Published January, 2016
By Sabine Hildebrandt and William E. Seidelman
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Of the many medical specializations to have been transformed by the rise of National Socialism, anatomy has received little attention. As historian & physician Sabine Hildebrandt reveals, anatomists progressed through gradual stages of ethical transgression.

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Published October, 2015
By Timothy E. Pytell
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Viktor Frankl was a psychiatrist and philosopher who survived the Holocaust and went on to found the third school of Viennese psychotherapy. By critically examining the details of his intellectual life, including some previously unknown biographical details, we can begin to see the fascinating ambiguities and contradictions in Frankl's thought.

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Published October, 2015
By Megan McCullough, Jessica Hardin, Megan B. McCullough, Jessica A. Hardin and Stephen T. McGarvey
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In the crowded and busy arena of obesity and fat studies, there is a lack of attention to the lived experiences of people, how and why they eat what they do, and how people in cross-cultural settings understand risk, health, and bodies. This volume addresses the lacuna by drawing on ethnographic methods and analytical emic explorations.

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Published October, 2015
By Aref Abu-Rabia
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Modern medicine has penetrated Bedouin tribes in the course of rapid urbanization and education, but when serious illnesses strike, particularly in the case of incurable diseases, even educated people turn to traditional medicine for a remedy. Over the course of 30 years, the author gathered data on traditional Bedouin medicine...

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Published September, 2015
By Kate Hampshire and Bob Simpson
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Published September, 2015
By Marcia C. Inhorn and Soraya Tremayne
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This path-breaking volume explores the influence of Islamic attitudes on Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) and reveals the variations in both the Islamic jurisprudence and the cultural responses to ARTs.

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Published July, 2015
By David Prendergast and Chiara Garatini
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Breaking new ground in the study of technology and aging, this book examines how developments in smart phones, the internet, cloud computing, and online social networking are redefining experiences and expectations around growing older in the twenty-first century.

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Published June, 2015
By Merve Demircioglu Goknar and Merve Demircioglu Goeknar
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Managing social relationships for childless couples in pro-natalist societies can be a difficult art to master. With ethnographic research gathered in northwestern Turkey, this book explores infertility & assisted reproductive technologies within a secular Muslim population & how social experience leads to a decision for (or against) having an IVF.

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Published June, 2015
By Andrea Whittaker
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In Thailand, infertility remains a source of stigma for those couples that combine a range of religious, traditional and high-tech interventions in their quest for a child. This book explores this experience of infertility and the pursuit and use of assisted reproductive technologies by Thai couples.

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Published March, 2015
By Daniel Joseph Walther and Daniel J. Walther
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In responding to the perceived threat posed by venereal diseases in Germany's colonies, doctors took a biopolitical approach that employed medical and bourgeois discourses of modernization, health, productivity, and morality. Their goal was to change the behavior of targeted groups, or at least to isolate infected individuals from the healthy...

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