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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Published April, 2014
By Peter Wade, Ricardo Ventura Santos, Carlos Lopez Beltran and Eduardo Restrepo
Publisher: Duke University Press
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Based on ethnographic research in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, this title explores how the concepts of race, ethnicity, nation, and gender enter into and are affected by genomic research. It involves relations between European men and indigenous or African women, gender is a key factor in Latin American genomics and the analyses in this book.

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Published April, 2014
By Peter Wade, Ricardo Ventura Santos, Carlos Lopez Beltran and Eduardo Restrepo
Publisher: Duke University Press
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Based on ethnographic research in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, this title helps you explore how the concepts of race, ethnicity, nation, and gender enter into and are affected by genomic research.

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Published February, 2014
By Catherine Waldby and Melinda Cooper
Publisher: Duke University Press
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Forms of embodied labor, such as surrogacy and participation in clinical trials, are central to biomedical innovation, but they are rarely considered as labor. This book examines the rapidly expanding transnational labor markets surrounding assisted reproduction and experimental drug trials.

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Published February, 2014
By Catherine Waldby and Melinda Cooper
Publisher: Duke University Press
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Forms of embodied labor, such as surrogacy and participation in clinical trials, are central to biomedical innovation, but they are rarely considered as labor. This book examines the rapidly expanding transnational labor markets surrounding assisted reproduction and experimental drug trials.

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Published November, 2013
By Sarah Franklin
Publisher: Duke University Press
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Sarah Franklin explores the history and future of in vitro fertilization (IVF) thirty-five years and five million babies after its initial success as a form of technologically-assisted human reproduction.

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Published November, 2013
By Sarah Franklin
Publisher: Duke University Press
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Sarah Franklin explores the history and future of in vitro fertilization (IVF) thirty-five years and five million babies after its initial success as a form of technologically-assisted human reproduction.

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Published November, 2013
By Rafael Campo
Publisher: Duke University Press
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In this new collection of poetry, the acclaimed gay Latino physician author Rafael Campo continues his nuanced examination of the primal relationship between language, empathy, and healing.

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Published November, 2013
By Rafael Campo
Publisher: Duke University Press
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In this new collection of poetry, the acclaimed gay Latino physician author Rafael Campo continues his nuanced examination of the primal relationship between language, empathy, and healing.

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Published October, 2013
By Charlotte Biltekoff
Publisher: Duke University Press
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This social and cultural history of key moments in U.S. dietary reform illuminates the relations between prevailing notions of what it means to "eat right" and conceptions of morality and citizenship.

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