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      East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan: Varieties of Medical Experience

      Margaret M. Lock

      Based on fieldwork conducted in Japan during 1973 and 1974, this study deals with the philosophical foundations and historical development of East Asian medicine, Japanese attitudes regarding health, illness, and…

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      Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America

      Margaret M. Lock

      This text compares North American and Japanese medical and political accounts of female middle age, together with narratives given by Japanese women, to challenge Western assumptions about menopause.

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      Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death

      Margaret M. Lock

      Traces the discourse that contributed to the locating of a different criterion of death in the brain, and its routinization in clinical practice in North America. This book demonstrates that…

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      East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan: Varieties of Medical Experience

      Margaret M. Lock

      Based on fieldwork conducted in Japan during 1973 and 1974, this study deals with the philosophical foundations and historical development of East Asian medicine, Japanese attitudes regarding health, illness, and…

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      Knowledge, Power, and Practice: The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life

      The contributors to this study of medical anthropology examine the contexts in which all socially and culturally constructed knowledge is produced and practised in medicine, psychiatry, epidemiology and anthropology.

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      Can Science Resolve the Nature / Nurture Debate?

      Margaret Lock,Gisli Palsson

      Following centuries of debate about nature and nurture the discovery of DNA established the idea that nature (genes) determines who we are, relegating nurture (environment) to icing on the cake.

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      Can Science Resolve the Nature / Nurture Debate?

      Margaret Lock,Gisli Palsson

      Following centuries of debate about nature and nurture the discovery of DNA established the idea that nature (genes) determines who we are, relegating nurture (environment) to icing on the cake.

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      An Anthropology of Biomedicine 2e

      M Lock,Vinh-Kim Nguyen

      Edition History: Margaret Lock and Vinh-Kim Nguyen (1e, 2010) published by Blackwell Ltd. –T.p. verso.

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      Social Suffering

      Social Suffering takes in the human consequences of war, famine, depression, disease and torture, problems that result from what political, economic and institutional power does to people. Experts have joined…

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      Remaking a World: Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery

      This third volume on social suffering, violence and recovery explores the ways communities cope with traumatic and other more insidious forms of violence, addressing the effects of violence at the…

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      International Resource Book for Libraries Serving Disadvantaged Persons

      Joanne Locke,Nancy M. Panella

      The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice…

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      The Empiricists: Critical Essays on Locke, Berkeley, and Hume

      A collection of essays on the work of John Locke, George Berkeley and David Hume, designed to provide a deeper understanding of major issues raised in the empiricist tradition. It…

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