Published May, 2015
By Sharon R. Kaufman
Publisher: Duke University Press
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Sharon R. Kaufman examines the quandary of patients, families and doctors not knowing the point where enough medical treatment becomes too much treatment. A hidden chain of drivers among science, industry, new technology, and insurance spur this quandary, serving to obscure the ability to identify the difference between extraordinary and ordinary medicine.

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Published April, 2015
By Sarah S. Richardson and Hallam Stevens
Publisher: Duke University Press
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The contributors to Postgenomics assess the changes to the life sciences the Human Genome Project's completion brought, develop new frameworks for studying the human genome in the postgenomic era, and show how the environment, technology, race, and gender influence the genome and how we think about it.

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Published April, 2015
By Sarah S. Richardson and Hallam Stevens
Publisher: Duke University Press
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The contributors to "Postgenomics" assess the changes to the life sciences the Human Genome Project's completion brought, develop new frameworks for studying the human genome in the postgenomic era, and show how the environment, technology, race, and gender influence the genome and how we think about it.

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Published March, 2015
By Everett Yuehong Zhang
Publisher: Duke University Press
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In this ethnography of impotence as a medical and social phenomenon, Everett Yuehong Zhang argues that the recent increase in Chinese men seeking treatment for impotence represents a shift in changing sexual attitudes in capitalist China.

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Published March, 2015
By Everett Yuehong Zhang
Publisher: Duke University Press
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In this ethnography of impotence as a medical and social phenomenon, Everett Yuehong Zhang argues that the recent increase in Chinese men seeking treatment for impotence represents a shift in changing sexual attitudes in capitalist China.

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Published January, 2015
By Paul Wenzel Geissler
Publisher: Duke University Press
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Published January, 2015
By Paul Wenzel Geissler
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Published November, 2014
By Susan Reynolds Whyte
Publisher: Duke University Press
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During the first decade of this millennium, many thousands of people in Uganda who otherwise would have died from AIDS got second chances at life. The essays in Second Chances draw on personal accounts and a broad knowledge of Ugandan culture and history to explore antiretroviral therapy from the perspective of those people.

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Published November, 2014
By Susan Reynolds Whyte
Publisher: Duke University Press
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During the first decade of this millennium, many thousands of people in Uganda who otherwise would have died from AIDS got second chances at life. The essays in Second Chances draw on personal accounts and a broad knowledge of Ugandan culture and history to explore antiretroviral therapy from the perspective of those people.

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Published October, 2014
By Alice Street
Publisher: Duke University Press
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This ethnography shows how the struggle to practice clinical medicine in a resource-strapped public hospital in Papua New Guinea is complicated by the attempts of doctors, nurses, and patients to make themselves visible to others-kin, clinical experts, global scientists, politicians, and international development workers-as socially recognizable and valuable persons.

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