulation to entitlement, showing it to be an interactive process. Yet, as he shows with great subtlety, the mark of race remains. As a study of citizenship and difference, this work speaks to a central theme of American history."—Thomas Bender, Director of the International Center for Advanced Studies at NYU, and editor of Rethinking American History in a Global Age Contagious Divides is an ambitious contribution to our understanding of the troubled history of race in America. Nayan Shah offers new insight into the ways that race was inscribed on the streets, the bodies, and the institutions of San Francisco's Chinatown. Above all, he offers powerful examples of the impact of ideas about disease, sexuality, and place on the rhetoric and practice of racial inequality in modern America.—Thomas J. Sugrue, author of The Origins of the Urban Crisis

The Master and His Emissary

The Master and His Emissary
Title The Master and His Emissary PDF eBook
Author Iain McGilchrist
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 615
Release 2019-03-26
Genre Psychology
ISBN 0300245920

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A new edition of the bestselling classic – published with a special introduction to mark its 10th anniversary This pioneering account sets out to understand the structure of the human brain – the place where mind meets matter. Until recently, the left hemisphere of our brain has been seen as the ‘rational’ side, the superior partner to the right. But is this distinction true? Drawing on a vast body of experimental research, Iain McGilchrist argues while our left brain makes for a wonderful servant, it is a very poor master. As he shows, it is the right side which is the more reliable and insightful. Without it, our world would be mechanistic – stripped of depth, colour and value.